Richárd Bodor

Mihály Richárd “Ricky” Bodor was a freestyle and breaststroke sprinter who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Bodor settled in the United States after attending college at Stanford University, graduating in 1985 and helping them win the NCAA team title that year. He then went to medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

After medical school Bodor began an ophthalmology residency but then switched careers and did a residency in general surgery at Stanford and then in plastic surgery at the University of California at San Diego, finishing in 1999. He also did a hand and microsurgery fellowship at the Buncke Clinic in San Francisco from 1995-97. Bodor went into practice in San Diego on the staff of the VA Medical Center there and served as a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at UC San Diego.