Fausto J Pinto

Fausto Pinto
Born	(1960-11-03)3 November 1960 Santarém, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Other names	Fausto José da Conceição Alexandre Pinto
Occupation(s)	Dean of Lisbon Medical School, University of Lisbon

Fausto J. Pinto (born 3 November 1960) is a Portuguese academic. He is Professor of Cardiology at Hospital de Santa Maria. [of the Faculty of Medicine at the [[University of Lisbon]]].

CAREER

From 2002–04, Pinto served as President and founder of the European Association of Echocardiography. From 2008–2010, he was Chairman of the ESC's Congress Program Committee, followed by President from 2014–16 and chair of the European Heart Agency from 2016–2018.

Pinto graduated from Lisbon University Medical School in 1984. He completed his Cardiology internship at Hospital de Santa Maria, and was a fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was then worked as a clinician the Echocardiography laboratory and underwent a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the same institution.

His main areas of interest research are: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging; Intracoronary Ultrasound; Echocardiography; Heart failure and Diastology and Hypertension.

His main positions are Full Professor of Medicine/ Cardiology at Lisbon University Medical School (since 2010); Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (since 2015); National Coordinator of the Medical Scools Council - CEMP (2018-2020); President of the Executive Board of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre (2019-2021); President Elect World Heart Federation (2019-2020) ; Head of the Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Santa Maria (since 2014); Head of the Heart and Vascular Department, University Hospital of Santa Maria (since 2016); President of the European Society of Cardiology (2014-2016); Past President of the European Society of Cardiology (since 2018)

He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. , and professor of Cardiology at the Hospital de Santa Maria. He is the president-elect of the World Heart Federation for the period 2019-2020 and President of the Executive Board of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre for the same period. Fausto is also director of Lisbon Cardiovascular Institute since 1999..

AWARDS AND HONOURS

He was recognized with the International Service Award 2019 during the ACC's 68th Anual Scientific Session, in New Orleans, USA, during the ACC Convocation, Inauguration and Awards Ceremony. This distinction was created by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and aims to distinguish and reward the contribution and the progress of Cardiovascular Medicine.

He was presented with Dr. Henry Fok Memorial Lecture Medal by the President of the Sino Luso International Forum and Founding Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Must Professor Manson Fok, during the "Sino Luso International Forum", in May 2019, in Macau.

In May 2019, Fausto Pinto was ordained Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina of Brazil, one of the oldest in the world.

Fausto Pinto is the mentor of CODEM-LP (Constituição da Rede de Cooperação das Escolas Médicas de Língua Portuguesa), the solemn session of the signing protocol took place at the Aula Magna, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon on 14 November 2019. The cooperation includes 13 Medical Schools from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Macau, and will strengthen the role of medical schools in Lusophony by providing them with an exchange tool that will surely contribute to closer scientific, pedagogical and cultural relations and further development of education and research in medical practice.

PUBLICATIONS

379. Rodrigues BS, Alves M, Duarte GS, Costa J, [http://faustopinto.com/ Pinto FJ], Caldeira D. The impact of influenza vaccination in patients with cardiovascular disease: an overview of systematic reviews [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 11]. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2020;S1050-1738(20)30082-7. doi:10.1016/j.tcm.2020.06.003[19][18]

378. Maria C. Azevedo Coutinho, Nuno Cortez-Dias, Guilhermina Cantinho, Susana Gonçalves, Miguel Nobre Menezes, Tatiana Guimarães, Gustavo Lima da Silva Ana Rita Francisco, João Agostinho, Laura Santos, Isabel Conceição & Fausto J. Pinto (2020) The sensitivity of DPD scintigraphy to detect transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in V30M mutation depends on the phenotypic expression of the disease, Amyloid, DOI:10.1080/13506129.2020.1744553 [20]

377. Rui Plácido, Ana G Almeida, Fausto J Pinto, Multisite embolic events secondary to pulmonary valve endocarditis, European Heart Journal -Cardiovascular Imaging, jeaa132, DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeaa132[21]

376. Rui Plácido, João Abecasis, Ana G Almeida, Fausto J Pinto, Clearly defined interventricular septum chemical shift: an extensive lipidic interposition, European Heart Journal, ehaa367, DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa367

375. Michelle Samuel, MPH PhD, Jean-Claude Tardif, MD, Paul Khairy, MD, PhD, François Roubille, MD PhD, David D Waters, MD, Jean C Grégoire, MD, Fausto J Pinto, MD PhD, Aldo P Maggioni, MD, Rafael Diaz, MD, Colin Berry, MD PhD, Wolfgang Koenig, MD, Petr Ostadal, MD PhD, Jose Lopez-Sendon, MD, Habib Gamra, MD, Ghassan S Kiwan, MD, Marie-Pierre Dubé, PhD, Mylène Provencher, PhD, Andreas Orfanos, MB BCh, Lucie Blondeau, MSc, Simon Kouz, MD, Philippe L L’Allier, MD, Reda Ibrahim, MD, Nadia Bouabdallaoui, MD, Dominic Mitchell, PhD, Marie-Claude Guertin, PhD, Jacques Lelorier, MD PhD, Cost-Effectiveness of Low-Dose Colchicine after Myocardial Infarction in the Colchicine Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial (COLCOT), European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, qcaa045, DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaa045

374. Cammann VL, Szawan KA, Stähli BE, Kato K, Budnik M, Wischnewsky M, Dreiding S, Levinson RA, Di Vece D, Gili S, Citro R, Bossone E, Neuhaus M, Franke J, Meder B, Jaguszewski M, Noutsias M, Knorr M, Heiner S, D'Ascenzo F, Dichtl W, Burgdorf C, Kherad B, Tschöpe C, Sarcon A, Shinbane J, Rajan L, Michels G, Pfister R, Cuneo A, Jacobshagen C, Karakas M, Koenig W, Pott A, Meyer P, Roffi M, Banning A, Wolfrum M, Cuculi F, Kobza R, Fischer TA, Vasankari T, Airaksinen KEJ, Napp LC, Dworakowski R, MacCarthy P, Kaiser C, Osswald S, Galiuto L, Chan C, Bridgman P, Beug D, Delmas C, Lairez O, Gilyarova E, Shilova A, Gilyarov M, El-Battrawy I, Akin I, Poledniková K, Toušek P, Winchester DE, Galuszka J, Ukena C, Poglajen G, Carrilho-Ferreira P, Hauck C, Paolini C, Bilato C, Kobayashi Y, Shoji T, Ishibashi I, Takahara M, Himi T, Din J, Al-Shammari A, Prasad A, Rihal CS, Liu K, Schulze PC, Bianco M, Jörg L, Rickli H, Pestana G, Nguyen TH, Böhm M, Maier LS, Pinto FJ, Widimský P, Felix SB, Braun-Dullaeus RC, Rottbauer W, Hasenfuß G, Pieske BM, Schunkert H, Borggrefe M, Thiele H, Bauersachs J, Katus HA, Horowitz JD, Di Mario C, Münzel T, Crea F, Bax JJ, Lüscher TF, Ruschitzka F, Ghadri JR, Opolski G, Templin C Age-Related Variations in Takotsubo Syndrome, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 75, Issue 16, 28 April 2020, Pages 1869-1877. DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.02.057

373. Plácido R, Sousa I, Antunes D, Guimarães T, Pinto FJ. More than a rare cause of pulmonary hypertension in the elderly. Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2020, Pages 175-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.repc.2019.06.007

372. Thienemann F, Pinto F, Grobbee DE, Boehm M, Bazargani N, Ge J, Sliwa K. World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries. Global Heart. 2020; 15(1): 31. DOI: 10.5334/gh.778

371. Antunes MM, Duarte GS, Brito D, Borges M, Costa J, Ferreira JJ, Pinto FJ, Caldeira D. Pneumococcal vaccination in adults at very-high risk or established cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis, European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, qcaa030, DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaa030

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WEBINARS

Webinar on COVID 19 from the Indo European Course on Revascularization (IECR)

14 December 2019 - O que mudou em 2019 na Abordagem da Insuficiência Cardíaca? Parte 1