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Foi no início do mês de maio que a Ciência recebeu a notícia da morte do neurocientista Fernando Lopes da Silva.

Licenciado em medicina pela Universidade de Lisboa, em 1959, Lopes da Silva juntou-se, em 1965, à equipa científica do Grupo de Investigação do Cérebro na Holanda e obteve seu Ph.D. em neurofisiologia pela Universidade de Utrecht em 1970.

Em Portugal, Fernando Lopes da Silva foi nomeado, em 2000, professor visitante da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa e foi, desde 2005, docente do Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, com a função principal de organizar, promover e estimular uma estreita ligação entre a engenharia e a medicina através de um novo curso em engenharia biomédica.

Entre os prémios e reconhecimentos em Portugal está a atribuição de vários títulos de doutor honoris causa: em 1997, pela Universidade de Lisboa, em 2002 pela Universidade do Porto. Em 2000, o Presidente da República Jorge Sampaio concedeu-lhe o grande-colar de oficial da Ordem de Santiago da Espada, por notáveis realizações no campo da ciência, arte e literatura. Em 2004 recebeu o Prémio Universidade de Coimbra para “pessoa de nacionalidade portuguesa que tenha dado um contributo relevante e inovador nos campos da cultura ou da ciência”.

A nível internacional, também foram várias as distinções.

Era o atual Presidente do júri da Fundação Bial para a Biomedicina, responsabilidade agora assumida por Maria do Carmo Fonseca, Professora da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Presidente do Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes e mantendo-se Vice-Presidente do Júri da Bial.

Recorde o seu vasto currículo, neste artigo do jornal Público.

Fotos: Bial

Prof. Doutor Antero Manuel Guimarães da Palma-Carlos

1933-2019

(Professor Catedrático Jubilado de Imuno-Alergologia da FMUL)

É com profundo pesar que comunicamos a todos os colaboradores e alunos da FMUL o falecimento do Senhor Prof. Doutor A. Palma-Carlos, antigo Professor Jubilado de Imuno-Alergologia da nossa Escola.

A Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa apresenta os sentidos pêsames à família e amigos do Senhor Prof. Doutor A. Palma-Carlos.

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Antero da Palma-Carlos era o “pai da imunoalergologia” em Portugal
O Presidente da República recorda-o como “uma referência da medicina” portuguesa e “admirável exemplo de uma vida dedicada ao serviço da comunidade”.

O médico e fundador do Centro de Diagnóstico e Tratamento em Alergologia, Imunologia Clínica e Medicina Interna, Antero da Palma-Carlos, morreu na quinta-feira, em Lisboa, aos 86 anos de idade. O Presidente da República lamenta a perda de uma “referência da medicina” portuguesa.
“Especialista de renome mundial na especialidade de Imunoalergologia, Antero da PalmaCarlos fundou a primeira consulta hospitalar de Imunoalergologia de Portugal no Hospital de Santa Maria em Lisboa em 1961 e foi o responsável pela criação da Especialidade de Imunoalergologia em 1983”, lê-se no comunicado disponibilizado por Amélia Spínola Santos e Anabela Lopes, duas colegas médicas.
O “pai da imunoalergologia” em Portugal nasceu a 21 de Março de 1933 e era filho de Adelino da Palma-Carlos, professor de Direito e primeiro-ministro do I Governo Provisório de Portugal, e de Elina Guimarães, jurista, escritora e activista dos direitos das mulheres.

O corpo esteve em câmara ardente na Igreja de Santa Joana Princesa, em Lisboa, na sextafeira, e o funeral realiza-se este sábado às 14h15 para o Cemitério dos Olivais.
Professor catedrático jubilado de Medicina Interna, Imunoalergologia e Imunologia da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, foi director de serviço de Medicina do Hospital de Santa Maria, especialista em Medicina Interna e Imunoalergologia, director da Unidade de Imunoalergologia neste hospital e coordenador das áreas de Imunologia, Imunologia Clínica, Imunoalergologia e Medicina Interna da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa.
A nível internacional, de acordo com a nota, Palma-Carlos presidiu à International Association of Asthmology (Interasma) e à Foundation for Allergy Research in EuropeFARE. Foi vice-presidente da EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology).
Foi também presidente e presidente honorário do Board of Allergology da Union Européenne des Médicins Spécialistes (UEMS) e do Comité de Especialidades e Ensino da European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, e presidiu ainda à Sociedade Portuguesa de Alergologia e Imunologia Clínica (SPAIC) e à Sociedade Luso-Brasileira de Alergologia e Imunologia (SLBAIC).
Cavaleiro da Ordem Nacional de Mérito francesa, o médico foi agraciado com a Medalha de Ouro da Universidade de Nagoya, no Japão, e a Medalha de Ouro da Sociedade Portuguesa de Alergologia e Imunologia Clínica.
Presidente: “admirável exemplo
O Presidente da República recordou Antero da Palma-Carlos como “uma referência da medicina” portuguesa e “admirável exemplo de uma vida dedicada ao serviço da comunidade”.
Antero da Palma-Carlos é um “exemplo maior de médico humanista, especialista de renome mundial no campo da imunoalergologia” que deixa uma “vasta obra científica e, acima de tudo, uma marca indelével em milhares de discípulos da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa”, lê-se na mensagem de Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa publicada no site da Presidência da República.
O Presidente sublinhou ainda que o médico “cultivou as artes e a música, com destaque para a ópera, sobre a qual escreveu textos luminosos, que deslumbram pela densidade do saber, pela clareza da escrita e pelo seu profundo sentido humano”.
Ao longo da sua carreira, entre 1960 e 2017, Antero da Palma-Carlos publicou mais de 800 trabalhos científicos, tendo ainda tempo, nos últimos anos, para escrever sobre a sua grande paixão, a ópera – que, aliás, chegou a ser a banda sonora das suas consultas no consultório que mantinha em Lisboa.

in Jornal Público (30.03.2019)

Prof. Doutor Carlos Filipe de Aguilar Manso

1924-2019

(Professor Catedrático Jubilado de Bioquímica da FMUL)

Informamos toda a comunidade académica do falecimento do Senhor Prof. Doutor Carlos Manso, Professor Catedrático Jubilado de Bioquímica da FMUL.

O Prof. Carlos Manso  licenciou-se na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa em 1948 e doutorou-se em 1968 com a tese “A Desidrogenase da Glucose-6-fosfato nos glóbulos vermelhos dos Bantos de Moçambique”.

Professor de Bioquímica da FMUL, tornou esta cátedra independente da Química Fisiológica e criou no laboratório da sua cadeira um sector em que a ciência enzimática teve grande florescimento.

Foi Presidente do Conselho Diretivo da FMUL em 1975-1976  e foi também docente convidado na Universidade de Lourenço Marques.

A Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa apresenta os sentidos pêsames à família e amigos do Senhor Professor Carlos Manso.

Dr. Luís Filipe Diniz Cabral Caldeira

1956-2019

A Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa e todos os seus colaboradores, apresentam os sentidos pêsames à família e amigos do Diretor do Serviço de Doenças Infeciosas do Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Dr. Luís Filipe Diniz Cabral Caldeira, cujo falecimento ocorreu dia 29 de janeiro de 2019.

O Dr. Luís Caldeira, Docente convidado da FMUL, exerceu funções no Serviço de Doenças Infeciosas do CHULN desde Julho de 1991 até à presente data, sendo Diretor do Serviço, desde Outubro de 2014.

A Direção da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa e todos os seus colaboradores, apresentam os sentidos pêsames à família e amigos da Dr.ª Anabela Maria Rebelo Morais, docente convidada da FMUL e médica do CHLN – Departamento de Pediatria.

The Direction of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon offers its heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Professor José Manuel Cortez Pimentel, who passed away on October 7, 2018.

Retired Full Professor of the FMUL, Professor José Manuel Cortez Pimentel was Director of the Pathological Anatomy Department of the Faculty and the Santa Maria Hospital from 1978 to 1993. Successor of Jorge Horta, he was also one of the main disciples of F. Wohlwill. Throughout his professional career in the area of anatomo-pathology, he devoted special attention to the anatomo-pathology of pulmonary diseases, and was a pioneer in identifying some of these anatomo-clinical entities.

Prof. Doutor J. M. Cortez Pimentel

Dr. Helena Lopes da Silva, Physician, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, passed away on September 8, at 69 years of age.

Remembrance Ceremony 

On September 11, at 7 pm, a ceremony in her honour was held at the João Lobo Antunes Auditorium, in the Egas Moniz Building.

The ceremony was attended by the Presidents of the Republic of Portugal and Cape Verde, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Jorge Carlos Fonseca, among other leading figures.

Born in Cape Verde in 1949, Helena Lopes da Silva graduated in Medicine in Portugal where she worked as a surgeon and university professor. She always remained in close contact with Cape Verde, being a member of its Council of State.

Article on FMUL’s webpage with photos of the Remembrance Ceremony.

We note with deep regret that Professor José Manuel Vieira Barbas, former Professor of Nephrology at our Faculty, has passed away.

The funeral took place on August 25, at the Lumiar Cemetery.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon offers its heartfelt condolences to Professor José Manuel Vieira Barbas’ family and friends.

The former Minister of Social Affairs António Arnaut, founder of the National Health Service and co-founder of the Socialist Party (PS), has died in Coimbra, at the age of 82.

Minister of the Second Constitutional Government, formed by a coalition between the PS and the CDS, he was assigned the portfolio of Social Affairs, having launched in this capacity the bases for the National Health Service.

He was awarded the rank of Grand-Official of the Order of Freedom on April 25, 2004, in the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the Revolution of April 25.

On April 7, 2016, during the celebrations of the Health Day, he was awarded the class of Grand-Cross of the Order of Freedom by the President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

In 2016, he was named honorary president of PS at the XX Congress of the Party, after the death of António de Almeida Santos.

Image credits:  National Health Service website

Professor João Ribeiro da Silva, Retired Full Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, passed away on 10 January.

A leading figure of Portuguese Ophthalmology, he succeeded Professor Augusto Lopes as Full Professor of Ophthalmology.

He was president of the Association of Medical Sciences and founded the Portuguese Academy of Medicine.

After retiring, he dedicated himself, among other areas, to Bioethics. He published an extensive body of work.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon offers its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Professor João Ribeiro da Silva.

Professor Carvalho Araújo, Retired Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and former Director of the Infectious Diseases Service of Santa Maria Hospital (1968-1992) died on 11 September 2017, aged 95.

Infectious diseases are in mourning due to the death of Professor Fernando Abreu de Carvalho Araújo on 11 September 2017 at 95 years of age, due to complications related to renal disease. In Portugal, the identity of infectious diseases owes a great deal to Professor Carvalho Araújo. He was responsible for the recognition of the creation of the Portuguese Association for Infectious Diseases (now the Portuguese Association for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology) and of the Portuguese Journal of Infectious Diseases (1985), as its first Director, by the Council of Specialty Physicians.

Professor Fernando Abreu de Carvalho Araújo graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon in 1950, and completed his PhD in 1965 with a thesis titled “Contribution for the study of toxoplasmosis in Portugal”. In this work, and for the first time, he advanced the possibility of the existence of a form of resistance to Toxoplasma gondii, which was identified later, and he also confirmed, for the first time, a case of toxoplasmosis acquired in Portugal.

At the time of his PhD, Professor Carvalho Araújo was 1st assistant of the Subject Infectious-Contagious Diseases Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon. In 1968, he was appointed Director of the Infectious Diseases Service of Santa Maria Hospital. In 1970 he became Assistant Professor and in 1973 he underwent a public examination to obtain the title of Associate Professor of Internal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, having later on become Full Associate Professor and, finally, Full Professor of the Faculty.

Professor Carvalho Araújo was a follower of the French School of Infectious Diseases and the various visits he made to some French scientific research and medical care establishments in Infectious Diseases, namely to the Institut Pasteur in Paris (Department of Virus Research and Department of Mycology Studies), to the Claude Bernard Hospital, “the largest French bastion known throughout Europe in the fight against infectious diseases”, to the Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital, and later to the Resuscitation Service of Claude Bernard Hospital enabled him to shape plans for a model of an autonomous Infectious Disease Service able to treat patients with common infectious diseases in the 1970s. It was a Herculean work that only achieved the objectives intended due to the vision and work capacity of Professor Carvalho Araújo – remodelling the Archive and the Library, which was enriched with the main books and journals  on infectious diseases, creation of the External Consultation of the Infectious Diseases Service “which represented an economy of more than 1,000 days/beds/year”, officialising the Internal Urgency and setting up the much needed Intensive Treatment Unit for Infectious Patients, which was named after him in recognition of the effort, dedication, spirit of dynamism, and high perception of the reality of the Grand Master of Infectiology in Portugal. He also laid the foundations for the creation of the Laboratory of Applied Microbiology at the Infectious-Contagious Diseases Service. His interest in toxoplasmosis motivated the establishment of a Toxoplasmosis Study Centre by the Ministry of Health and Assistance in 1969, which was housed, by agreement with Dr Arnaldo Sampaio, at the time Health Chief Inspector, in the facilities of the future Dr Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute.

Professor Carvalho Araújo left behind a vast number of published works, in addition to having created, in 1968, the magazine Medicina Hoje “for recent graduate doctors and those who live far from the large medical centres”. At the time, it was the only medical information journal published in Portugal, containing exclusively original scientific works by Portuguese doctors.

In this journal, the following doctors, among others, published articles: Ducla Soares, Arsénio Cordeiro, Fernando de Pádua, Celestino da Costa, Jorge Horta, Gouveia Monteiro, Ramos Lopes, Thomé Villar, Armando Porto, Girão do Amaral, Sales Luís, Palma Carlos, Pinto Correia, Norton Brandão, Mário Marques, Nazaré Vaz, Carneiro Chaves, Balcão Reis, Carneiro de Moura, Óscar Candeias, and Rui Proença. All of them great figures of Medical Education in Portugal.

One of the most ambitious projects of Professor Carvalho Araújo was the creation of a “Private Research Centre for the Infectious-Contagious Diseases Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon”, a project that came to fruition 40 years later with the creation of the Clinical Research and Integrated Treatment of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Infection Centre at the Infectious Diseases Service of Santa Maria Hospital in 2011.

Professor Carvalho Araújo was praised by the Chief Nurse of the Civil Hospitals of Lisbon in 1953 for his services at Santa Marta Hospital and by the Director General for Health in 1968 for his collaboration during the outbreak of typhoid fever in Alhandra.

Professor Carvalho Araújo was always grateful to all those who directed and guided him in his training, but he never forgot those who shared their professional life with him in the Contagious Diseases Service, later called Infectious Diseases Service, which he directed for 24 years (1968-1992). In this regard, he said: “I am proud to have such an excellent team, a united, conscious and enlightened team, highly specialized and extremely efficient, which gives me great satisfaction to work with”.

Professor Carvalho Araújo was governed by very rigorous ethical and professional principles in the performance of his medical and teaching duties and, in connection with his resignation as a lecturer at the School of Nursing of Santa Maria Hospital in 1970, he affirmed: “At this point, I must say that one of biggest reasons for resigning from my functions, was my almost frontal  opposition to the anachronistic programme imposed on me year after year and my disagreement, as a matter of principle, with the system of payment for the services actually rendered, a payment that is not very dignifying for those who teach, and much less for the institution that practices it”.

All those of us who benefitted from the teaching and familiarity of Professor Carvalho Araújo owe him a feeling of gratitude and the certainty that the recognition of Infectious Diseases in Portugal is due to his legacy, which we try to honour.

Francisco Antunes

Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine

Institute of Environmental Health

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon

Prof. Doutor Fernando Abreu de Carvalho Araújo

15 de março de 1922 – 11 de setembro de 2017
Professor Catedrático Jubilado da FMUL

A Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa e todos os seus colaboradores apresentam os sinceros pêsames a toda a família e amigos do Senhor Professor Doutor Fernando Abreu de Carvalho Araújo.

Prof. Doutor Gustavo José Correia Neves Nobre
8 de agosto de 1932 – 8 de agosto de 2017

A Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa e todos os seus Colaboradores apresentam os sinceros pêsames a toda a família e amigos do Sr. Professor Doutor Gustavo Nobre, Professor Catedrático Jubilado da nossa Escola.

The Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the North Lisbon Hospital Centre, represented by the Medical Academic Centre of Lisbon and by their highest leaders, express their deepest condolences to the family of eminent Professor João Lobo Antunes.

Professor João Lobo Antunes was a major multidisciplinary, national and international figure who, with solid knowledge and high intellectual capacities, covered areas as diverse as neurosciences, particularly neurosurgery, and ethics, among others. A brilliant academician, he was an unusually cultured man who wrote beautifully and stood out as an eminent neurosurgeon and a master of generations to whom he left a legacy of excellence. He was a tireless and dedicated physician to his patients.

With so many and different challenges from public and social life befalling him, he was able to face them all with natural elegance, kindness and commitment, ensuring their success and generously making outstanding contributions to the country.

The professional life of Professor João Lobo Antunes is mirrored indelibly in our institutions, in which he left pages of excellence, like the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, as one of the greatest masters of this prestigious Medical School, Hospital de Santa Maria, as one of its most distinguished neurosurgeons with unrivalled international reputation or, more recently, the Institute of Molecular Medicine, a project of his responsibility that soon saw its capacity and international excellence recognized as one of the most respected and innovative medical research centres.

Today, we honour the exceptional man who marked his generation and these institutions, which have lost him but which will know how to keep his exceptional legacy alive.

Lisbon and CAML, 27 October 2016

Professor Fausto J. Pinto – Director of the FMUL
Dr Carlos das Neves Martins – President of the Board of the CHLN
Professor Maria do Carmo Fonseca – President of the IMM

Professor António Maria Baptista Fernandes, a pioneer in Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics in Portugal, died on 17 October 2016 aged 98. Professor António Baptista Fernandes was the founder of the Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit of Santa Maria Hospital, the founder of the Clinic of Todos os Santos, as well as other pioneering initiatives in our country.

Check out his Biography here.

* Carlos Alberto Oliveira Nascimento – Rector’s Office of the University of Lisbon – Deceased on 7 October
* Joaquim Ferreira Santos Albuquerque – Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Surgery Unit II – Deceased on 18 October 2010
* M.ª Joaquina Moniz Bettencourt – Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Physiology Institute – Deceased on 20 October 2010