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News # 85 | Dec. 2018

Editorial Note

Christmas Routines

There is an expression that says that “our routine is our second skin”, but what does one feel when he sees his routine disrupted and moving to a plan which one cannot control? With Christmas as the key topic of December, this topic takes a whole another level of importance when we think about those cases when the second skin does not allow to spend Christmas with whom one had planned. We spoke with two different groups that organize themselves to bring a new sense of “normality” to the routine when it has been disrupted around Christmas time. We met […]

FMUL News

Fausto Pinto assume presidência do CAML

De acordo com o estipulado na Portaria que criou o Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, o Conselho Diretivo do CAML (CD-CAML) é composto pelos dirigentes das três instituições que o integram: pela FMUL, o Diretor, Professor Doutor Fausto J. Pinto; pelo CHULN, o Presidente do Conselho de Administração, Dr. Carlos Neves Martins, e pelo iMM, a Presidente, Professora Doutora Maria do Carmo Fonseca. Na sequência do entendimento acordado relativo à rotatividade da Presidência deste órgão entre as três Instituições, foi aprovado por unanimidade, na reunião do CAML de 10 de dezembro de 2018, que a Presidência do CD-CAML no […]

Ana Almeida assume novos cargos na Sociedade Europeia de Cardiologia

A Professora Doutora Ana Almeida, Cardiologista, foi recentemente nomeada para cargos no âmbito da Sociedade Europeia de Cardiologia, que ocorreram no Congresso EuroECHO 2028, entre 5 e 8 de dezembro, em Milão: Councillor pela Ressonânca Cardíaca (Councillor CMR), na Direção (Board) da Associação ESC – European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Abstract Chair EuroCMR 2019

O Bolo Rei antes do Natal

O Diretor da Faculdade, Fausto J. Pinto, recebeu as suas chefias para o já tradicional bolo Rei de Natal, agradecendo assim publicamente todo o trabalho desenvolvido pelas respetivas equipas.

The Health Minister visits the Hospital Santa Maria and inaugurates innovative equipment

Fausto J. Pinto, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Carlos Neves Martins, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North Lisbon University Hospital Complex, have welcomed the health Minister, Marta Temido, to inaugurate three imaging equipments which are the first in the Iberian Peninsula. A three-million-euro-investment which resulted in the acquisition of a digital tomosynthesis mammography device, which is going to double the number of mammographies we can perform at Santa Maria”, and of two angiography devices that would “allow the improvement of our response in the treatment of strokes”, explains Carlos Neves Martins. This reaction of both […]

On the last School Board of 2018

Composed of 15 members, the school board meets occasionally to discuss some matters important in the Faculty’s agenda. The Body responsible for the election of the Director has a supervisory role, assessing the plan of action proposed for the upcoming year, as well as those that have been implemented and fulfilled this year. In November last, the Dean of the Faculty Fausto J. Pinto met with the School Board where he presented the Plan of Activities for 2019. We talked to the dean Fausto J. Pinto and to the President of the School Board, José Ferro, to understand the main […]

Fausto J. Pinto chosen as President-Elect of the World Heart Federation

Professor Fausto J. Pinto, Director of The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Head of the Cardiology Department and the Heart and Vascular Department, both in the Santa Maria University Hospital (CHLN), is now adding to his resumé the position of President-Elect of the World Heart Federation. This NGO, which is present in almost 100 countries, counts on the participation of 200 partners worldwide and is recognised by the World Health Organization as a very important pillar of the community in the field of cardiovascular health. The WHF defends health justice, and especially in heart health regardless of […]

Prof. Doutor Rui Tato Marinho é o novo diretor do Serviço de Gastrenterologia e Hepatologia do Hospital de CHULN

Rui Tato Marinho, Professor da Clínica Universitária de Gastrenterologia é, a partir de agora, o diretor do Serviço de Gastrenterologia e Hepatologia do Hospital de Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (Hospital Santa Maria). Bastante agradado com esta distinção, o Professor reagiu à notícia, “é uma grande honra e será com certeza um prazer. Elevar a qualidade deste Serviço aos melhores padrões europeus, fazer com que tanto os todos profissionais de saúde como os doentes estejam satisfeitos e, acima de tudo, fazer mais e melhor”, são os seus grandes objetivos para alcançar neste novo desafio. Desafio que não é fácil já […]

News Report / Profile

Leonor Parreira – of Soul and Grounds

I asked her if we were still living the golden times that she described during her internship at Santa Maria. She answered that golden are the kids, precious students that will face extreme difficulties with a national health system that will not make their lives easier. She didn’t say it because it’s no part of her personality, but she was part of a group that had a great impact on what is today the Faculty of Medicine and Science. At the advice of a close friend, we wanted to get to know her story. However, we had been warned that […]

Professor Madalena Patrício – a life at the service of Medical Education

On a car trip to Alentejo, she received a phone call asking if she would accept the International Peace Prize of Gusi Foundation. While at first she thought it was a joke, it quickly became clear that she would soon be travelling to the Philippines where she would be awarded what many call the ‘Asian Nobel’. Madalena Patrício, Retired Assistant Professor of the FMUL, was the director of the Department of Medical Education (DEM). For 7 years she presided over the largest medical education organisation in the world, the AMEE (the International Association for Medical Education), with which she continues […]

Events

Research Celebration Day

On the last 12th of December 2018 Research Day place in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL), organized by the Support Office to Innovation and Scientific and Technological Research(GAPIC, partnered with the Student Association of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine (AEFML). This year the program was focused on the promotion of the GAPIC Alumni launched on the 29th anniversary of GAPIC, on July 11th 2018. In the opening session, Ricardo Fernandes, of the team of GAPIC, presented the Project PREPIT (Pregraduate Research Program – Impact and Trajectories) which aims to assess the scientific, academic and professional outcomes […]

Convívio de Natal da Casa do Pessoal da FMUL

A Casa do Pessoal da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (CPFMUL) realizou, a 14 de dezembro, o tradicional almoço de Natal, que contou com a presença de uma centena de associados. O almoço anual é um momento, entre outros que a CPFMUL organiza ao longo do ano, de agradável convívio entre colegas, quer ativos quer aposentados. Esta iniciativa é também aberta a outros colaboradores interessados ainda que não sócios. Os sócios participantes foram presenteados com uma lembrança oferecida pela CPFMUL e realizou-se também o sorteio de cabazes de natal de oferta a três dos sócios presentes no evento. […]

More and Better

Alcoholism Prevention by Frederico Rosário Frederico Rosário at the top of the list of articles in its category.

A PhD project is being developed at the Preventive Medicine Institute of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, led by General Practitioner Frederico Rosário Frederico Rosário, and supervised by Professor Cristina Ribeiro of the same Institute, and Professor Niamh Fitzgerald Niamh Fitzgerald of the University of Stirling in Scotland. This project aims to implement early detection and brief interventions for alcohol consumption in healthcare centres and has already been the subject of several publications in national and international journals. One of these articles – [Rosário F, et al. Implementing alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary health care: study protocol […]

Cases of advanced stage heart failure now have a special unit in the Hospital Pulido Valente

This month, the Pulido Valente Hospital opened the first unit in the country dedicated to heart failure in the palliative care area. With the High Sponsorship of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, the Unit “Mais Sentido” will take care of heart failure at advanced stages, thus following and monitoring patients at home, covering a significant number of patients and also supporting their families. The inauguration was headed by the Carlos Neves Martins, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lisboa Norte Hospital, with the special presence of the Fausto J. Pinto Chief of the CHLN Cardiology Service and Dean […]

Encontro Anual do Projecto Twinning H2020 “Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks”

O 4º Encontro Anual do Projecto Twinning H2020 “Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks”, coordenado pela Professora Ana Sebastião, ocorreu nos passados dias 12 e 13 de dezembro, com um evento satélite a 11 de dezembro, no Edifício Egas Moniz da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Esta reunião científica contou com mais de 100 participantes e incluiu 4 apresentações de oradores internacionais, 8 apresentações de participantes de acções de mobilidade do projecto, 15 apresentações orais de alunos dos vários parceiros e 38 apresentações na forma de poster. O projecto envolve 4 instituições: Instituto de Medicina Molecular […]

Research and Advanced Education

Bread: from research to patent creation

Patent Registration PT 109262 – Bread with high resistant starch content and its production method In 2010, following a Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Master’s Degree in Food Technology/Quality, Olga Amaral joined the Doctoral Programme in Metabolic Diseases and Food Behaviour, Health Science and Technology Branch, specialisation in Nutrition, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. She has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja for more than 25 years in the areas of food, microbiology and nutrition, and chose the transversality of these subjects as the focus of her PhD […]

Publicações Científicas (FMUL/HSM/IMM) novembro – dezembro 2018

A Newsletter pretende, neste espaço, dar aos seus leitores uma perspectiva da produção científica realizada no Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, que inclui a Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, o Hospital de Santa Maria e o Instituto de Medicina Molecular. Para aceder ao texto integral dos artigos, deverá estar conectado à rede da FMUL. As bases de dados utilizadas foram a Pubmed e a Web of Science. Abrir o documento em PDF. André Rodrigues Área de Biblioteca e Informação andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Promovendo a Ciência – Resultados dos Concursos GAPIC 2018

Uma vez mais, em 2018, o GAPIC lançou 3 concursos para a promoção da investigação científica, direcionados a alunos pré graduados e a recém-graduados em Medicina: a 4.ª edição do Prémio GAPIC David-Ferreira; a 22.ª edição do Programa “Educação pela Ciência” | Bolsas CHULN/FMUL e a 15.ª edição da Bolsa de Investigação Fundação AstraZeneca/FMUL. O Prémio GAPIC David-Ferreira, instituído em 2016/2017, distingue os melhores Trabalhos Finais / Teses do MIM. Este ano, foram recebidas 23 candidaturas, tal como no ano passado, o que confirma o interesse dos alunos, tendo sido distinguidas as seguintes: Prémio – Ana Beatriz Nogueira Garcia, ”Variantes genéticas […]

Science Space

Luisa Lopes distinguished by SCML in Neuroscience

The team led by Luísa Lopes, from the Institute of Molecular Medicine João Lobo Antunes /, Faculty of Medicine, received the Award Mantero Belard, from Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. With the amount of 200 thousand euros, this award aims to promote and stimulate scientific or clinical research in the field of neurodegenerative diseases associated with ageing, such as Disease Parkinson and Disease Alzheimer, enabling new strategies in the treatment and restoration of neurological functions. In a statement to News@fmul, the neuroscientist Luísa Lopes presented her team and her work proposal. “”Our team is dedicated to studying […]

Moments

Students’ Association’s Christmas Projects

We met with Matilde, , Catarina and João to find out which initiatives the AEFML (Students’ Association of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon) is preparing for Christmas time. Some projects are rooted in the students’ traditions, and the years go by, participants change, but the spirit of continuity and mission remains, all the more because it’s Christmas. 30th Christmas party with homeless people Matilde Boavida is a member of the AEFML’s Public and Sexual health team that this year is organising, in collaboration with “Comunidade Vida e Paz”, the 30th Christmas party with homeless people. In this annual […]

Christmas message

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon wishes all the Academic Community (Students, Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff), as well as their Friends and Partners, a Merry Christmas, and may 2019 be a year of Peace, full of personal, domestic and professional accomplishments. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Director Fausto J. Pinto

Open Space

invisible” professions at the Hospital of Santa Maria

Because Hospital Santa Maria is not only made up of doctors, nurses and auxiliaries. The newspaper Público published an article on the “invisible” professions of this hospital. By the photographer Magda Moutinho. You can also see these photos on the 2nd floor of the Hospital Santa Maria Read the article here

From this Side

Nádia and Beatriz Christmas

Nádia Fernandes is a Mozambican woman who came to Portugal study Medicine this year. The first time we met, she had just arrived with her father to enrol at the FMUL. Around Christmas, we decided to meet up with her again to find out how student life was treating her and how this first festive date would unfold in her new life. Christmas will be different because for the first time she will not be spending it with her parents. Currently living in Cascais with her 75-year-old aunt Beatriz, with whom she will be spending the night, having a very […]

Christmas has come to the Paediatric Department

We enter the teachers’ room when the animation teams are gathering to bring a little bit of colour to the corridors of the Paediatric Department of the Santa Maria Hospital. We are there because we want to take part in one of the many playful initiatives organised by the Santa Maria Hospital to entertain hospitalised children. Animation groups are putting on fantasy costumes; teams are playing with puppets and telling fairy tales, others are playing instruments and singing, or performing theatre plays that tell magical stories. Everybody is walking around the corridors of the Paediatric Department to steal shy smiles […]

From the Past to the Present

Visita Guiada ao Património da Faculdade de Medicina

No âmbito do 1º Encontro A Universidade de Lisboa e o Património, realizou-se, no passado dia 15 de dezembro, sábado, entre as 10:00 e as 13:00, uma visita guiada ao património da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Um grupo de cerca de vinte pessoas integrou uma visita ao património da FMUL, com destaque para alguns dos seus ex-libris, nomeadamente, entre outros, os quadros de Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, o desenho da Lição de Anatomia de Américo Marinho, as instalações renovadas da Biblioteca-CDI e uma selecção de obras do seu acervo de livro antigo. A conduzir a visita guiada, pela […]

Keep in Mind

2019 Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology

The 2019 Monothematic Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology will be held on January 26 at Centro Cultural de Belém, with the participation of several specialists, namely gastroenterologists, surgeons, and oncologists, among others. This event will focus on digestive cancer. “A third of all cancers is related to the digestive tract,” says Professor Rui Tato Marinho, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, who will preside over the event. Dr. Marília Cravo, Dr. Filipe Calinas, Dr. Isadora Rosa and Dr. Susana Mão-de-Ferro are also members of the organising committee. To read the provisional programme, click here […]