National Conference of Psychiatry
XIIIth Edition, with international attendance
With the topic:
Innovation and Creativity in the XXIst Century Psychiatry
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
23 - 26 September 2020
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MARIA LUISA FIGUEIRA
Maria Luisa Figueira (born 1944) is a Portuguese psychiatrist and academic known for her research in clinical and experimental psychopathology and psychopharmacology, particularly in relation to Bipolar disorders and schizophrenia. She is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health and former Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Medicine.
She attended the University of Lisbon, receiving her medical degree in 1973. She then worked as an assistant professor in the psychology department of the university's Faculty of Medicine and took post-graduate courses in mathematics and computer science at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. It was during this time that she began her research into psychopharmacology, working in the Group for Psychopharmalogical Studies organized by Manuel Paes de Sousa at the Hospital de Santa Maria. On the strength of their research both were admitted to the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum in 1978. Figueira went on to receive her PhD in 1984 with a dissertation on experimental psychopathology of interpersonal behavior in schizophrenia.
In 2002 she was appointed Coordinator of Mental Health Services at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon and subsequently became the head of its Psychiatric Department till 2014, year of her Jubilation. She co-founded the journal Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry with the Italian psychiatrist Mario Di Fiorino and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Forum of Psychosis and Bipolarity in 2010. She was the President of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental (Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health). She has been invited to lecture in the main psychiatric meetings in Portugal and in European Congresses and published more than 200 papers in National and International Journals.
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Romanian Association
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Romanian College "Socola" Institute
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Academy of Medical Sciences
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