Fernando José Figueiredo Agostinho d’Abreu Mendes

PhD

 

President EPBS (Portugal)

  • ▪ Fernando Mendes graduated in Biomedical Science (BMS) in 1994, in 2010 earned a Master Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology and in 2016, a PhD degree in Health Sciences.
    ▪ Fernando started to work as Biomedical Scientist (BMs) in 1994 at Hospital Figueira da Foz (blood bank) and for 14 years he worked and specialized in Transfusion Science. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Coimbra Health School, Head of Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences and Vice-President of the Scientific Technical Committee of Coimbra Health School. He lectured in several European Higher Educations Institutions under the ERASMUS+ program.
    ▪ Fernando Mendes is in the Management Body of EPBS since 2001, were he was elected for several positions and worked towards the production of Internal Regulations, registration of EPBS in Belgium and Policy documents. In 2018 Fernando was elected as President of EPBS.
    ▪ Fernando has participated in more than 200 National and International congresses, in more than 20 Continuous professional development courses and as trainee in around 50, presented around 120 scientific and professional lectures in congresses and is co-author in more than 25 scientific papers. He has also participated in several Scientific and organizing committee of congresses.
    ▪ He collaborates with the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine from Ireland and the Agency for Science and Higher Education of Croatia as European member of the expert panel for accreditation of BMS programs.
    ▪ Fernando’s main areas of scientific research currently are transfusion medicine, health literacy, cell culture and cancer.

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