Coordinator of Integrated Master in Medicine
Coordinator CU: Gestures and Clinical Practice I
Category: Full Professor
E-mail: lucios@ufp.edu.pt

Education and qualifications

• Consultant (attending) surgeon (2022).
• Habilitation degree in Medicine and Oncology by the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal (2019).
• PhD in Medicine by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal. Thesis: Molecular Changes in the Progression of Superficial Urothelial and Papillary Carcinomas of the Bladder. (2003).
• Master in Oncobiology (MSc) by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal. Thesis: Study of glycosylation, cell proliferation and DNA content in premalignant gastric carcinoma lesions (1993).
• Medical Degree (MD) by Faculty of Medicine of the University of Angola (1985), with equivalence in Medicine from University Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (1990).
  

Professional activities

• Head of Surgical Oncology Department of Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal.
• Head of Intermediate Care Unit of Surgery of Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal.
• Head of Experimental Pathology and Therapeutics Group of research centre of Portuguese Institute of Oncology; Porto, Portugal.
• Member of Molecular Tumor Board of Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal.
• Member of Early Clinical Trials Service of Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal.
• Surgical Oncologist at Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal.
• Professor of surgical oncology at Fernando Pessoa University and Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal.
  

Other relevant activities

• PPresident of Surgical Oncology Chapter of Sociedade Portuguesa de Oncologia (SO-SPO).
• Editor in Chief of Scientific Journal of Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia.
• Research member of Porto Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Rise, Portugal.
• Member of leading committee of Grupo Português de Investigação do Cancro Digestivo (GICD).
• Member of Oncology Group of Africa Portuguese speaking countries and African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC).
  

Field of work

• Surgical Oncology (breast, GI and Hepatic, pancreatic and biliary cancer).
• Translation research in oncology and Surgical risk predictive scores is surgical oncology.
• Organization of oncology units in low-income countries.
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