Executive Committee
Dr. António Vaz Carneiro
Dr. Germano de Sousa
Dr. Jaime Branco
Dra. Joan Serra Hoffman
Prof. Dr. António Vaz Carneiro
With 40 years of professional experience in Portugal and the United States of America, António Vaz Carneiro is a Physician specializing in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology, and is also a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, where he chairs the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare. He is a Clinical Researcher with special interest in the areas of secondary research (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), as well as methodologies for translating knowledge into practice, overuse of health resources, applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and research in Precision Medicine/Big Data. He is also the Director of Cochrane Portugal.
Prof. Doutor Germano de Sousa
Clinical Pathologist, Professor and Director of the College of Postgraduate Studies at the Atlantic University, Director of the Clinical Pathology Service at the Fernando Fonseca Hospital, Advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences, President of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Chemistry and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences for 20 years, where he founded the Master's Degree in Chemical Pathology and was responsible for graduate studies. He is Director of the Clinical Pathology Services and has been President of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Pathology, the Portuguese Society of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Diseases and the National Association of Clinical Laboratories. He was also President of the Portuguese Medical Association from January 1999 to February 2005, elected for three terms.
Prof. Dr. Jaime Branco
Specialist in Rheumatology and Director of the Rheumatology Service at Hospital Egas Moniz since 2006. He is a full professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and served as director of the FCM from 2013 to 2021. Author and co-author of hundreds of scientific publications and is a Principal Investigator in Rheumatology at CEDOC of FCM. He has received 92 scientific awards, including the BIAL Prize for Clinical Medicine 2008, the BIAL Grand Prize for Medicine 2016 and the Reuméritus Prize of the Portuguese Society of Rheumatology in 2010.
Dra. Joan Serra Hoffman
Co-founder of Aliança Millions Missing with over 30 years of experience bridging the gap between research, policy, and practice, and promoting evidence-informed approaches to address complex health and social challenges. She served as a special assistant at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), directing a national program of 10 academic centers of excellence in youth violence prevention. Founding co-director of the Inter-American Coalition for Violence Prevention, which promoted a public health approach and coordination between WHO/PAHO, USAID, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, CDC and UNESCO. Elected a Next Generation Fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation for her work in public hospitals, Level 1 trauma centers, and public health departments with victims of violence. Retired from the World Bank due to ME/CFS.