1. António B S Parreira
Antonio Parreira has been the Clinical Director of the
Champalimaud Clinical Centre in Lisbon since 2011. He is
also Professor of Medicine at the New University of
Lisbon Faculty of Medical Sciences, where he has taught
since 1996.
He graduated in medicine in 1972 from the University of
Lisbon Faculty of Medicine and completed his doctorate
in Medicine at the same university in 1989. From 1981 to
1990 he was a specialist in Haematology in Santa Maria
Hospital. Between 1983 and 1985, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant
holder, he was a Research Fellow at the Leukaemia Unit of the Royal Postgraduate
Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, in London. In 1989 he defended his PhD
thesis (Immunological Characterisation of Acute Leukaemias) at the University of
Lisbon, becoming Adjunct Professor of Haematology in the University of Lisbon
Faculty of Medicine in 1990.
In 1992 he applied to become head of the Haematology Service in the Portuguese
Institute of Oncology in Lisbon, ultimately assuming the direction of the Service in
1994. From 1996 to 2011 he was Associate Professor of Haematology in the New
University of Lisbon Faculty of Medical Sciences.
Between 1996 and 2004 he directed the IPOLFG Department of Medical Oncology
and, between 2004 and 2011, the Department of Haematology, accumulating
responsibilities as Director of Oncological Research at IPOLFG (2008 to 2011).
He has maintained his link to FCML since 2012 as emeritus Professor.
He is an academic member of the Portuguese National Academy of Medicine and a
member of the following scientific societies: Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences,
Portuguese Haematology Society, Spanish Haematology and Haemotherapy Society,
European Society for Medical Oncology, European Haematology Association and
American Society of Haematology.
António Parreira’s scientific interests in Oncology focus on chronic
lymphoproliferative disorders, namely CLL, indolent lymphomas and multiple
myeloma.
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Present address:
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
1400-038, Lisbon, Portugal
Phone: 351 210 480 200 (ext 4001)
E-mail: antonio.parreira@fundacaochampalimaud.pt