Altamiro da Costa Pereira, coordinator of CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, is the new Director of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). The Clinical Investigation and Health Services specialist was elected today, October 4, by the Faculty’s Council of Representatives for a four-year term (2018-2022) office.
During the public hearing that preceded the election, the current coordinator of CINTESIS highlighted the need to decentralize the management of the Faculty, to articulate this institution with other entities and with society in general, and to hold the different actors involved in departmental and faculty management accountable. The FMUP’s elected director also identified as one of the main objectives for the next four years term the creation of conditions so that “FMUP works in a network, maximizing its contribution in articulation with other units of education and research for life and health sciences “.
Besides coordinating CINTESIS – a multidisciplinary and multinational research unit, which comprises about 500 researchers from 46 institutions, all over the country – Altamiro da Costa Pereira is also a Full Professor and Director of the Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision (MEDCIDS) at FMUP.
Altamiro da Costa Pereira was born in Porto. He graduated in Medicine from FMUP in 1983 and began his academic career as an Assistant Trainee in Epidemiology and Public Health in 1985. He attended the specialization in Pediatrics at the Hospital of São João (in Porto), participated in several postgraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University (USA), at McGill University (Canada), and at Nijmegen University (Netherlands), and completed his PhD studies at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School – University of Dundee (Scotland) in 1993.
He has developed scientific activity in national and foreign institutions, in the areas of Epidemiology, Medical Informatics and Clinical Research, and has authored about 350 scientific works. He has participated in more than 50 panels and commissions to evaluate national and international scholarships, projects and scientific research teams in the fields of life and health sciences and technology, and, since 1999, has been regularly invited by the European Commission to act as evaluator.
He was recently reelected as a member of the General Council of the University of Porto, earning the highest number of professors and researchers from all over the University.