Dr. Aldo Lo Curto
Laureate
"Voluntary doctor", working during 30 years in more than 25 developing countries
Italy
Rolex Awards, 2012
Physician Aldo Lo Curto has worked as a doctor in almost 40 countries in the past 20 years, putting himself at the service of humanity. This "volunteer travelling doctor" spends half the year in his medical practice in Canzo, in northern Italy, and the rest of his time healing, teaching and living among indigenous people on several continents. At the same time, he wants to bring indigenous holistic views of illness to the West in order "to humanise the relationship between doctor and patient".