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Parallel Session

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by Fundação Pulido Valente

Fundação Pulido Valente

This is an initiative of Fundação Francisco Pulido Valente aiming to promote the dialogue between participants at the AIMS Meeting 2026 and our guests. Starting from previously posed questions, participants will have the possibility to engage in relaxed conversations with our guests, profitting from their knowledge and experience in a wide range of scientific and professional areas.

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Methodology and Logistics

The organization has made three spaces available with tables and chairs in more sheltered areas, in the atrium on the entrance floor of the Egas Moniz building, so that during the two-hour period in which the poster presentations of the contest promoted by AIMS take place (on April 16 between 2:30 PM and 4:30 PM), it is possible for the Foundation to carry out this initiative. The tables with some chairs will be in a space properly identified with a video system where there will be information running about the Foundation (video in loop). The existence of a XBanner with general information about the Awards given by the Foundation is planned.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

António Fernando Correia de Campos was born in the village of Torredeita (Viseu) in 1942. He holds a degree in law, a degree in hospital administration from the École Nationale de la Santé Publique de Rennes, a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, USA, and participated in public competitions for assistant professor, associate professor and full professor at Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública in Lisbon, later integrated into Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from which he retired in 2009. He was elected a member of the Portuguese Parliament in 1991, of the European Parliament in 2009, and appointed President of the Economic and Social Council by the Portuguese Parliament from 2016 until 2020. He was Secretary of State for Health in 1975 and in 1979 and Health Minister twice, in 2001-2002 and 2005-2008. He chaired the Instituto Nacional de Administração from 1996 to 2001 and from 2008 to 2009. Honoris Causa from ISCTE University, in 2020. Woodrow Wilson Award, from the Alumni Association, Johns Hopkins University, 2016. He chairs the Board of Trustees of the University of Aveiro and the Friends Council of the Joaquim dos Santos Foundation, in Torredeita.

  1. Health economics
  2. Health policies
  3. Future of the national health system – Public|Private interface

António Correia de Campos

Francisca Pulido Valente

Francisca Pulido Valente is a Public Health physician at Unidade Local de Saúde Amadora/Sintra and a WHO/Europe consultant on the EVID-ACTION project, in the field of alcohol policies. She began training in Gastroenterology, later transitioning to Public Health. She completed a Master’s degree in Public Health at NOVA School of Public Health and is finalizing a master’s in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

  1. Decisions when choosing a medical specialty
  2. Public Health in contemporary practice
  3. Connection to international institutions

Isabel do Carmo holds a degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Former director of the Endocrinology Service at Santa Maria Hospital. Author of political and medical books.

  1. Vitamin D
  2. Injections for obesity
  3. Sex undefined at birth, Sex, gender, and sexual orientation

Isabel do Carmo

João Lavinha

João Lavinha (born in Rio de Mouro, Sintra, Portugal, 1949) retired, as senior researcher, in 2019 from Head of the Research & Development Unit, Human Genetics Department, National Institute of Health Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Lisboa, Portugal. He has held other positions at INSA over the years, e.g., Head, Centre for Human Genetics (2005-2008); Director-general (2000-2004); and Head, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Human Genetics Department (1993-2000). He received his Provas para Investigador Auxiliar (equivalent to PhD) from INSA (1994), and his MSc (Medical Science) from the University of Glasgow (1983), having previously graduated (BSc) in Pharmacy and Chemistry from the University of Lisboa (1969, 1977, respectively). He is (co)-author of 117 papers, 83 of which in international peer-reviewed journals. His research interests included molecular etio-pathogenesis and epidemiology of rare genetic diseases, genetics of disease susceptibility, public health genomics and genetics of the response to environmental stressors in human-relevant models. He served in the Portuguese National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (2005-12), the Portuguese National Council for Science & Technology (2012-15) and Portuguese Clinical Research Ethics Review Board (2016-20). He has been elected to the board of the European Society of Human Genetics (1997-2002) and chaired the Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética Humana (2004-2006).

  1. Rare genetic diseases
  2. Genomic medicine
  3. Epigenetics (genes x environment interplay)

Nuno Cortez-Dias is a Cardiologist specialized in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Hospital of Santa Maria. He has focused on the investigation and treatment of complex arrhythmias, with particular interest in ventricular tachycardia, atypical flutter, and atrial fibrillation. He is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches in various disciplines in both basic and clinical areas. The project that most distinguishes him, and for which he is most recognized by students, is the teaching of Electrocardiography, for which he has been responsible since 2005 — initially through an extracurricular course and, since 2019, as a discipline integrated into the curriculum. Additionally, he is a lecturer in international Electrophysiology programs, such as the Interventional Electrophysiology Curriculum (Brussels) and ATLAS – Advanced Atrial Tachycardia Localization and Mapping Strategies (USA). Since 2018, he has been the director of the EP2 – Experience the Power of Electrophysiology program, based at the Abbott Advanced Training Centre in Brussels.

  1. The role of AI in the transformation of Medicine
  2. Networking in advanced training during and after specialization
  3. New frontiers in Cardiology in the context of the technological revolution

Nuno Cortez-Dias

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