On the 28th of May 2009, in a meeting of the Assembly of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Professor J. Fernandes e Fernandes was elected as Dean of the FMUL. The meeting of this Assembly was preceded by a Public Hearing ceremony within the scope of the candidature to the position of Dean of the FMUL, which may be seen on: http://stream.fm.ul.pt/Audicao_Publica_Director_FMUL Programme of Candidature to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Public Notice of proclamation of the Dean of the FMUL

Faculty Assembly  President of the Faculty Assembly – Professor J. Lobo Antunes On the 16th of April 2009, in a meeting of the Faculty Assembly, the following were elected unanimously as President of the Faculty Assembly, Professor João Lobo Antunes, and as Vice-President of the Faculty Assembly, Professor Fernando Lopes da Silva. The Assembly of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine is made up of the following members: Teachers and Researchers João Lobo Antunes Henrique Manuel Bicha Castelo José Manuel Domingos Pereira Miguel José Augusto Gamito Melo Cristino Francisco José Nunes Antunes José Manuel Morão Cabral Ferro Paulo Sérgio de Matos […]

It is with enormous satisfaction that we can announce that news@fmul has won the APCE 2009 Grand Prix – Excellence in Communication in the webletter category (candidature presented by the FMUL in partnership with SPIRITUC). The award ceremony took place at the Vodafone Auditorium on the 25th of May, where an independent jury decided upon the winners in the twenty categories from among 204 works proposed by sixty entrants. Since 2006 the Portuguese Association of Business Communication (APCE) has promoted this event, awarding prizes for the best works in communication among the most renowned companies in the several different categories. […]

On the 21st of May the Chancellor of the University of Lisbon, Professor António Nóvoa took the oath for his post. In the speech opening this ceremony, which was held in the Aula Magna of this University, the President of the General Council, Dr. Henrique Granadeiro, started out by saying that “this act of investiture of the Chancellor of the University of Lisbon (…) is a pioneering and hitherto unknown event. Pioneering because it is the first one that is being completed within the reform process outlined in the RJIES and complementary regulations. Hitherto unknown because it is the first […]

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) and the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) signed a protocol agreement to be set up on the 21st of May between the Portuguese state  (MCTES) and the University of Harvard, through the Harvard Medical School. This agreement defines a cooperation strategy between Medical Schools and Faculties, Associated Laboratories and Research and Development Institutions acting in theare of biomedical and health sciences on the Portuguese level and the Harvard Medical School, is foreseen to last for six years and involve a sum of up to 42 million euros. The aim of […]

On the 6th of May, in the Main Auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon the ceremony for the 13th Edition of the Bial Prize was held. The session was presided over by the President of the Republic of Portugal and awards were granted to the following works: Bial Grand Prix for Medicine: “A View of Medical Research in the New Era of Complexity” Author: Dr. Miguel Castelo-Branco Bial Prize for Clinical Medicine: “A New View of Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases: an example of interaction between cell and molecular biology and clinical practice” Authors: Professor João Eurico […]

The Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Teaching Prize 2009 is an initiative of the responsibility of the Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Foundation and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), and dates back to 1992. This award aims at annually distinguishing the student in the Integrated Masters Course in Medicine with the best results in the current curricular unit Module V.II – Internal Medicine, equivalent to the former subject of Medicine II, which it was considered most closely corresponded to the subject of Clinical Medicine for which Professor Francisco Pulido Valente, the patron of the prize was the […]

Each year we traditionally dedicate the month of May to preventing cardiovascular diseases. This year we can identify four challenges: 1 – The main aim of the campaigns that are emerging is to continue to make patients and the population in general aware of the importance of practising healthy lifestyles and of controlling the well-known modifiable risk factors (1). Among these one can highlight smoking, controlling blood pressure, a varied and healthy diet avoiding (or combating) dyslipidemia, obesity and diabetes, and also regular physical exercise (such as walking for thirty minutes at least three times per week). However, we are […]

On the 28th of April 2009, the Portuguese parliamentary journal, the Diário da República, published Dispatch n.º 10849/2009 which acknowledges the scientific nature of the activity carried out by the Association for research and Development of the Faculty of Medicine (AIDFM).