M. Sobrinho Simões

Name: Manuel A.C. Sobrinho-Simões
Birth date: September 8,  1947
Birth place: Porto, Portugal
Nationality: Portuguese

Education and career:  
1971: MD, Medical Faculty, Porto, Portugal
1976: Board Certificate in Pathology, Portuguese Medical Association, Porto
1979: Doctor in Medicine (Anatomic Pathology), Medical Faculty of Porto 
1979-1980: Post-doc in the Norwegian Institute for Cancer Research/Radium Hospital, Oslo
1985: Professorship in Medicine (Anatomic Pathology), Medical Faculty of Porto

Present academic appointments:      
1988-  : Full Professor, Anatomic Pathology, Medical Faculty of Porto
1989-  : Chief of Service, Anatomic Pathology, University  Hospital  of S.João, Porto
1989-  : Chairman, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP)
1990-  : Adjunct Professor of  Pathology and Cell Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
2001-  : Director, Dept of Pathology, Medical Faculty of the University of Porto

Other present  appointments:
1994-  : Member, Scientific Council of the European Association for Cancer Prevention (ECP)
1999-  : Member, Technical Committee for the Reform of Medical Education in Portugal
2001-  : Past-President, European Society of Pathology (ESP)
2003-  : Member, Scientific Council of the Working Group of Endocrine Pathology, European Society of Pathology
2004-  : Director, Master Course on Molecular Medicine and Oncology. Medical Faculty, Unviersity of Porto

Previous appointments:
1985-1989: Chairman, Advisory Council of the European Society of Pathology (ESP)
1987-1993: Member, Council of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)
1989-1997: General Secretary, European Society of Pathology (ESP)
1989-1996: Member, Health Sciences Committee of the National Agency for Research and Development (JNICT)
1990-1996: Director, Master Course on Oncobiology, Medical Faculty, University of Porto (substituted by GABBA Programme)
1990-1999: Member, Scientific Council of the European Course in Cell Pathology (EUROCELLPATH)  
1991-1999: Member, Scientific Council of the European School of Pathology (EScoP)
1997-1999: President-elect, European Society of Pathology (ESP)
1997-2001: Co-coordinator, Doctoral Programme on Areas of Basic and Applied Biology of the University of Porto (GABBA Programme)
1999-2001: Member, Advisory Council of Porto 2001 (European Cultural Capital)
1999-2001: President, European Society of Pathology (ESP)
2001-2002: Chairman, Program for Research Initiation in Health Sciences of the University of Porto
2001-2004: Director, Master Course on Molecular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Porto
2002-2004: Director, Master Course on Molecular Oncology, Medical Faculty, University of Porto

Editorial Boards (International Journals):
Journal of Pathology  (Wiley); Ultrastructural Pathology (Taylor & Francis); Patologia (Spanish Society of Pathology); Pathology Research & Practice (Gustav Fischer Verlag); Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology  (W.B. Saunders); Endocrine  Pathology (Blackwell Scientific Publications); Histopathology (Blackwell Scientific Publications); International Journal of Surgical Pathology (Churchill Livingstone); Current Diagnostic Pathology (Churchill Livingstone); Virchows Archiv (Springer Verlag); European Journal of Cancer Prevention (Oxford Communications); Advances in Anatomic Pathology (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins).
 

Publications:
About 300 Original Papers, Reviews, Case-reports and Letters-to-the-Editor in peer reviewed international journals, and 20 Books, Chapters and Suplements edited in Europe, USA and Japan.
His papers have received more than 6000 citations. His factor h is over 40.

Other activities and honors:
• Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the XII European Congress of Pathology (Porto, 1989)
• Coordinator of the Courses on Thyroid Pathology of the European School of Pathology (Turin, 1992 and 2002) and Ankara (2003).
• Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the VI European Course in Cell Pathology (Caminha, 1996)
• Lecturer in every European Congress of Pathology since 1981,  in most International Congresses of IAP  and SLAP since 1988,  in numerous Meetings of the  Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, German, Polish, Russian, Brasilian  and  Argentinian  Divisions of IAP  and in several Congresses of the National Societies of Pathology and/or Cytopathology of Portugal, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, Argentina and Brasil, as well as in numerous International meetings focusing on Thyroid pathology,  Gastric tumours, Ultrastructural pathology and Molecular pathology of cancer.
• Visiting Professor in about 25 Universities and Institutes of Oncology mainly in Europe but also in USA, South America, Asia and Africa.
• Member of Academic Juris in the Unviersities of Santiago de Compostela, Classica de Barcelona, Free University of Amsterdam, Ghent, Trinity College, Universidade de São Paulo, Unviersidade Federal do Ceará and Oslo University.
• Expert on Molecular Pathology for the American Board of Pathology (S. Francisco, August 2001)
• Co-author of the third edition of the WHO Book on Tumours of Endocrine Organs (2004).
• Honorary Member  of  the Medical Academy  of Catalonia and Baleares (Barcelona,  1988),  Brasilian Society of Cancerology (Rio de Janeiro, 1997), Spanish Society of Pathology (Madrid, 1998), Círculo Médico de Cordoba (Argentina, 2000), Medical Faculty of the University of Zhengzhou (China, 2002) , Portuguese Society of Endocrinoly (2004), Portuguese Society of Surgery (2005) and Medical Academy of Brazil (2005).

• Prizes: Prémio Bordalo for Science (1996), Prémio Seiva for Science (2002) and Premio Pessoa – National Prize for Culture & Science (2002).

• Honours: Gold Medal of Arouca Municipality (2001), Merit Medal of the Portuguese Red Cross (2002), Gold Medal of the City of Porto (2003), Officer of The Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (2003) and Great Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique (2004).