History and Context

  The Postgraduate Program of the Faculty of Medicine, Area of Concentration in Pathology, began in 1978 with the Master and in 2011 with the Doctorate.

  More than one hundred masters have been trained, and the first dissertation was defended on August 21, 1980, by the pathologist Dalila Poli de Carvalho, entitled "Histopathology of Pulmonary Apudomas - Review and Critique of 90 Cases," Whose advisor was Professor Titular Domingos De Paola. The examining board was constituted by the staff members: Francisco Duarte Guimarães Neto; Kalil Madi and Paulo Roberto Gonçalves Sampaio de Lacerda.

  Several PhD theses have already been defended, the first being on December 18, 2013, by the pathologist Ana Paula Aguiar Vidal Sieiro, entitled "Immunohistochemical Analysis of Adenosine Monophosphate Kinase (AMPK) Pathway Activity in Well Differentiated Carcinomas from Thyroid Follicular Lineage: Comparative Study Between the Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Tissues," whose advisors were Mario Vaisman and Denise Pires de Carvalho. The examining board were the staff members: Bruno Moulin de Andrade; Flavia Lúcia Conceição; Carlos Alberto Basílio de Oliveira; Vera Lucia Nunes Pannain; Adriana Marques Caroli de Freitas Bottino; José Carlos Oliveira de Morais; Patricia de Fátima dos Santos Teixeira and Mario Vaisman.

  In accordance with the knowledge multidisciplinarity, the program is aimed at graduate students in different areas of health, namely: biologists, biomedical, dentists, physiotherapists, speech therapists and physicians, among other health professionals. Researchers from several areas of knowledge are part of the staff, which contributes to a growing number of enrolled students, especially in the doctorate, in order to favor the integration between experimental and clinical research. The area of concentration in pathology is the most suitable for this integration, with the main objectives being the pathogenesis, histopathological changes, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

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