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News # 13 | abr. 2010

Editorial Note

Faculty of Medicine – 100 Anos

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, which emerged as a continuation of the Lisbon Medical-Surgical School, founded by King Dom João VI, was created by the Government of the Republic Decree-Law of 22nd of April 1911 after the institutionalisation of the University of Lisbon in March of the same year – Decree nº 66, of the 22nd of March 1911 – in which was determined the creation of a university in Lisbon and one in Oporto. It was a historic date and a landmark in the politics of the Republic in the promoting of public education and […]

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The University of Lisbon is 100 years old

The origins of the Portuguese University are in its creation in Lisbon in 1288. The current structure of the University of Lisbon was established by parliamentary decree on the 22nd of March 1911, bringing together all the higher education studies courses that had appeared in Lisbon during the XIX century. It is a history of centuries that the University of Lisbon (UL) commemorates in 2011. The commemorations began this year and aim at reinforcing the University’s cohesion, divulging its cultural, museological and scientific heritage and promoting its name and future projects within society. The subjects for the commemorations for these […]

Day of the Faculty of Medicine

When | 30th of April 2010 Where | Faculty of Medicine | Egas Moniz Building – Main Auditorium The ceremony of the Day of the Faculty marks the official beginning of the commemorations of the centenary of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). The ceremony will be attended by several figures of note, among whom are the Chancellor of the University of Lisbon, Professor António Sampaio da Nóvoa; the Minister of Health, Dra. Ana Jorge; the Governing Bodies of the Faculty; President of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Professor J. Lobo Antunes, Chairman of the Board […]

FMUL Teacher receives the World Sleep Day Prize 2010

The World Sleep Day Prize 2010 was awarded to Professor Teresa Paiva and to Professor Helena Rebelo Pinto, from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon, respectively, for their authorship of the book “The Mysteries of Sleep”. This book for children and teens received the prize on the 19th of March 2010 (World Sleep Day) from the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM), as the best creation proposed on the world level within the “Sleep well, be healthy” competition promoted by the WASM. “What we are trying to do is to make people […]

Terry Fox Grant awarded to IMM Researcher João Barata

The researcher João Barata, Director of the Unit of Cancer Biology of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, was one of the winners of the Terry Fox grants. The grants are awarded by the Embassy of Canada and by the Portuguese League against Cancer, and annually distinguish research projects in the area of cancer. This year 15 thousand Euros were attributed to each of the three winning projects. João Barata’s project aims at studying the intra-cell alterations that contribute towards the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), which is responsible […]

Full Professor from the Centre for Geographical Studies receives University of Lisbon Prize 2009/2010

Professor Jorge Manuel Barbosa Gaspar, 67, a renowned geographer, was this year’s winner of the University of Lisbon prize. This prize is worth 25 thousand Euros and is sponsored by the Banco Santander Totta. It has been awarded annually since 2006 and distinguishes a Portuguese or foreign personality who has been working in the country for at least five years whose works of recognised scientific or cultural merit have contributed towards the progress and aggrandizing of science of culture, as well as towards Portugal’s international projection. This year the jury justified its decision in the quality of the scientific work […]

News Report / Profile

The creation of the University of Lisbon in 1911

Decree-Law of 22nd of March 1911 marks the creation of the Universities of Lisbon and Oporto University Constitution of April 22nd 1911 formalises the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine Once the Republic was proclaimed, higher education became one of the areas to which the new regime dedicated a great deal of attention. It was necessary to end the monopoly of the University of Coimbra (the only one where the Law Faculty functioned until then). The Government Diary, Nº 66, of the 22nd of March 1911 published a Decree-Law creating a university in Lisbon and another in Oporto. In April 1911, a […]

Medicine Olympics in the First Person

The Medicine Olympics go far beyond the experiences of those who participate in them… spreading as a contagion to those who have the privilege to professionally have contact with the students of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. However, it is important to make a brief and concise summary of the subject so we do not catch anyone unawares. The Medicine Olympics are a sports and cultural event that this year is completing its respectable XVII edition. In short, they are a moment of socialization and leisure, seen by the students of the Faculty of Medicine as […]

On Books and Medicine over the Last Hundred Years: a Brief and Overall Reflection

The period in which we live is witnessing the development of the new information technologies at a dizzying pace, in a manner that is substantially transforming not only the traditional paradigms of access to information and the methods and forms of communication, but also the very habits of life and organisation of thought. This development has been so striking in our work and in our lives that we end up undervaluing and forgetting previous stages, with it becoming necessary to recall them in ways that sometimes seem like a longing for the past or sound like old-fashioned things. And for […]

100 Years of Medicine: a Historical Perspective – Part I

Just like the cyclist in whom movement is a condition of his stability, the human being’s condition of survival seems to be evolution. Over a hundred years went by from the discovery of the neuron, by Ramón and Cajal in 1904, until the complete sequencing of the human genome in 2007. During this period medicine evolved much more than in millennia of history. Reforms in Medical Teaching In 1910 the American scholar Abraham Flexner produced his famous report Medical Education in the United States and Canada, the conclusions and proposals of which would be at the origin of important changes […]

Events

Association of Former Students of the Faculty of Medicine of the Univ. of Lisbon Reflection Debates

The second Association of Former Students of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (AAAFML) debate was held on the 20th of April last, after a series of encounters that will be held on the subject “What doctors we want … for our country”. The subject of this session was “Access, Curriculum and Continuous Training in Portuguese Medicine Faculties”. It was attended by Dr. Rui Simões Bento (President of the AAFML), as a moderator, by Dr. Manuel Cunha e Sá (Director of the Neurosurgery Service of the Garcia d’Orta Hospital), by Professor Roberto Palma Reis (Professor of the […]

International Brain Week 2010: the Contribution of the FMUL

During the week of the 15th to the 21st of March the 15th edition of the International Brain Week was held. The Faculty of Medicine, just as what happened over the last five years, was one of the 700 entities on a global level that gave dynamics to the activities in order to motivate society towards knowledge of the brain, to divulge research in neurosciences and to bring neuroscientists closer to the population, particularly young people. Under the coordination of the neuroscientists Luísa V. Lopes and Paula A. Pousinha, from the Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, 33 researchers from different […]

Presentation Session for the University of Lisbon Centre for Common Resources and Shared Services

The presentation session to the whole of UL community for the University of Lisbon Centre for Common Resources and Shared Services (CRCSP) took place on the 20th of April. The session took place in the Noble Hall of the Chancellery of the UL and included speeches by Professor António Nóvoa, Chancellor of the UL, by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Carlos Lobo, by Dr. João Gomes of Deloitte Consultants, SA and by David Xavier, Executive Director of the CRCSP. The Chancellor of the UL was speaking to an audience that filled the hall, and began by presenting the chronology of the events […]

More and Better

Terry Fox Grants

The Terry Fox grants were born out of the courage and the dream of a young Canadian. Terry Fox was a young man aged 18 who was diagnosed with bone cancer and who, after hospitalisation and daily contact with the suffering of other young people who also had cancer, decided to walk across Canada in order to raise funds for the research, treatment and cure for this illness. This “run” of his, which took place in 1980, became known as the “Hope Marathon”. Terry ended up dying in June 1981, but since then Terry Fox races are held all over […]

“Manual of Palliative Care”, 2nd edition, revised and expanded

The Manual of Palliative Care was particularly well accepted by health professionals, and the rapid disappearance of the available copies of the first edition clearly shows the potential interest for this area of health care, which was the main motivation for the preparation of this second revised and expanded edition. The same desire led us to make available a set of understandable, updated and easily accessed information items that are based on selected research and the clinical experience and personal reflections of the authors, useful for different health professionals who in one way or another are involved in the practice […]

Lançamento do livro “Os Mistérios do Sono”

No passado dia 19 de Março, o Anfitetaro de Chimica, do Museu da Escola Politécnica, acolheu o evento de lançamento do livro “Os Mistérios do Sono”, de autoria das Professoras Helena Rebelo Pinto e Teresa Paiva, ambas docentes da Universidade de Lisboa (UL). A Prof.ª Doutora Teresa Paiva é docente da Faculdade de Medicina e tem feito um trabalho notável na área das Neurociências, especificamente nas Ciências do Sono, contribuindo, através da sua actividade educativa e da comunicação social, para a sensibilização quanto aos problemas do sono e o seu impacto na saúde pública. A Prof.ª Doutora Helena Rebelo Pinto […]

My GIAF

On the 7th of April last the Human Resources Office made an important tool, called My GIAF, available to all the collaborators in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Through it the user can consult his individual process on any computer, inside or outside the institution. He may even make a set of alterations at the simple distance of a click away, with it no longer being necessary to go to the Nucleus of Human Resources and be subject to times for receiving requests. Yet the most important elements in this new tool are the user and […]

Updating of the GAPAE page

The GAPAE (Student Support and Accompaniment Office) has this month updated its page on the faculty portal, making information about the main work it carries out available. On www.fm.ul.pt/gapae you will be able to consult information about: • GAPAE’s work and aims; • a study carried out by this office on academic adaptation; • documentation on the FMUL tutoring programme; • two workshops for medicine students: . Psycho-pedagogical support for students who wish to grant 1st and 2nd year students with practical strategies to deal with or minimise the difficulties or constraints arising from the processes of adaptation; . Burnout, […]

Books of the Month

Dear Users, Access the book of the month for April André Rodrigues CDI Library / Preservation and Conservation Nucleus Bibl@fm.ul.pt Tel.: 21 798 51 32 | Ext.: 44 172

Research and Advanced Education

Masters Course in Palliative Care

Today palliative care represents a reference standard of care for patients with advanced chronic illnesses and for their families. This field of knowledge comes from the increasing ageing of the population and the corresponding change in patterns of mortality and morbility, as well as a societal context of increasing individualisation of family ties, but also as a reaction to an increase in suffering in vulnerable populations, through abandonment or through therapeutic obstinacy in a society that is increasingly technology-based. Palliative care has progressively been implanted over the last decade into the clinical area, into research, into teaching and into society. […]

Academic Examinations at the Faculty Of Medicine of The University Of Lisbon

MASTERS Palliative Care Subject: “Effectiveness of an Intervention Programme in the Perception of Overload by Relatives caring for Older People with Dementia” Ana Maria Antunes da Silva see more Subject: “Mouth care in palliative care – contribution towards the promoting of human dignity” Maria Fernanda Miranda Coelho Serrano see more Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (4th edition) Subject: “Autosomic SNPs in forensic identification.” Paulo Alexandre Paisana da Silva Dario see more Human Sexuality Subject: “Sexuality and Adolescence – Symptoms of Depression and Risk Sexual Behaviour in Adolescence” Marisa Cláudia Cortês Lucas see more Emerging Infectious Diseases Subject: “Study of the […]

Teacher Participation on Juries for Academic Examinations in Other Institutions

(up to April 2010) PhDs Teachers: Carlos Manuel Brandão Perdigão Examination: PhD Institution: University of Oporto Teachers: Maria Isabel de Sousa Rocha Examination: PhD – Life Sciences Institution: New University of Lisbon – Faculty of Medical Sciences Teachers: Nuno Fernando Duarte Cordeiro Correia dos Santos Examination: PhD – Biological Engineering Institution: New University of Lisbon – Faculty of Sciences and technology Teachers: Maria Leonor Tavares Saúde Examination: PhD – Biology Institution: New University of Lisbon – Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology Masters Teachers: António Cândido Vaz Carneiro Examination: Masters – Evidence and Decision in Health Institution: Faculty of Medicine […]

Seminários IMM

Seminário ePI – Claúdio Sunkel dia 5 de Maio (das 13h00 às 14h00) Edifício Egas Moniz Rheumatoid arthritis: from practical issues to cutting edge translational research João Eurico Fonseca e José Canas da Silva, dia 14 de Maio, Hotel Marriot Seminário ePI – Mónica Dias dia 19 de Maio (das 13h00 às 14h00) Edifício Egas Moniz Curso do Movimento dia 29 de Maio (das 8h00 às 19h00) Edifício Egas Moniz CPM-URIA/IMM Seminar: The Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome: How can impaired phagocytosis lead to increased autoimmunity? 30 de Abril (das 12h00 às 13h00) Edifício Egas Moniz – Piso 01 – Sala 57 Ted […]

Publications FMUL/HSM/IMM

Publications: Faculty Medicine Lisbon, Hospital Santa Maria or Instituto Molecular Medicine (Publicações em 2010: de 23 de Fevereiro a 10 de Abril) (inclui apenas artigos originais, revisões, material e cartas editoriais) ISI Web of Knowledge (Base de Dados = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, IC, CCR-EXPANDED) Almeida V, Mestre T, De Carvalho M (2010). Pseudobulbar syndrome in two patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, 11; 1-2, 220-222. Antunes J, Filipe P, Andre M, et al. (2010). Livedoid Vasculopathy Associated with Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Promoter Homozygosity (4G/4G) and Prothrombin G20210A Heterozygosity: Response to t-PA Therapy. ACTA DERMATO-VENEREOLOGICA, 90; […]

Moments

Professor Francisco Pulido Valente – The Medical View

President of the Pulido Valente Foundation Chairman of the Board of the North Lisbon Hospital Centre (CHLN) Relatives of Professor Pulido Valente and Guests Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to thank Professor João Monjardino, the Direction of the Pulido Valente Foundation and the Chairman of the Board of the CHLN for their kind invitation to participate in this act of homage to Professor Pulido Valente, one of the greatest figures in XX century Portuguese medicine. Someone once wrote that “the past is a foreign country” and that in order to visit it one needs a skilful and knowledgeable pilot. I […]

Researching Science and Health

The Internet has definitively established itself in our lives, and Internet search engines now carry out the function previously reserved for telephone books and dictionaries. Orientation and research are essential in order to make the most of the Internet. Through this item in the “Open Space”, news@fmul intends to contribute towards this orientation. In each issue we will divulge some Internet pages or blogs that seem worthy of note to us from the academic or scientific viewpoint so that they can figure on each person’s list of favourites. We invite all our readers to send suggestions to news@fm.ul.pt The Foundation […]

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In Memoriam

On the 4th of December 2009 Paulo de Souza Ramalho, Retired Professor of Ophthalmology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon passed away unexpectedly. Paulo de Souza Ramalho was always a research enthusiast, and from the outset his name was connected to the Fluoresceinic Angiography of the Retina because he devoted himself to that technique in London and then to most of his life in Lisbon. Recently one of his friends and colleagues in research in London praised his enthusiasm among young people in the field of research. I think he would never have achieved everything he […]

CRCSPUL – Yes, we can!

With the publication of the organics of the Centre of Common Resources and Shared Services (CRCSPUL), one more phase of the establishing of the centre is completed. Now our mission and areas of performance are clear, and we can establish the aims we intend to achieve. Mission The mission of the CRCSP is to promote and bring about the development of projects that are based on sharing existing or to be acquired material, logistical and human resources and on institutional cooperation and interaction and which allow the effecting of high quality academic and scientific activities with greater rationalisation of resources, […]

Listening to FMUL

Indicators of the 13th “Education through Science” Programme – 2009/2010

The 13th “Education through Science” Programme, organized by the Support for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research Office (GAPIC) allowed, during the present academic year (2009/2010) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), 58 students from the 2nd to the 6th years to be involved in 41 scientific research projects that have been developed in 17 FMUL research units under the orientation of 41 tutors. Indicators on the 13th “Education through Science” Programme available here Information about the “Education through Science” Programme on: www.fm.ul.pt/Educacao_Ciencia Support for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research Office gapicmail@fm.ul.pt

Keep in Mind

15th Terry Fox Race Portugal – 8th of May in the Parque das Nações

On the 8th of May the 15th Terry Fox Race will be held in the Lisbon Parque das Nações at 11 am, over a course of 1.5 Km to 5 Km, with the support of several individual figures. Location of Race: Parque das Nações (outside the Portugal Pavilion) Enrolment: on site, from 9.30 am on Beginning of Race: 11 am Cost of Enrolment (donation to the Portuguese League against Cancer): 5 Euros (with the gift of a T-Shirt) To make your Donation: directly at the race site or through the bank account number: Banco Espírito Santo 044/02845/000.2 More information

Presentation of the Book “BIOCHEMISTRY IN MEDICINE” – 11th of May 2010

On the 11th of May the presentation of the book “Biochemistry in Medicine”, by Professor J. Martins e Silva and Professor Carlota Saldanha will take place in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). 1st Part – Joint Scientific Session Subject: Atherosclerosis, inflammatory reaction and vascular repercussions Organisation and Aims – Set of three integrated talks, lasting 20 minutes each, following the model of the Multidisciplinary Seminars used in the courses in Cell Biochemistry and Physiological Biochemistry. Subjects • Biochemical foundations of atherosclerosis and repercussions on the characteristics and endothelial activity – Professor […]

IV Nursing Encounter – 12th of May

“Methodologies in Control and Prevention of the Infection Associated to Health Care: Respiratory Infection and Infection Associated to Intravascular Devices” On the 12th of May 2010 the IV Nursing Encounter will be held in the Jean Piaget Higher School of Health in Vila Nova de Gaia. Infections acquired in health institutions are among the most important causes of death and increase in morbility in hospitalised patients. Over 8% of in-patients in Portuguese hospitals present at least one nosocomial infection. The most frequent nosocomial infections are infections of the urinary tracts, the infections of the lower respiratory tracts, infection of the […]

António Xavier Prize 2009 – Applications by the 16th of May 2010

The António Xavier Prize 2009, in the value of five thousand Euros, was set up by the BRUKER group in recognition of Professor António Xavier’s tireless commitment to Portuguese scientific development. For 2009 the prize will be awarded to the best scientific project in the areas of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Image through Magnetic Resonance or Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance, the author of which will be 39 years of age or under on the date of the awarding of the prize (12th of July 2010) and is affiliated to a university, research institution or Portuguese company. Applications should be sent exclusively in […]

PESSOA Programme – Applications by May 17th

This initiative is run by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and aims at implementing scientific and technological Exchange of excellence between research laboratories in Portugal and France, favouring the appearance of new research teams and cooperation subjects. This programme provides financing for the mobility of researchers integrated in common research projects – lasting two years – between Portuguese and French teams. Applications must be submitted by the 17th of May 2010. Detailed information is available here Additional clarification should be forwarded directly to the e-mail address mrodrigues.silva@fct.mctes.pt

Workshop Novel Experimental Therapies for Diseases of the Nervous System – 29 e 30 Maio

Datas: 29 e 30 de Maio de 2010 (Sábado e Domingo) Local: Hotel Pestana Palace, Lisboa Data Limite de Inscrição: 3 de Maio 2010 (2.ª feira) Mais informação aqui

12th European Conference of Medical and Health Science Libraries – From the 16th to the 18th of June

On the 16th to the 18th of June the 12th European Conference of Medical and Health Science Libraries will be held at the Estoril Congress Centre. Portuguese speakers invited: • Dr Isabel Mota – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Opening Ceremony • Professor Alexandre Quintanilha – Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) – Opening Lecture • Professor António Vaz Carneiro – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) – Plenary speaker • Professor Armando Brito de Sá – FMUL – Debate: The Future of Libraries Scientific programme for the conference Enrolment for the conference: http://www.eahil2010.org/en/registration http://www.ehail2010.org Estoril Congress […]

Homage to Professor Arsénio Cordeiro – 21st of June 2010

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) will hold a session of homage to Professor Arsénio Cordeiro on the 21st of June 2010, in the Aula Magna of the FMUL, on the date which marks the centenary of his birth, inviting all his friends and former students to attend. Provisional Programme: – Evocative Exhibition – Distribution of a publication on Professor Arsénio Cordeiro’s work – Presentation of the painting with his portrait – Session with speeches by official and academic entities

Project: Science at the University of Lisbon

One of the main aims of this project is to divulge the scientific activities of the UL Auxiliary Researchers contracted within the scope of the Science 2007 and Science 2008 programmes. At the moment, Science at the UL includes three initiatives: – A Researcher in Portugal: twice-monthly publication with informative articles in the newspaper Sol. – Science in Portuguese: cycle of weekly informative talks held in public spaces for the divulging of culture. – Sciences on the Network: scientific workshop to be held between the 24th and 26th of November 2010, in the Noble Hall of the UL Chancellery Building. […]

Pulido Valente Teaching Prize 2010 – 27th of May

Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon The prize will be awarded in an official ceremony to be held on the 27th of May 2010, at 12 noon, in the Aula Magna of the FMUL, to the student Daniela Marisa Carvalho Silva, Student with Best average mark in Medicine II in 2008/2009 Programme 12 noon – Opening of the PV Teaching Prize 2010 (Speaker to be defined) 12.05 pm – Presentation of Homage to Prof. Jaime Celestino da Costa Professor J. Fernandes e Fernandes Dean of the FMUL 12.15 pm – Homage to Professor Jaime […]

Exhibition Neuronal Landscapes – Until 18th July

Lisbon Cervantes Institute 7th of April to 18th of June Admission Free The exhibition, which includes 50 digital photographs and 20 facsimiles, shows a selection of scientific images of the nerve system of the brain, taken by neuroscientists from all over the world. Here we can see the drawings by some of the pioneers in neurosciences, like Ramón and Cajal, Golgi or Retzius, up to the most recent images that one obtains using the most cutting-edge techniques, all chosen according to their quality, content and beauty. More information here The exhibition may be visited from the 7th of April to […]