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.
