The doctor who is part of the Gastroenterology service at the sanatorium is a legend of field hockey: the former goalkeeper was one of the founders of "Las Leonas" in Sydney 2000 and saved the decisive penalty to win the World Cup in Perth 2002.
Mariela Antoniska is a doctor and former Argentine field hockey player, goalkeeper for the national team, gold medal at the Pan American Games (1999 and 2003) and two Olympic medals (silver and bronze) at the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
She currently distributes her days in the public health system. Today Mariela is rotating in the Gastroenterology service at Hospital El Cruce and she also works at Hospital Garrahan.
For Argentine sports history, Antoniska is an absolute legend. She was a key player from the goal in the team that decided to be called "Leonas" in Sydney 2000 and today is a legacy for the national field hockey. And in 2002 she became a giant in the Perth World Cup against the Netherlands, the local and classic of the Argentine team, when she saved Fatima Moreira de Melo's penalty to give Argentina the consecration.
“I have been specializing in the bile duct in the Gastro service since the end of 2019. In Garrahan we began to see many patients with these pathologies and they needed someone to train. That's why I came to El Cruce to do the rotation and I'm really happy because it's an incredible place because you can see this pathology a lot. It is a hospital where you can learn and train. There are ten doctors and assistants” said Mariela at a break that she made at her work in El Cruce.
She shows that she established an excellent bond with her partners because they all joined in to her in the photos for this note. Mariela is a pediatrician and gastroenterologist and she knows effort, tenacity and commitment. She was a member of the national field hockey team for more than a decade.
“In my house they always instilled in me that I had to finish school besides playing hockey. That I must did what I liked but I had also to study. My uncle is a doctor and I am always interested in this profession. And well, when I finished high school and already playing in the Leonas team, I began my Medicine career at the UBA, I did it in parallel a little slower than the rest of my classmates. For all the commitments we had in the team and the trips. In 2007 I received my medical degree. I did the pediatric residency at the Posadas Hospital and then went to Garrahan. Until 2011 I continued playing in my club Lomas Atlhetic but with the guards it was complicated”.
Mariela is from Lomas de Zamora and she started playing hockey at the age of 10 and she did it continuously until she was 37 years old. At 33 she left the Argentine national team to dedicate herself completely to medicine.
Source: Hospital El Cruce
