Autores

Licenciado, Mestre e Doutorado em Medicina (Medicina Legal), pela Universidade de  Coimbra. Especialista e assistente graduado em Medicina Legal. Presidente do  Colégio da Especialidade de Medicina Legal da Ordem dos Médicos. Professor Associado com Agregação e Sub-director da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra. Desempenhou funções de Director da Delegação do Centro e Vice-Presidente do Conselho Directivo do Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, bem como membro do Conselho Médico-Legal. Foi Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética Humana, co-Presidente do 21st International Congress da International Society for Forensic Genetics, Coordenador da Comissão que elaborou o projecto de Lei sobre a Base de Dados de Perfis de ADN. Representou Portugal na EDNAP (European DNA Profiling Group) e no Prum Treaty DNA Technical Working Group. Foi Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Avaliação do Dano Corporal, Deputy do European Council of Legal Medicine, Sócio-Fundador do Centro de Estudos de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Legal e membro da Direcção do Centro de Ciências Forenses.

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Having earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in Medicine (Legal Medicine) from the University of Coimbra, Francisco Manuel de Andrade Corte-Real Gonçalves is a specialist and graduate assistant in forensic medicine. President of the College of Forensic Medicine Specialty of the Portuguese Medical Association, associate professor with agregacão, and deputy director of the University of Coimbra’s Faculty of Medicine, he was director of the Delegation of the Centre and vice-chairman of the board of directors of the National Institute of Legal Medicine, as well as a member of the Legal Medical Council. Franciso Corte-Real was president of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics, co-president of the 21st International Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics, coordinator of the commission that undertook the law project on the DNA Profiles Database. He represented Portugal at EDNAP (European DNA Profiling Group) and the Prum Treaty DNA Technical Working Group. He was president of the Portuguese Association for the Evaluation of Body Damage, deputy of the European Council of Legal Medicine, founding member of the Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Legal Medicine, and board member of the Centre for Forensic Sciences.