{"id":2588,"date":"2024-08-08T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/corpo-clinico\/luiz-menezes-falcao-cardiologist"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:51:34","slug":"luiz-menezes-falcao-cardiologist","status":"publish","type":"corpo-clinico","link":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/clinical-staff\/luiz-menezes-falcao-cardiologist","title":{"rendered":"Luiz Menezes Falc\u00e3o &#8211; Cardiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Specialty<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/consultas\/cardiology\">Cardiology<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Professional Career<\/h2>\n<div>Department of Internal Medicine Consultant, University Hospital Santa Maria\/CHULN (until August 5th 2022)<\/div>\n<div>MD, PhD, Cardiologist and Internal Medicine Consultant, University Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal<\/div>\n<div>Clinical Professor, Lisbon University Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal (since 2004 &#8211; ).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>MD-Lisbon University Medical School in 1977.<\/div>\n<div>PhD in Cardiology &#8211; Lisbon University Medical School in 2003.<br \/>\n(Doctoral thesis on heart failure with left ventricular systolic dysfunction). <\/div>\n<div>Internal Medicine Internship at the University Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon<\/div>\n<div>Cardiology Internship at the University Hospital Santa Maria and Hospital Santa Cruz, Lisbon.<\/div>\n<div>Clinical training in Paris, France; London and Oxford, United Kingdom; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands.<\/div>\n<div>Internal Medicine Consultant and cardiologist of the Internal Medicine I Department (Several years as Head of<\/div>\n<div>Sector C and afterwards of Sector D) of the University Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal<\/div>\n<div>Occupational health degree from the Portuguese School of Public Health.<\/div>\n<div>Lecturer of the Lisbon NOVA Medical School and of the Lisbon University Medical School (1977-2003).<\/div>\n<div>Clinical Professor, Lisbon University Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal (since April 2004 -).<br \/>\nTeaching professor in the master degree of Metabolic Disorders and Eating Behaviour (Heart Failure and Stroke). <\/div>\n<div>Supervisor of student for the Master degree and for the PhD degree in Internal Medicine (Heart Failure).<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Doctoral Examination Jury of PhD students in Portugal and abroad.<\/div>\n<div>Head of staff of Medical Emergency Team of the University Hospital Santa Maria since July 1998 until March 2014.<\/div>\n<div>Clinical cardiologist of the Medical Emergency Team of the University Hospital Santa Maria since July 1990 until March the 31st 2014.<\/div>\n<div>Resident cardiologist of Cardiology Intensive Care Unit (UTIC), University Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon since<\/div>\n<div>1987 until 2005.<\/div>\n<div>Responsible for transthoracic echocardiography exams in the Internal Medicine I sector C Department of the HSM<\/div>\n<div>since June 1990 until July 2015 and in the sector D since July 2015 until October 2020.<\/div>\n<div>Outpatients clinic of Hypertension (and Heart Failure) attending physician in the HSM since January 1999 until<\/div>\n<div>August 5th 2022<\/div>\n<div>Cardiologist of the IASFA (Non invasive cardiology &#8211; Outpatients consultation, EGG, Doppler echocardiography,<\/div>\n<div>24H ECG Holter monitoring) &#8211; since June 1990 until December 2020.<\/div>\n<div>European Cardiologist of the European Society of Cardiology (since 2000)<\/div>\n<div>Clinical Hypertension specialist of the European Society of Hypertension (Since 2001)<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Medical College of Cardiology of the Portuguese Medical Association.<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Medical College of Internal Medicine of the Portuguese Medical Association.<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (SPC).<\/div>\n<div>Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Portuguese Association of Internal Medicine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Author of more than 190 presentations (either oral or in poster) in national scientific meetings or within the framework of his teaching activity in the Lisbon University Medical School<\/div>\n<div>Author of 90 presentations in international scientific meetings, 30 of them as first author.<\/div>\n<div>Author of 146 papers in national and international medical journals and books, around 30 as first author.From them, author of 122 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books.<\/div>\n<div>Editor of two medical books on heart failure, one of them in English (Current Diagnosis and Treatment In Heart Failure).<br \/>\nThe latter was in co-edition with Prof. Peter van Zwieten.Academic Medical Center.University of Amsterdam.The Netherlands <\/div>\n<div>Editor of one book on clinical diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.<\/div>\n<div>Awarded the BIAL prize of Clinical Medicine 1994 as co-author of &#8220;Arterial Hypertension in the elderly&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Cardiovascular Center of the University of Lisbon (CCUL) since July 1998.<\/div>\n<div>Associate member of the Institute of Environmental Health (ISAMB).University of Lisbon since December 2013.<\/div>\n<div>Head of Working Group on Cardiology and Heart Failure.<br \/>\nBento da Rocha Cabral Scientific Institute.<br \/>\nLisbon.  <\/div>\n<div>Member of the Scientific Council of the Journal of Internal Medicine &#8220;Minerva&#8221; (from 2009 until 2012).<\/div>\n<div>Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiology and Therapy (ISSN 2309-6861)<\/div>\n<div>Reviewer for the International Journal of Cardiology; Journal of Cardiology and Therapy; Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy; Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics; JSM Clinical and Medical Imaging; PLOS (Public Library of Science) one; Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo; Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia; Revista Medicina Interna da Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Interna; Acta Medica Portuguesa; Acta Medica Academica.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","especialidade":[48],"class_list":["post-2588","corpo-clinico","type-corpo-clinico","status-publish","hentry","especialidade-cardiologist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo-clinico\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo-clinico"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/corpo-clinico"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"especialidade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/especialidade?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}