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News #79 | May 2018

Editorial Note

Paediatrics

June 1 is International Children’s Day and maybe that’s why this month’s edition of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon’s newsletter is about Paediatrics. I couldn’t agree more. Paediatrics is Internal Medicine aimed at ages 0 to 18, an age group that in some cases is extended to 21 or more, in cases of chronic illness. But children’s medicine, despite its split into subspecialties, has managed to retain its cohesion, with no dissociation or disbanding. As Coordinator of the Paediatrics area of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, I accepted the invitation from the Newsletter’s editorial team. The Paediatrics/University Clinic […]

FMUL News

Bruno Silva-Santos receives Janssen award

The Janssen awards were given on May 9, in the total amount of €60,000, focusing on immunotherapy, neuroscience and infectious diseases. Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Bruno Silva-Santos and his team from the João Lobo Antunes iMM, received the first prize in the amount of 30 thousand euros, with the work entitled “Tumour-associated neutrophils suppress pro-tumoral IL-17+ γδ T cells through induction of oxidative stress”. This research has uncovered a group of T lymphocytes that can hinder the body’s defences against cancer, yet these cells can be stopped, thus counteracting their negative effect. The […]

Robert Badura awarded the Gilead Génese Programme

The Gilead Génese Programme, which has existed since 2013, has a two-pronged approach, encouraging research, production and sharing of scientific knowledge in Portugal and promoting initiatives that enable the implementation of good practice in patient care. This programme is part of Gilead Sciences’ social responsibility policy and aims at fostering community involvement. The 2017 edition of the Gilead Génese Programme, whose overall value was 300 thousand euros, evaluated 32 applications, and 6 scientific research projects were winners. One of the winning projects is the work of Robert Badura, Guest Assistant Lecturer at FMUL, as part of the ongoing research on […]

FMUL 2017 Activities Report

To the entire Academic Community, The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon is committed to fulfilling its Mission and successfully achieving its objectives, in order to build its future and continue with its vision of becoming a top reference institution for medical education and biomedical research, nationally and in Europe. During 2017, the FMUL continued its mission, having carried out various activities in the scope of strategic, planned goals: Improve the quality of FMUL’s Pre- and Post-graduate Education; Promote Scientific Research; Boost external relations; Intensify administrative modernisation; Improve infrastructures for the service of the FMUL community. All activities […]

Communication of the Joint Commission CHLN / FMUL

The North Lisbon Hospital Centre and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon’s Joint Commission met on May 10th. You can see the release that resulted from this meeting here

XII CAML PhD Students’ Meeting

The XII CAML PhD Students’ Meeting was held from 23rd-25th May at Ed. Egas Moniz, FMUL/iMM-JLA and counted with the participation of 92 PhD Students and fantastic talks from invited speakers. Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel showed the relationship between the number of neurons and longevity of the species. Dr. Thomas Pradeu persuaded us to think about the philosophical concepts behind what we study, to efficiently design experiments and conclude about our results. Dr. María Blasco showed how increased telomeres – the end structure of the chromossomes – might protect against cancer and metabolic diseases, while Dr. António Almeida highlighted the importance of […]

Professor Doutor Ivo Álvares Furtado – Novo Presidente da Direcção da Sociedade Anatómica Portuguesa

Em 26 de Maio de 2018, na Escola de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade do Minho, foram eleitos os novos Corpos Gerentes da Sociedade Anatómica Portuguesa, com uma lista presidida pelo Professor Doutor Ivo Álvares Furtado, Professor Associado Convidado com Agregação em Anatomia da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. Ao candidatar-se à Direcção de uma das mais antigas e prestigiadas Sociedades Científicas Portuguesas (fundada em 1932), teve como preocupação central congregar na equipa de trabalho o maior número possível de representantes dos diferentes Institutos Anatómicos, num exercício de renovação e realização de trabalho conjunto de projecção da Anatomia Portuguesa. Privilegiaram-se […]

News Report / Profile

Maria do Céu Machado – A symphony of life

She waited for me in the meeting room, despite prior commitments that delayed me by half an hour. “The Professor is waiting for you over there,” it was as if I had received a bouquet of flowers, unconventional, I know, but from the joy of the meeting, which I longed for, I greeted her with two kisses, instead of the handshake imposed on us by a certain social protocol. “You know that the idea of working is something you can do anywhere. I did not waste my time, don’t worry.” In the hustle and bustle between the hectic schedule of […]

Professor Ana Isabel Lopes – Interview

It would be easy to ask him to describe his academic and professional career until he arrived here. He chose Gastro’s specialty within Pediatrics. But what made her follow this path? It is hard for me to describe so many years of work in a nutshell, but I should say that it is with great pride that I took up an academic and professional career focused on the great School that the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon and the Santa Maria Hospital was and still is for me. And I acknowledge that regardless of other valid external training inputs, such […]

Events

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon creates bridges with Romania

In a meeting between two countries that prove that there are less and less linguistic and cultural barriers, Romania and Portugal show a willingness to establish academic and scientific bridges. A meeting headed by the Director of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Professor Fausto Pinto, in the presence of the Ambassador to Portugal Ioana Bivolaru and the Dean of the Tirgu Mures University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Professor Leonard Azamfirei, allowed outlining complementary perspectives of collaboration between institutions that want to stimulate the exchange of knowledge and experience. As one of the first steps in this […]

Cerebrovascular Disease Open Information Session at the FMUL

On May 21, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon held an information session open to the general public about the topic “Cerebrovascular Disease”. The guest speakers invited to this event, organised by the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon, were Ana Catarina Fonseca and Daniel Caldeira, both Professors at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, and a representative of Portugal AVC – an association of survivors, relatives and friends, Diana Wong Ramos. With about 40 participants (students, researchers, seniors, caregivers, etc.), this initiative allowed the attendees to be in direct contact with physicians, […]

Teaching Award Ceremony 2018 Pulido Valente

On May 24, at the João Lobo Antunes Grand Auditorium, the 2018 Pulido Valente – Teaching Prize was awarded to the student Martim Trovão Pereira Bastos. The ceremony was attended by the Chairman of the Pulido Valente Foundation, Engineer Rui Pulido Valente, for whom this Prize, “first awarded in 1993, was the first initiative taken in order to promote the Pulido Valente Foundation, followed by the Pulido Valente – Science Award.” It affirms the relationship between the Foundation and the Faculty and “celebrates a very important personality with close ties to the Faculty of Medicine.” He recalled that “this is […]

Study Medicine – 2018 Applicant’s Day

Last April, Applicant’s Day celebrated its 10th anniversary. A pensar nos alunos que estão a fazer as suas escolhas universitárias, este Dia existe para que a Faculdade mostre os seus bastidores, permitindo que encontrem as respostas que procuram. Mas como nasceu este Dia? Thinking about the students who are making their university choices, this Day exists so that the Faculty can show them how it works behind the scenes, allowing them to find the answers they are seeking. But how did this Day come to be? Then-Director of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor José Fernandes, takes a journey back in time. […]

More and Better

“Medicine is a Profession of Princes” – Professor António Vaz Carneiro on Applicant’s Day

It was one of the last speeches of Applicant’s Day, António Vaz Carneiro is the Professor that several students say never fails to meet expectations when they meet him again in class, some time later. The Director of the Institute of Preventative Medicine and Public Health and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Studies is a customary presence on the day that the Faculty of Medicine opens its doors to the curious students who ponder which institute to choose when they enter Medicine. An easy communicator, he knows that if he tells a story while walking through the auditorium, he’ll be […]

To better know the artistic heritage of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon

The magazine Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares publishes, in its 9th issue of 2018, the article “Brief Reflection on the artistic heritage of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon”, by Ana Mehnert Pascoal, which we have published here. There are few studies on the artistic heritage of the University and, in particular, on the FMUL in recent years, so we welcome this publication, which we strongly recommend reading. The Newsletter contacted the author, who told us by way of contextualising: “The first studies I did on university heritage correspond to my master’s thesis about the artistic heritage […]

The 33rd Anniversary of the CPFMUL was celebrated in Vila Viçosa on April 28

The commemorative tour began with a visit to the Ducal Palace, a guided tour of about an hour that enchanted the participants who had the pleasure of discovering many curiosities about the last inhabitant of the palace, King D. Carlos, as well as to the largest kitchen in Europe in terms of the number of copper utensils, among other peculiarities of the day-to-day life of the illustrious figures who used to live in that national monument. The lunch took place in a very pleasant venue, in the middle of a garden, with traditional “Migas” from Alentejo and the CPFMUL anniversary […]

“Faculdade de Ajudar” in the Green Book on Social Responsibility and Higher Education Institutions

The Green Book is the result of a work of co-creation of about 150 representatives of 30 Higher Education Institutions, the ORSIES – Observatory for Social Responsibilities and Institutions project. This project is a joint initiative of Fórum Estudante and the Secretariat of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education. The purpose of this Book is to build a shared vision of the concept of social responsibility in the context of higher education institutions and its final version was under public consultation until May 20. “Faculdade de Ajudar”, FMUL’s social responsibility project, participated in the development of this Green Book, […]

Tiago Proença dos Santos – The Paediatric Neurologist

We are at the Paediatric Emergency Room, where Tiago Proença dos Santos was called in to evaluate a case in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. The Santa Maria Hospital receives many children with intensive care support needs. As Santa Maria has the only paediatric Neurotrauma centre in southern Portugal (from Algarve to Coimbra), it receives many seriously ill patients with neurological complications. Currently, Paediatrics provides medical care from birth to eighteen years of age. Santa Maria and other Portuguese hospitals realised that, within such a diversity of ages, there was the need to provide differentiated care, developing the different knowledge […]

Quando se começa a ser Pediatra – Os primeiros passos de um médico interno

É nas urgências da Pediatria do Hospital de Santa Maria que encontramos Mafalda Castelão, médica interna, e com a fibra necessária de quem ainda agora começou o longo caminho da Pediatria. Ex-aluna da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, seguiu as pisadas do Hospital de Santa Maria pela complexidade e desafio clínicos. Encontramo-nos nas urgências da Pediatria onde me mostra parte das urgências, como uma anfitriã na sua casa, a sala de reanimação, os desenhos pintados nos corredores que pretendem amenizar a relação com os seus pequenos doentes. O objetivo da nossa conversa foi perceber os primeiros passos, de […]

Professor Madalena Patrício – Coordinator of the Applicant’s Day

Responsible for coordinating the Applicant’s Day for the second consecutive year, Professor Madalena Patrício tries to put herself in the students’ shoes, in order to anticipate what may interest them during their visit to the FMUL. She is very methodical and active, holds several positions and attends many conferences and events around the world. With a great sense of responsibility, she likes to delegate and motivate her team members and praises and rewards, without exception, those who make the impossible feasible. She has an untiring energy, thus motivating her entire team for this great challenge. Is the Applicant’s Day still […]

Research and Advanced Education

Scientific Publications (FMUL / HSM / IMM) April – May 2018

The Newsletter intends to give its readers a perspective of the scientific production carried out at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, the Hospital of Santa Maria and the Institute of Molecular Medicine. To access the full text of the articles, you must be connected to the FMUL network. The databases used were Pubmed and Web of Science. Read the PDF document. FMUL Library and Information Centre André Rodrigues andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Pedagogical News

Notícias do Pedagógico

Nº 111| MAI’18 TRAÇAR UM RUMO: A ESTRATÉGIA DO FEEDBACK Não é segredo que dar feedback aos alunos é essencial para o seu crescimento académico. À medida que vão experienciando as exigências do curso, os estudantes necessitam frequentemente de ser orientados para o futuro, podendo seguir no mesmo caminho ou inverter a trajetória para um percurso mais seguro. Nesse sentido, é fundamental contarem com o apoio daqueles para quem olham: os docentes. Quando um docente revela interesse nos seus alunos, e lhes transmite conselhos construtivos sobre o seu desempenho, reforçando quer os pontos positivos, quer os negativos, estamos na presença de […]

Moments

Volunteering makes time less burdensome – Susana Machaqueiro Silva

Her name is Susana Machaqueiro Silva and she’s 66 years old. Trained as a nursery school teacher, she worked in that area for 41 years and retired in 2015. Her retirement allowed her to take up new duties, embracing causes that benefitted from her experience as a nursery school teacher. For the past two years, she has been a volunteer at the Paediatric Outpatient Clinic of the Santa Maria Hospital. Why did you choose Paediatrics to work as a volunteer? Susana Silva: I was invited by Rosário Botelho, a nursery school teacher who has been a friend of mine since […]

Open Space

“The misunderstanding: the diseases we call cancer”

This is the first of five television reports on the illness that is expected to affect half of the Portuguese population – cancer. This report relies on the participation of Professor Luís Costa, Assistant Visiting Professor at the FMUL and Director of the Oncology Service of the Santa Maria Hospital and Professor Bruno Silva Santos, Associate Professor at the FMUL and deputy director of the João Lobo Antunes Institute of Molecular Medicine. This theme has already been addressed by the Newsletter team and can be re-read again. You can view the report here.. Source and Image: SIC Notícias

Children have Educators at the Hospital – A guided tour by Rosário Botelho

Being a children educator for thirty-six years, Rosário Botelho always preferred to develop work with children their families, not only with children. The twenty years spent working at Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Lisbon, the relationship with various, vulnerable social groups and her social intervention in degraded neighbourhoods, gave her the emotional structure that allows her to coordinate the team of Educators at the Santa Maria Hospital. After seventeen years at Santa Maria, she asked the Ministry of Solidarity to be transferred to the Ministry of Health, “I wanted to be in direct contact, as I missed being around children”. […]

Did you know?

The Hospital also includes a School – A lesson given by Professor Sara Costa

Paediatrics at Santa Maria Hospital has a School since 2002, which was born of a protocol between PT, the National Association of Cystic Fibrosis of HSM, the Ministry of Education and CANTIC (Organism of this Ministry), because there were children who were hospitalised for more than a week and in need of continued treatment, which meant they were losing much of what was taught in class. At a time when the use of technology systems was scarce and knowledge was less universal, the use of video-conferences or remote classes was an oasis, an innovative system, but with a great need […]

From this Side

Miguel Andrade – From the viewer’s side

He has a discreet and peaceful appearance, but new students who meet him on Candidate Day easily treat him as “Professor,” since he has given up correcting them, as well as given up challenging the older students who call him “Tinoco.” Miguel Tinoco Andrade is another element of our topic “on this side” and who works to try to provide students with better study conditions. Currently, at the Preventive Medicine and Public Health Institute, he manages the operation of several subject areas and many other tasks that Teachers delegate to him, including an important part of that Unit’s Registrar. But […]

Paula from Paediatrics knows the department like nobody else! News@fmul went to meet her.

When we talk about Paediatrics, everyone at the Faculty of Medicine knows Paula. Paula from Paediatrics. We went to meet her and find out why we associate the department with her name. Paula Belmonte, who has been working at the Faculty for 22 years and for 21 in Paediatrics, welcomed us to the Multipurpose Room. An open space, full of light and with a cosy atmosphere, several pouffes and a table in the middle; “a room that is used for absolutely everything”, she tells us, and indeed it looks like a small kindergarten room. We are on the 6th floor […]

Memory Lane

Professor Carlota Saldanha’s Memory Roadmap

Born and raised in Beira, Mozambique, she moved to Lisbon when she was 17 years old and was here to stay. As a little girl, she would only be away from her parents to participate in scouts gatherings or to take school exams. She remembers the beaches, the parties she used to organise with her friends and the playground games, where she could roller skate or play football with the boys. As a student, she always thought that the books from her school’s Library did not match her “will to learn.” We were received by Maria Carlota Saldanha Lopes, or […]

For our safety

CSST – For Our Safety and Well-Being

Every single person is responsible for Health and Safety at Work! On April 28th, we celebrated the National Day of Prevention and Safety at Work, which is an homage to all the victims of occupational accidents and diseases and aims to raise awareness of the importance of adopting preventive measures to ensure safety at work and to prevent occupational accidents. We remind the entire FMUL community that the Faculty has a Committee for Health and Safety at Work (CSST) that, together with the Senior Safety Technician integrated in the Facilities, Equipment and Logistics Unit, seeks to promote a culture of […]

Keep in Mind

2018 Celgene Scholarship

Celgene is a pharmaceutical company committed to the development of innovative drugs designed to prolong and improve the lives of people with life-threatening, chronic and/or debilitating haemato-oncological and immuno-inflammatory diseases. The 2018 Celgene Scholarship, which will provide funding in the amount of €10,000 for new projects, with a scope extending also to chronic and debilitating neurological or rheumatic diseases. Applicants to the 2018 Celgene Scholarship should submit their projects from May 15 to June 15, 2018. Contact via email: premiocelgene.centradonapessoa@gmail.com More information here.

GAPIC David Ferreira Award| Applications until 30 Sept.

The GAPIC David Ferreira Award aims to distinguish the best Final Assignments / Master’s Theses of the Integrated Masters Course in Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, and thus stimulate the practice of scientific research among undergraduate students. With this award, FMUL honours Professor David Ferreira, who was the architect behind the creation of the GAPIC, a pioneering experience in scientific research by undergraduate students. The GAPIC David Ferreira Award will be awarded to the best work, in the amount of €1,000.00, and two honourable mentions will also be attributed to the second- and third-place […]

Em Todos os Sentidos | Exposição Multissensorial

A Universidade de Lisboa apresenta, pela primeira vez, “Em Todos os Sentidos – Exposição Multissensorial”. Esta exposição consiste num conjunto de experiências sensoriais, cognitivas e emocionais que têm por objetivo sensibilizar o público para as especificidades das necessidades educativas especiais. A inauguração realizou-se dia 25 de maio e mantém-se até dia 2 de junho, no edifício do Caleidoscópio. Mais informações, aqui.

Divulgação 5ª Edição Curso Clinical Research: What is all about?

No seguimento do plano de formação da AIDFM- CETERA em colaboração com o Gabinete de Apoio à Investigação Cardiovascular (GAIC), vimos por este meio anunciar a 5ª Edição do Curso (Versão portuguesa) “Clinical Research: What is all about?- a focused training for busy investigators and study teams” (FULL ENGLISH VERSION), que se irá realizar no Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa (CAML), a realizar-se nos dias 15 e 16 de Outubro de 2018. O curso obteve o patrocínio científico da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (FMUL), da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (SPC) e da Sociedade Portuguesa […]

Obituary

António Arnaut, founder of the National Health Service, has passed away

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 […]