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Leopold Mark Waldenberg

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American surgeon.

Biography of Leopold Mark Waldenberg

Leopold Mark Waldenberg studied medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, and spent his internship at Yale-New Haven Medical Center and his residency at Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. He is a Diplomate, American Board of Surgery, Fellow American College of Surgeons. Waldenberg is Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

We thank Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.

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