Full name:
João Paulo Ferreira da Silva Oliveira.
Place and Date of birth:
Coimbra, Portugal; 7/February/1957.
Summary of the Curriculum Vitae
Dr. João Paulo Oliveira is the Head of the Division of Clinical Genetics of Hospital São
João (HSJ) and Associate Professor of Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine, University
of Porto (FMUP), Porto, Portugal. He also is the coordinator of the program on genetics
of kidney diseases of the Unit of Research and Development in Nephrology, of the
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, at the Department of Nephrology,
FMUP/HSJ.
Dr. Oliveira graduated from FMUP in 1981 and completed his post-graduate training in
Nephrology between 1985 and 1990, at HSJ. In 1990, he took a post-graduate course in
Nephrology at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, which
included full-time clinical training in peritoneal dialysis at the Department of
Nephrology, Meir Hospital, in Kfar-Saba, under the supervision of Prof. Jacques
Bernheim. Between 1995 and 2005 he served as Physician-in-Charge of the peritoneal
dialysis program of the Department of Nephrology, HSJ. In 2008 he was appointed as
Chief-Physician of the Department of Nephrology, HSJ.
Since 1999 Dr. Oliveira has served as medical director of a large outpatient dialysis
clinic of Fresenius Medical Care, in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, which he had joined
in 1985, initially as attending resident physician and later as a consultant nephrologist.
From the FMUP, Dr. Oliveira received an MSc degree on Medical Genetics in 1990 and
the PhD degree on Medicine (Genetics) in 2008. His major clinical and research
interests are the hereditary diseases of the kidney, especially Fabry disease, which was
the subject of his PhD Thesis. Dr Oliveira has actively collaborated in several
international research projects on Fabry nephropathy and has chaired the International
Study Group of Fabry Nephropathy.
Dr. Oliveira is a member of the International Society of Nephrology, of the European
Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association and of the European
Society of Human Genetics. He is currently a member of the Directive Board of the
College of Nephrology of the Portuguese Order of Physicians and is a former member
of the Scientific Council and of the Directive Board of the Portuguese Society of
Nephrology.