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É professor catedrático na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra onde rege disciplinas no âmbito da patologia cirúrgica. Dirigiu o Serviço de Cirurgia II dos HUC de Novembro de 1988 a 1995 e desde então dirige o Serviço de Cirurgia I. Em1988 foi solicitado a montar o Laboratório de Experimentação Animal dos HUC. Aí vem acolhendo múltiplos cursos e “workshops” de pré e pós-graduação, o mestrado de experimentação animal e acompanha o desenvolvimento de trabalhos de treino cirúrgico e investigação, incluindo teses de mestrado e de doutoramento. Presidiu à Sociedade Portuguesa de Microcirurgia, Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia, Groupe pour l’Avancement de la Microchirurgie ( GAM) de que foi co-fundador Participou também na criação da Associação Portuguesa de Patologia Experimental e da Sociedade de Ciência em Animais de Laboratório, a cujas Assembleias Gerais preside; é membro do Centro de Histofisiologia, Patologia Experimental e Biologia do Desenvolvimento homologado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia em 1998. É membro da Académie National de Chirurgie (Paris) ”Associé Étranger” e da Academia Nacional de Medicina.

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João Alberto Baptista Patrício is a tenured professor at the University of Coimbra Faculty of Medicine, where he has supervised courses in the field of surgical pathology. Between 1988 and 1995 he served as Chief of Surgery II at Coimbra University Hospitals, and since 1995 he has been Chief of Surgery I. In 1988 he received the commission to set up the Animal Experimentation Laboratory at Coimbra University Hospitals. From this sprung various workshops and pre- and post-graduate courses, including the master’s program in animal experimentation, as well as his role in developing surgical training and research projects, including dissertations and theses at the master’s and doctoral levels. João Patrício has also served as president of the Portuguese Microsurgery Association, the Portuguese Surgery Association, and the Groupe pour l’Avancement de la Microchirurgie (GAM), the lattermost of which he co-founded. He also took part in the setting-up of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Pathology and the Science in Laboratory Animals Society, over whose assemblies he presides, and is a member of the Centre for Histophysiology, Experimental Pathology, and Developmental Biology, approved by the Foundation for Science and Technology in 1998. João Patrício is also a member of Académie National de Chirurgie (Paris) “Associé Étranger” and the National Academy of Medicine.