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Dr. Medeiros-Neto,
MD, FACP, was born in 1936 and graduated from the University of
Sao Paulo Medical School in 1959. After receiving a fellowship in
Nuclear Medicine (Hospital das Clinicas) and the James Picker
Foundation Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in 1963 and 1964, Dr.
Medeiros-Neto became assistant Professor of Medicine in 1965 at
the University of Sao Paulo Medical School. He received his
doctorate in Medicine in 1967 and was appointed Professor of
Medicine (University of Sao Paulo School) in 1973. Since 1965,
Dr. Medeiros-Neto has served as head of Thyroid Laboratory at the
University of Sao Paulo Medical School' Hospital das Clinicas.
His research has been in the area of endemic goiter and
cretinism, thyroid dishormonogenesis, nutritional and growth
disorders. Dr. Medeiros-Neto has published over 210 papers in
several national and international journals and authored or
co-authored 10 books on Thyroid Disease and Nutrition Disorders.
He is also editor of "Frontiers in Thyroidology"
published by Plenum Press, New York (1986) containing the papers
presented at the 9th International Thyroid Congress and
contributed with chapters to leading text books such as DeGroot's
"Endocrinology" and Ingbar & Braverman "The
Thyroid". Member of key Endocrine and Thyroid Societies in
the USA, ASIA, EUROPE and LATIN AMERICA, he has received several
prizes for this research work including the International LATS
award of 1980. He was one of the founders and served as its first
President of the Latin American Thyroid Society in
1974–1978, and was Organizer for the 9th International
Thyroid Congress that was held in Sao Paulo (1985). With R.
Maciel and A. Halpern he edited "Iodine Deficiency Disorders
and Congenital Hypothyroidism", Aché, 1986. He joined in
1985, the Executive Committee of the International Council for
Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders – (ICCIDD). He was
indicated as Professor Adjunct of the University of Miami,
Department of Medicine (1986).
Admitted as Fellow of the American College of Physicians (1986). Editor of the book "Obesity, a new Metabolic Frontier" (1987). President of the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity (1987) and Chairman of the Board (1989). Member of the Council of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (1987–1990). Member of the editorial Board of leading medical journals in his specialty such as "Endocrinology", "Journal of Endocrinological Investigation", "Thyroid" and "Arch Bras Endocr and Metab". Elected Governor of the American College of Physicians Affiliate Region of Brazil (1991–1995). President of the V Latin American Thyroid Congress (1991). Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, Dept. of Medicine in February, 1992-1994. Elected Member of the Academy of Medicine (Sao Paulo) in June 1992. Elected as Director Treasurer of the "Academia de Medicina de São Paulo" in August 1993. Published the book "Inherited disorders of the thyroid system", CRC Press, 1994. Visiting Professor and Lecturer, University of Chile, Santiago, 1995. Received the prize "ACADEMIA DE MEDICINA" 1995 and the "Paul Starr Award" (ATA) in 1996.Organizer and chairman of the International Symposium on Thyroid Nodules (1997) and the 4th International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (1999). Research Interests Iodide deficiency disorders and its consequences. Naturally occurring goitrogens. Genetic defects in thyroid metabolism: Pathophysiology and molecular biological studies. Resistance to thyroid hormone Membership in Professional Societies American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society, European Thyroid Association, Société Française d'Endocrinologie, Sociedade Chilena de Endocrinologia, Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabologia, Sociedade Latino-Americana de Tireóide, Associaçao Brasileira para o Estudo da Obesidade. Honorary Member of the "Academia de Medicina", Santiago, Chile. Certification Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Licensure CREMESP 8870, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Present position Professor of Endocrinology, Dept. of Medicine, Member of the Board, Dept. Medicine. Chief, Thyroid Unit (Molecular and Cellular Biology Labs), Hosp Clinicas Univ Sao Paulo Medical School |
