IALM Venice 2016

WAML Workshop

CV André Pereira

André PEREIRA

André Pereira is Professor of Law at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), where he also holds a Master of Laws about “Informed Consent” and a PhD in Law under the title “Patients’ Rights and Medical Liability”. He is Director of the Centre for Biomedical Law and Researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research. Besides being member of several Ethics Committees (Vice-President of the Institutional Review Board of AIBILI; Council of Bioethics of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics; IBMC-INEB Animal Ethics Committee (Oporto) and Animal Ethics Committee of the University of Coimbra), he is Member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical Research and was elected by the National Parliament as Member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. At the International level, Pereira published in international journals and books and is Fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (Austria), Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the World Association for Medical Law, and he was elected in 2015 as member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Short CV - English

André PEREIRA

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

·      Director of the Centre for Biomedical Law

·      Researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research

·      Member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical Research

·      Member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences

·      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) and Member of ORBEA - Animal Ethics Committee of the University of Coimbra

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

·      Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the World Association for Medical Law