André
Dias Pereira
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Professor of Law at the University of Coimbra
(Portugal)
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Director of the Centre for Biomedical Law – Faculty of
Law, University of Coimbra
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Member of the National Ethics Committee for Life
Sciences
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Member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical
Trials
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Member of the Ethics Committee of the National Health
Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA)
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Vice-President
of the Institutional Review Board of AIBILI
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Member
of the Council of Bioethics of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics
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Member
of the IBMC-INEB Animal Ethics Committee (Oporto)
· Member
of the Animal Wellbeing (Faculty of Medicine – University of Coimbra/ Centre
for Neuroscience and Cell Biology)
International
level:
·
Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the
World Association for Medical Law.
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Fellow
of ECTIL (European Centre on Tort and Insurance Law - Vienna, Austria)
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Invited
Professor at the Summer School on European Private Law (Salzburg, Austria)
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Invited
Professor at the Summer School on Medical Law (Toulouse, France)
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Invited
Professor at the Summer School on Medical Law at Salerno University (Italy)
Academic qualifications:
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PhD in
Law (Summa cum laude) – title of the thesis: “Medical Liability and Patient’s Rights”
(2014)
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Master’s
Thesis: “Informed Consent in Patient-Doctor Relationship” (2003) (awarded Prof.
Manuel de Andrade II for best Master’s Thesis in Civil Law in 2003 at the
University of Coimbra)
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Post-graduation
in Civil Law (2002)
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Post-graduation
in Medical Law (1999)
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Graduation
in Law at the University of Coimbra (awarded Prof. Manuel de Andrade for best
student (1992-1997))
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Languages
skills: mother language (Portuguese), fluency in English, Spanish, German and
French.
