Revisitar o Passado e valorizar o Legado do Professor Universitário e Médico Falcão de Freitas

Abstract

António Alberto Falcão de Freitas (1933-2004), MD, PhD, was born in Oliveira de Azeméis, district of Aveiro. He was Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Physician and Researcher. He graduated in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, in 1958, and received his doctorate in 1968. The Colonial War took him to Luanda, between 1969 and 1971, where he developed medical education, associated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Luanda. In Portugal, he was a prestigious Professor at the FMUP, chair of the 6th year Clinical Practice chair, between 1980 and 2002, and an excellent cardiologist and internist at the Hospital de São João, having been Service Director, between 1974 and 2002. During his career, he founded the Portuguese Association of Paramyloidosis (1979), was a member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (1991-2003) and president of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (1989-1991). Professor Falcão de Freitas was an example of high professionalism and dedication to medicine. He will remain alive in the memory of those who were deprived of him. His death was a great loss for the medical and academic community.