Executive COMMITTEE
With 40 years of professional experience in Portugal and the US, António Vaz Carneiro is a Medical Doctor holding specialist degrees in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology.
He is a Retired Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMUL) where he directs the Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare.
He is a Clinical Researcher with special interest in the areas of secondary research (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), methodologies of translation of knowledge into practice, overutilization of health resources, applications of Artificial intelligence in Medicine and research in Precision Medicine/Big Data.
Prof. Vaz Carneiro is the Head of Cochrane Portugal.
Specialist in Rheumatology and Director of the Rheumatology Department at the Egas Moniz Hospital since 2006.
He is a full professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and served as director of FCM from 2013 to 2021.
He has authored and co-authored hundreds of scientific publications and is Principal Investigator in Rheumatology at the FCM´s CEDOC. He has received 92 scientific awards, including the BIAL Prize for Clinical Medicine 2008, the BIAL Grand Prize for Medicine 2016 and the Reuméritus Prize from the Portuguese Society of Rheumatology in 2010.
Cofounder of Millions Missing Aliança and ME/CFS Task Force coordinator in Myos. She has a PhD in public policy. Served as special assistant at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directing a national program of 10 academic centers of excellence in youth violence prevention.
Founding co-director of the Inter-American Coalition for Violence Prevention, which promoted a public health approach an coordination between WHO/PAHO, USAID, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the CDC and UNESCO.
Elected Next Generation Fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation for her work in public hospitals, level 1 trauma centers and public health departments with victims of violence. Retired from the World Bank due to ME/CFS.
Scientific ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Scientific co-chair, Co-director of The Ronald G. Tompkins Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration at the Harvard Affiliated Hospitals within the Open Medicine Foundation network; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiopulmonary laboratory, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Portuguese representative in the European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE) and member of the Portuguese Society for Statistics, Centre for Statistical Methodology and Malaria Centre from the LSHTM.
Infectious disease clinician working with ME/CFS patients, clinician for the Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease at Cornell University, New York and is a member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.
Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Centro Hospitalar de S. João (Ret.), Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, of Porto Medical School, Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology.
Director of the University of Coimbra Medical School, Director of Pneumology department of the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, President of the European Respiratory Society.
Prof. Dr. Luis Nacul, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. International Advisor to the Canadian Collaborative Network on ME/CFS and former member of the UK NICE Guideline Development Committee.
Clinical Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and Clinical Director and of the UK ME/CFS Biobank (UKMEB) biomedical facility.
Full Professor of Immunology, Principal Investigator at Institute of Molecular Medicine, and Vice-Dean University of Lisbon Medical School. Chairs the National Advisory Group for COVID-19 Vaccination. Former President of the Portuguese Society of Immunology and the Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa, the oldest in Europe (established in 1822).
Pulmonologist and specialist in Intensive Care Medicine, Consultant to the General Directorate of Health (DGS), member of the Task Force for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Coordinator of the Medical Association’s Crisis Office for Covid-19, and member of the National Public Health Council.
Clinical Pathologist, Full Professor, and Director of the Postgraduate Teaching College at Universidade Atlântica and Director of the Clinical Pathology Service at Hospital Fernando Fonseca. He serves as advisor to the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences, chairs the Portuguese Society of Clinical Chemistry and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences for 20 years, founded and directed the Master’s Course in Chemical Pathology and was a member of the Graduate Studies Office at the same faculty. He chaired the Portuguese Society of Clinical Pathology, the Portuguese Society of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Diseases and the National Association of Clinical Laboratories.
President of the Portuguese Medical Association between 1999 and 2005, elected for three terms.
Pathologist and President of the Portuguese Medical Association, former director of Clinical Pathology at Médio Tejo Hospital Centre.
MD PhD Senior Consultant and Full Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto.
Coordinator of the Respiratory Medicine Unit of Instituto CUF Porto, Secretary of the European Respiratory Society in Respiratory Intensive Care.
Former Director of São João University Hospital Sleep Laboratory and NIV unit (Porto, Portugal), and Medical Director at REMEO (Linde AG, Germany)