Altamiro da Costa Pereira

Altamiro da Costa Pereira is the Coordinator of CINTESIS, member of the Charter research group, Full Professor and Director of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP).

He graduated in Medicine from FMUP in 1983, and began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1985, while attending the Specialization in Pediatrics, at the Hospital of São João (Porto). He also participated in several postgraduate courses at the Universities of Johns Hopkins (USA), McGill (Canada) and Nijmegen (Netherlands) and finished his doctorate studies at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School – University of Dundee (Scotland), in 1993.

Altamiro da Costa Pereira has developed scientific activity in national and foreign institutions, in Epidemiology, Health Informatics, and Clinical Research, with more than 350 scientific works published. He has participated in more than 50 panels, and national and international evaluation commissions of scholarships, projects and scientific research teams, in the fields of Life & Health Sciences, and Technology, and since 1999 he is regularly invited by the European Commission to act as evaluator.

He began his academic management path in 1995 with the direction of the Biomathematics Service, which later gave rise to the Service of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (SBIM) and, eventually, to the Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences (CIDES). Since 2016 he has led the  Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision (MEDCIDS) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.