António Rendas
| António Rendas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 19, 1949 (age 67) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation |
Rector of NOVA University of Lisbon Professor, Researcher and Author |
Rector of NOVA University of Lisbon
António Manuel Bensabat Rendas (born April 19, 1949, Lisbon) is a Portuguese professor of Medicine, and a researcher in the field of respiratory diseases. He is currently Rector of NOVA University of Lisbon, having been elected for the first time in 2007. He was President of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas, CRUP) between 2010 and 2014, and he is currently Academic Holder of the National Academy of Medicine of Portugal and Member of the Steering Committee of UNICA (Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe).
António Rendas, born in Lisbon, has a degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (1972) and a PhD in the field of Experimental Pathology from the Cardiothoracic Institute, University of London (1977). He was a research fellow at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between 1974 and 1976, in the Department of Experimental Pathology of the Brompton Hospital, at the Cardiothoracic Institute, University of London. Later in 1990, António Rendas was a member of the Advisory Council on Scholarships of the Education and Scholarship Services of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
In 1977-78, he was an Associate Pathology Researcher at the Department of Pathology at the Children's Hospital Medical Center at Harvard Medical School.
António Rendas managed the Portuguese Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, IHMT) of NOVA University of Lisbon between 1982 and 1986. He was also Director of NOVA Medical School (Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM) from 1996 to 2006, where he has been Professor of Pathophysiology since 1982.
Between 1992 and 1994, António Rendas was Project Coordinator responsible for introducing the method of problem-based learning in medical education in Portugal, in collaboration with the Department of Medical Education of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, with the support of Luso-American Development Foundation. Between 1995 and 1997, he also held the position of Vice President of the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology. Between 2005 and 2008, he was Coordinator of the National Council of Teaching and Medical Education of the Portuguese Order of Physicians, a position he held when he was elected Rector of NOVA University of Lisbon in 2007. In this institution, António Rendas has seen his mandate as Rector renewed in 2013 by the General Council.
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