Curriculum Vitae - André Dias Pereira

André Dias Pereira

andreper@fd.uc.pt

·      Professor of Law at the University of Coimbra (Portugal)

·      Director of the Centre for Biomedical Law – Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra

·      Member of the National Ethics Committee for Life Sciences

·      Member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials

·      Member of the Ethics Committee of the National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) 

·      Vice-President of the Institutional Review Board of AIBILI

·      Member of the Council of Bioethics of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics

·      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.

·      Fellow of ECTIL (European Centre on Tort and Insurance Law - Vienna, Austria)

·      Invited Professor at the Summer School on European Private Law (Salzburg, Austria)

·      Invited Professor at the Summer School on Medical Law (Toulouse, France)

·      Invited Professor at the Summer School on Medical Law at Salerno University (Italy)

Academic qualifications:

·      PhD in Law (Summa cum laude) – title of the thesis:  “Medical Liability and Patient’s Rights” (2014)

·      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)

·      Post-graduation in Civil Law (2002)

·      Post-graduation in Medical Law (1999)

·      Graduation in Law at the University of Coimbra (awarded Prof. Manuel de Andrade for best student (1992-1997))

·      Languages skills: mother language (Portuguese), fluency in English, Spanish, German and French.