Prof. Fátima Carneiro, MD, Ph.D.

Full Professor of Pathology (Medical Faculty of Porto), Head of Department of Anatomic Pathology (Centro Hospitalar São João) and Senior Researcher at IPATIMUP/i3S

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Fátima Carneiro, MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Pathology (Medical Faculty of Porto), Head of Department of Anatomic Pathology (Centro Hospitalar São João) and Senior Researcher at Ipatimup/i3S. She was President of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) (2011-2013) and is currently the Chair of the ESP Advisory Board. She is Coordinator of the Portuguese Network of Tumour Banks, council member of the International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA) and member of the European Academy of Cancers Sciences (EACS). She was Delegate of Portugal to the Committee for the FP7 specific programme "Cooperation" of the European Commission and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ERA-NET on Translational Cancer Research (TRANSCAN).  She is co-author of about 350 peer-reviewed publications (“h factor”: 59) and 21 book chapters, including books issued by the WHO ("Pathology & Genetics of Tumours of the Digestive Tract", 3rd Edition, 2000 & "Tumours of the Digestive System", 4th Edition, 2010), the UICC (Handbook on "Comprehensive Tumour Terminology", 2001) and the IARC (World Cancer Report 2014). She is one of the Editors of the WHO Blue Book on “Tumours of the Digestive System”, and section Editor of the Encyclopedia of Pathology. Her field of specialization is gastrointestinal pathology. Her research is directed towards the understanding of the etiopathogenesis and molecular pathology of gastric carcinoma, in the sporadic and hereditary settings, with a particular interest in Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer (HDGC).

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