ComitÉ Consultivo Científico
Dr. Carlos Cortes
Prof. Dr. Carlos Robalo Cordeiro
Prof. Dr. David Systrom
Prof. Dr. Eliana Lacerda
Dr. Filipe Froes
Prof. Dr. Luís Graça
Prof. Dr. Luis Nacul
Prof. Dr. Nuno Sepúlveda
Dr. Susan Levine
Dr. Carlos Cortes
Specialist in Pathology and current President of the Portuguese Medical Association, former director of the Clinical Pathology service at the Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo.
Prof. Dr. Carlos Robalo Cordeiro
Director of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, Head of the Pulmonology Department at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre, and President of the Council of Portuguese Medical Schools.
Prof. Dr. David Systrom
Scientific Co-Chair, Co-Director of The Ronald G. Tompkins Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration at the Harvard Affiliated Hospitals within the Open Medicine Foundation network. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiopulmonary Laboratory, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Prof. Dr. Eliana Lacerda
Assistant Professor (Clinical) and part of the CureME team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Clinical Director of the ME/CFS Biobank and former Vice-Chair of EUROMENE, a nonprofit research organization of the European Union committed to identifying the cause and treatment of ME/CFS.
Dr. Filipe Froes
Specialist in Pulmonology and Intensive Care Medicine, with a PhD in Public Health.
Member of the National Council of Public Health and the Advisory Committee on Public Health Emergencies of the European Commission.
Prof. Dr. Luís Graça
Full Professor of Immunology, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon, Director of the Immunology Research Group at the GIMM - Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine. He is the Coordinator of the Technical Committee for COVID-19 and Influenza Vaccination, former President of the Portuguese Society of Immunology, and former President of the Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa, the oldest medical society in Europe (founded in 1822).
Prof. Dr. Luis Nacul
Clinical Associate Professor and Researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Former Research Director of the Complex Chronic Diseases Program at British Columbia Women’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. International Advisor to the Canadian Collaborative Network on ME/CFS and former member of the UK NICE Guideline Development Committee.
Prof. Dr. Nuno Sepúlveda
Nuno is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of the Warsaw University of Technology. He is a long-standing colaborator of the CEAUL – Centre for Statistics and its Applications of the University of Lisbon. He currently leads the Biometrical Section of the Portuguese Statistical Society. In recent years he received funding from the British charity ME Research UK and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) to study the role of antiviral antibodies on the pathogenesis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He also represented Portugal in the European network EUROMENE, where he integrated its executive board and the working group dedicated to the study of ME/CFS epidemiology in Europe.
Dr. Susan Levine
Infectious disease clinician specializing in ME/CFS. Clinician for the Center for Enervating Neuroimmune Disease at Cornell University, New York, and member of the Working Group that provides expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.