MD PhD
Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto/UMIB/ICBAS - Unit for Multidisciplinary Investigation in Biomedicine- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Fernanda Leite M.D. PhD- MD in 1987 – Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto (FMUP). PhD in Metabolism, FMUP 2017 . Teacher of Medicine at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) since 2019.
Transfusion Medicine specialist since 1996. Direction and foundation of a Transfusion Service in a districtal Hospital in the North of Portugal between 1998 and 2003. Consultant in Transfusion Medicine since 2005 in a Central, academical Hospital in Porto (Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto - CHUP). Member of Hepatic and Reno pancreatic Transplantation Team in CHP since 1997 and 2000 respectively. Clinical Haematology coordinator of this team from 2008 till 2011. Coordinator of virus markers in the blood bank of CHP from 2003 till 2012. Since 2012 consultant in Thrombosis and Hemostasis of Clinical Hematology department.
Prizes and Grants
Prize- Boston – American Association of Blood Banks- 2012- TOP POSTER ABSTRACT-entitled “Does Obesity Matter in a Blood Donor Population?”
Honorable Mention of Basic Investigation with the work: Fernanda Leite, Ana Santos, Margarida Lima, Maximiliano Legnaro, Franca Marino, Marco Cosentino, Laura Ribeiro: “Immune cells dopaminergic receptors and tyrosine hydroxylase expression in obesity” (24th November 2013- by the Portuguese Society for the study of obesity SPEO)
Investigator´s Grant (2014) by the European and the International Societies of Hypertension together with the Scientific Committee of the Joint Meeting ESH-ISH Hypertension, Athens, Greece.
Travel awards by the American Society of Cell Biology in 2012 and 2013: http://ascb.org/meetings/program/web/files/assets/basic-html/page28.html
AFFILIATIONS:
Clinical Haematology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP), Portugal
UMIB/ICBAS - Unit for Multidisciplinary Investigation in Biomedicine- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar
Monday, July 11, 2022
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM