Manuel Eugenio Machado Macedo

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Manuel Eugénio Machado Macedo (born February 10, 1922 in Ponta Delgada ( Azores ), † May 21, 2000 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese surgeon and president of the World Medical Association .

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Manuel Eugénio Machado Macedo studied medicine in Lisbon until 1946. After passing his state examination, he began working as a doctor at the Medical University Clinic in Zurich with Löffler and then worked for further training in thoracic surgery in the United Kingdom as a fellow of the British Council and as Senior House Surgeon and Resident in the Leicester Chest Unit. From 1956 he worked as a thoracic surgeon, first as a senior physician in the department of thoracic surgery in the Lisbon City Hospital, and since 1969 as chief physician of this department. In 1979 he became professor in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the New University of Lisbon and worked from 1988 to 1992 as director of the Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at the Santa Cruz Hospital. Since 1985 he has been professor of cardiac and thoracic surgery at the Medical Faculty of the Classical University of Lisbon.

Macedo was President of the European Society of Cardiovascular Surgery from 1984 to 1986, and from 1987 to 1992 he was President of Ordern dos Medicos, the Portuguese National Medical Association. In 1990 Manuel Eugenio Machado Macedo became President of the World Medical Association for two years, and from 1992 to 1994 he was President of the Standing Committee of European Doctors of the EC.

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SURNAME Macedo, Manuel Eugenio Machado
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machado Macedo, Manuel Eugenio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese surgeon and President of the World Medical Association
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Ponta Delgada , Azores
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2000
Place of death Lisbon