Dr. Ignacio Ponseti dies at 95; invented nonsurgical treatment for clubfoot

Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War who created a nonsurgical way of treating clubfoot in infants that prevented a lifetime of disability, died Oct. 18 at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinic. He was 95 and had suffered a stroke in his office at the university four days earlier.

By Thomas H. Maugh II

October 27, 2009