Coutinho Maria C Azevedo

Present Positions: Attending Physician with Consultant Degree in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon. Associate Professor of the Lisbon University Medical School. Investigator of the Translational Clinical Physiology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon University Medical School. Investigator of the Cardiology Center of the Lisbon University (CCUL), Lisbon University Medical School. Postgraduate supervision (MSc, PhD) at Lisbon University Medical School. Academic Degrees: Medical Degree (MD) by the Lisbon University Medical School (1977). PhD Degree in Medicine/Cardiology by the Lisbon University Medical School (1994). Training and Education: Cardiology Internship in the Department of Cardiology of the Santa Maria University Hospital (1982-1985). Examination Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (E.C.F.M.G.; 1981) and Visa Qualifying Examination (V.Q.E.; 1984). Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery (1985-87) and Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellow in the Department of Medicine (1987-88), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York). Specialist in Cardiology by the National Board of Cardiology (1989). Licensed by Portuguese Medical Association (1990). Elective period of training in Nuclear Cardiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (Grant from Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento; 1990). Elective period of training in Nuclear Cardiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (Grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; 1991). European Cardiologist Diploma, Board by the European Society of Cardiology (2002). Scientific Societies: Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), Member of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology and of the Portuguese Association of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology. Vice President of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (2001-2003). Member of the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Computed Tomography of the European Society of Cardiology. Member of the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology, Magnetic Resonance, and Computed Tomography of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology. Member of the Working Group on Exercise Physiopathology and Cardiac Rehabilitation of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology. Note: All the publications (including papers, textbook chapters and abstracts) published in the USA, before 1995 are under my previous married name - Maria Lobo Antunes.