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Ivor Cummins

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. He has since spent 30 years in corporate technical leadership positions. His career specialty has been leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity.
Since 2012 Ivor has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease. A particular focus has been on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. He shares his research insights at public speaking engagements around the world, revealing the key nutritional and lifestyle interventions which will deliver excellent health and personal productivity. He has recently presented at the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) and also at the Irish National Institute of Preventative Cardiology (NIPC) annual conferences.
Ivor’s 2018 book “Eat Rich, Live Long” (co-authored with preventative medicine expert Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP), details the conclusions of their shared research.

Patrick Fagan

I am a behavioural scientist with over a decade's experience applying psychology to influencing behaviour in the real world. I am a part-time and guest lecturer at three London universities, and have published peer-reviewed papers on topics ranging from Facebook psychology to facial expressions. My book on the psychology of effective marketing comms, Hooked, is published with Pearson.
I contribute to mainstream media publications such as the BBC, The Evening Standard, and The Spectator - both for commentary and full articles - and am a frequent public speaker at events such as Talks at Google and Nudgestock. I have consulted and run research and experiments for brands, blue chip and otherwise, across the gamut of industries for over ten years; my work has featured in the global press. I have also worked as a behavioural scientist on political campiagns, from local to presidential, in Europe, Africa and North America.
My previous roles have included Lead Psychologist at Cambridge Analytica.

Reiner Fuellmich

Dr Reiner Fuellmich was born and raised in Bremen. He attended school in Bremen and Farmington Hills, Michigan. He studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and in Los Angeles.
He worked, among other things, as a research assistant at the law faculty of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there. Before founding the law firm Dr. Fuellmich in 1993, he worked in corporate banking at Deutsche Bank in Germany and Japan.
Dr Fuellmich has published various articles and books in the fields of banking law, medical law and private international law and has already taught as a professor and lecturer at universities in Germany and Estonia.

Roger Hodkinson

Dr Hodkinson is a medical specialist in pathology, a graduate of Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. During his long career he has had a number of leadership roles in Canadian medicine both provincially and nationally, including being a university teacher, chairman of the Royal College pathology examination committee, and laboratory accreditation inspector. He was previously the President of the Alberta Society of Laboratory Physicians, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta, and CEO of community based medical laboratories in Canada, Michigan and California with a full menu of testing for infectious disease and virology.
He is currently the Chairman of an American biotechnology company active in DNA sequencing.
But he is most proud of his role for many years in public health advocacy as Honorary Chairman of ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, which is the leading non-profit organization in Canada tackling the predatory marketing strategies of Big Tobacco, and for which he was made Citizen of the Year in Edmonton, Alberta. He also wishes to note that for a number of years he was the President of the Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of Edmonton, which is the oldest Churchill society in the world and the only one endorsed by Churchill himself.

Peter McCullough

Dr. McCullough is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical lipidology. He cares for advanced patients with common medical problems including heart and kidney disease, lipid disorders, and diabetes. He has become an expert on COVID-19 illnesses and welcomes recovered patients into his practice.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, Dr. McCullough completed his medical degree as an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, cardiology fellowship including service as Chief Fellow at William Beaumont Hospital, and master’s degree in public health at the University of Michigan.

Norman Fenton

Professor of Risk Information Management, Queen Mary London University. Director of Agena Ltd
A mathematician by training whose current research focuses on critical decision-making and, in particular, on quantifying risk and uncertainty.
Provides research, education and consulting on probability and statistics and is a regular expert witness on statistics of forensic evidence.
Research analyses and predicts the probabilities of unknown events using causal, probabilistic models (Bayesian networks).

Jennifer Hibberd

Dr. Jennifer Hibberd is a specialty dental surgeon, academic educator, lecturer, public speaker, scientific editor and clinician.She has been in private practice for many years which has blessed her with the gift of giving specialty services to the children of our communities. Dr. Hibberd has actively engaged in community initiatives, advancing the profile of children’s critical needs and services. She has dedicated her career to the advancement of health for children. Over the years she has founded charities and served as a director on charity boards. She has been actively involved in fundraising for patient-centred care throughout her career.
She believes ‘charity starts on your own doorstep. (...) There are people in our own communities that need help, especially the children’. Throughout these past two years, Dr Hibberd has researched and contributed extensively to the science of COVID-19. She has highlighted the work of experts across the globe and co-authored several scientific studies & papers with doctors and scientists around the world. Dr. Hibberd co-founded Canadian Covid Care Alliance and more recently, co-founded the World Council for Heath. She serves as a leadership consultant and promoter of health in several organizations. She stands for health and humanity and believes our children are our future. She is quoted as saying, ‘The care and example we give children today will serve humanity tomorrow and into the future’.

Gonzalo Aranda-Abreu

Professor Dr. Gonzalo Emiliano Aranda Abreu (Centro de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico) was born in 1968 in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico.
He received his BSc (Experimental Biology) degree from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico, in 1992; MSc (Molecular Biology and Genetics) degree from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, IPN, Mexico, in 1996; and PhD (Neurobiology) degree from Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 2001.

He has more than 20 years of experience in Alzheimer’s disease research. He has written articles on tau mRNA transport in the neuronal axon and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as book chapters where the main theme is brain rehabilitation. He is the president and member of the Southeastern Mexican Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, USA. He is involved in the training of doctoral students. He teaches molecular and cellular neurobiology, and bioinformatics to PhD degree students.

Paul Frijters

Paul Frijters completed his Masters in Econometrics at the University of Groningen, including a seven-month stay in Durban, South Africa before completing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam into wellbeing in Russia during the transition.
He is currently a Professor in Wellbeing Economics at the LSE, teaching the Masters Course in Wellbeing and Public Policy. Professor Frijters specializes in applied micro-econometrics, including labor, happiness, and health economics, though he has also worked on pure theoretical topics in macro and micro fields.
Paul currently advises the UK government and others on how to implement wellbeing policies at the national and regional level.

Cristoph Plothe

BSC. (OST), HONS, MRO
Christof Plothe completed two years of pre-clinical training at the medical faculty in Mainz/Germany and then studied Osteopathy at the University of Wales in Kent/England. As a self-employed Osteopath he worked for many years in Ireland, the USA and Spain.
He is the author and co-author of several books, author of studies, articles, national and international congresses and a regular online speaker. His major medical topics have been featured on television, radio and in films.

He is a steering commitee member of Worldcouncilforhealth, a global coalition of health-oriented organisations and civil society groups to inform about health and human rights. He has tried to integrate naturopathy, environmental medicine, holistic dentistry and conventional medicine through books and lectures.

David Bell

PUBLIC HEALTH PhD
David is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and expertise in internal medicine, infectious disease modelling and epidemiology. Previously, he was Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in the US, Head of the Malaria and Acute Fever Diseases Programme at FIND in Geneva and coordinating the malaria diagnostics strategy with the World Health Organization.

David maintains that accurate data and balanced evidence is available to the public and other decision makers in order to make decisions that are in everyone's best interest.

Alexandra Henrion Caude

Alexandra Caude is a geneticist, Director of Research at the French national Institute of Health (Inserm). she completed her post-doctorate at Harvard Medical School, was tenured in 1998, and worked at Necker Hospital-Imagine Institute. For over 20 years, her research has focuesd on how environmental cues are translated into genetic information, specifically in rare genetic diseases that affect children.
Her most important results concern the response of genes to nutrients, long-term memory formation, lung repair in children, the identification of a few disease-causing genes, and a genetic mechanism of energetic communication. In 2017, her questions about the urge to developing simple and low-cost health solutions led her to Africa in Mauritius, where she founded anew research institute, SimplissimA.

Geert Vanden Bossche

Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development.

Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager. At GAVI he tracked efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine. He also represented GAVI in fora with other partners, including WHO, to review progress on the fight against Ebola and to build plans for global pandemic preparedness.

Teresa Mota

Teresa Gomes Mota was born in 1959, in Lisbon. She has a degree in Medicine and a specialty in Cardiology. Hospital Consultant in Cardiology at Pulido Valente Hospital until 2004 and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Lisbon until 2007. She is on the Board of the Portuguese Cardiology Foundation. She is the author of dozens of publications and scientific presentations in national and foreign conferences.
She has developed and coordinated various cardiovascular prevention and health promotion campaigns, such as the Garra, Educa, Passaporte Para a Vida, Campanha Educacional Para a Redução da Tensão Arterial, Consigo no Coração and Ganhar Saúde, with the inclusion of thousands of people. As well as many texts of an educational nature aimed at the population, she has published: "Do outro lado da bata" - Climepsi 2004; "Emagrecer. I can do it!" - Edições Asa II 2006 (awarded with the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2006 in the category Best Nutrition and Health Book of the Gourmand Portugal Awards). He is a member of several scientific and philosophical societies.

Christian Perrone

Christian Perronne specialises in tropical pathologies and emerging infectious diseases in France. He is known to be a top French vaccine expert and has been for fifteen years one of the main advisors in the field of public health (and infectious diseases) to several governments.
He has been chairman of several medical and scientific bodies, including head of the Medical Department at Raymond Poincaré Hospital in Garches, near Paris. He was the Head of Department for Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the hospital university’s from 1994 onwards.
He was also the Vice-President of the European Advisory Group of Experts in Immunization to the World Health Organisation. He was Chairman of the Specialized Committee on Communicable Diseases of the High Council of Public Health. He has become a formidable whistleblower and is much appreciated for his criticism of health policy in the fight against COVID-19. He is now one of the most prominent experts in COVID-19, both from a therapeutic and a policy perspective.

Piers Robinson

Dr Piers Robinson is a political scientist and currently a co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, editor of Propaganda in Focus, member of PANDA, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, an associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’. He has served on the boards of several academic journals.
Professor/Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism, University of Sheffield, 2016-2019. Visiting Professor, University of Chester, 2013-2016. Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Manchester, 2005-2015. Lecturer in Political Communication, University of Liverpool, 1999-2005. He researches communication, media and world politics, focusing on conflict and war and especially the role of propaganda. His work has been cited in publications such as ‘The Responsibility to Protect’, published by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), and he has received many invitations to lecture and advise on these topics. He has lectured at the NATO Defense College in Rome and given presentations/briefings at the University of Oxford to UK senior military commanders and diplomats and also lectured at the St Cyer military academy in France.

Joana Amaral Dias

Joana Amaral Dias is renowned in the field of Communication, with more than 15 years of experience in television commentary and analysis, as well as in the press, having collaborated with TSF, SIC, SIC Notícias, Diário de Notícias, among others and, more recently, with RTP and CMTV.
With solid credits as a columnist and opinion maker, she successfully covers very diverse areas, from politics and psychology to cinema and football.
She was an association leader, deputy at the Assembly of the Republic and party leader. Clinical Psychologist, Master in Clinical Psychology by the Universidade de Coimbra, with a PhD by the Chicago Center for Family Health/ University of Chicago, she has been teaching for 20 years in Higher Education in several institutions, from the Universidade Luterana do Brasil to the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada. Holder of several postgraduate degrees, she has a private practice in Lisbon and is the author of four bestsellers in her fields: Maníacos de Qualidade (2010), Portugal a Arder (2011), O Cérebro da Política (2014), Sonhos Públicos (2018). Joana Amaral Dias is also a consultant in Human Resources Management and Communication - Organisational Image.

Paul Elias Alexander

Dr. Paul Alexander is an epidemiologist focusing on clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology. He has a master's in epidemiology from University of Toronto, and a master's degree from Oxford University.
He earned his PhD from McMaster's Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. He has some background training in Bioterrorism/Biowarfare from John's Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland.
Paul is a former WHO Consultant and Senior Advisor to US Department of HHS in 2020 for the COVID-19 response.

Michael Levitt

I am one of the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry 2013. I pioneered of computational biology setting up the conceptual and theoretical framework for a field that I am still actively involved in at all levels. I write and maintain computer programs of all types including large simulation packages and molecular graphics interfaces. First, we are interested in predicting the folding of a polypeptide chain into a protein with a unique native-structure with particular emphasis on how the hydrophobic forces affect the pathway, and predicting protein structure from sequence without regard for the process of folding.
Such prediction relies on the well-established paradigms that similar protein sequences imply similar three-dimensional structures.
Also, we are focusing on mesoscale modeling of large macromolecular complexes such as RNA polymerase and the mammalian chaperonin.
Publications in the last 2 years:
- Virus spread on a scale-free network reproduces the Gompertz growth observed in isolated COVID-19 outbreaks.
- Comparison of pandemic excess mortality in 2020-2021 across different empirical calculations.
- SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: viral spread dynamics, disease burden, and vaccine effectiveness.
- Insights on cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from structural modeling.
- Interfacea: Open-Source Library for Protein Interface Analysis.

Albert Cortés Borra

I am currently a nurse at the CAP Vila de Gràcia - Cibeles, at the SAP Dreta de Atención Primaria de Barcelona Ciudad of the Institut Català de la Salut. I have worked as a nursing manager at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, having been Nursing Supervisor of the Information Systems Area of the Nursing Management, Nursing Assistant of the Human Resources Management and Nursing Supervisor of the Maternal and Child Area, in the night shift.
I am a collaborating lecturer at the Escuela Superior de Enfermería del Mar teaching the subject of Leadership and Nursing Empowerment, collaborating lecturer at the Escuela de Enfermería Gimbernat tutoring final degree projects and lecturer on the Master's Degree in Nursing Care Management and Leadership at SalusPlay UEMC. Member of ANDE - Asociación Nacional de Directivos de Enfermería, SEDISA - Sociedad Española de Directivos de la Salud, SGGS - Societat Catalana de Gestió Sanitària and Societat Catalanobalear d'Infermeria - Asociación de Enfermería Comunitaria.

Peter Borger

Pieter, nickname Peter, is a molecular biologist and critic of the naturalistic theory of evolution. In 2003 he became a Christian.
He studied biology in Groningen. In 1993 he graduated in molecular genetics and biochemistry. In 1998, he obtained his PhD with a study of how genes are switched on and off in immune cells, particularly gene regulation in T cells of the immune system. He is an expert on the subject of PCR testing.
As a researcher, he worked for 10 years at the University of Basel (Switzerland), 2.5 years at the University of Sydney (Australia, 2001-2003) and 4 years at Zurich (Germany). He has been editor of two scientific journals.
He is currently (2021) a researcher at the German Christian Association Wort und Wissen in the field of genetics.

Diogo Cabrita

Academic Qualifications: Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University in Coimbra between 1981 1987, obtaining the degree of assistant in general surgery in 1998.
Professional Experience: Founded in 1988 with Álvaro Beleza and some other colleagues the National Association of Young Physicians of which he would be President between 1991 and 1993. In 1995 Worked in Paris (thoracic surgery) and 1996 in Mulleim an der Ruhr. Returns to Germany in 2000 (vascular surgery).

In 2000 he moves to Águeda Hospital by public tender. He leaves Águeda by public tender for Covões Hospital (CHC) in October 2003. Here he remains in the Civil Service since then. In 2005 he founded the publishing house ARTEZ Medicina e Arte, which produced records, books, national and international exhibitions on science and culture. He remains as director of the company. He was director of the Emergency Room of Aveiro Hospital in 2003. Between 2001 and 2006 he was a guest professor of Anatomy at the Superior School of Health Technology of Coimbra (ESTSC) in the Radiology course.

José Manuel Silva

Physician, former President of the Portuguese Bar Association and politician. In the Municipal Elections of 2021, he was elected Mayor of Coimbra, for the coalition "Juntos Somos Coimbra". He took office on October 18th, 2021.
He gained his doctorate in 1998 with Unanimity, Distinction and Honours in public examinations at the University of Coimbra with a thesis in internal medicine. Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Chair of General and Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra. Pro-Rector of the University of Coimbra in 2003-2004. President of the Portuguese Society of Atherosclerosis from 2009 to 2011.
Author or co-author of about 600 scientific papers presented or published in national and international congresses or journals; 11 awarded communications and posters. He has moderated 60 round tables and debates. He has published a book on "Cholesterol, Lipids and Vascular Disease".
He is a member of the National Executive Council of the Portuguese Medical Association, representative of the Medical Association at the World Medical Association and President of the Portuguese Atherosclerosis Society. In 2011, he was elected President of the Portuguese Medical Association. He finished his second mandate in 2017.

Cândido Ferreira

Nephrologist doctor in practice in the city of Leiria. In 1976 he directed the Hospital de Pombal where he left a renowned work. Between 1978 and 1982 he was Assistant in Nephrology at the Faculty of Medicine having also done an internship in Lyon in the area of renal transplantation. He was part of the team of Prof. Linhares Furtado and organized the first transplant consultation in Portugal and the first organ harvest and collaborated in the first kidney transplantation using cadaver kidneys.
He built companies and clinics that are today recognised as models by technicians from all over the world, having been responsible for more than a million haemodialysis treatments. He was responsible for hundreds of opinion articles and public speeches, including on TV. He is the author of the novels "O Senhor Comendador", "A Paixão do Padre Hilário" and "Setembro Red September".
Closely connected to the defence of heritage, he has encouraged the creation of a "Museum of Art and Collecting" in partnership with Cantanhede Town Council, based on the donation of seven hundred thousand pieces that he has collected, studied and catalogued, which are spread over a hundred themes, from Bibliography to Money, Postal History and Archaeology.

Humberto Rocha

He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1986. In 1993 he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen - Scotland, U.K. with the thesis "Regulation of Muscle Protein Metabolism in Ruminants". In 1994, he obtained the equivalent to the degree of Doctor in Veterinary Sciences, Specialty of Nutrition, by the Technical University of Lisbon. In 2005: becomes Site Director of Tonova between 01/02/2005 and 29/07/2005. In 2007 he starts consulting services to Breeders and Pakers of Uruguay, and in 2010 he becomes Plant Manager of the Frigorific Unit of the same company, until March 2011. In 2013, he started to develop his professional activity in the Food Industry as consultant and in 2018 he founded the Company Humberto Rocha & Consultores Associados Lda, assuming the functions of Manager.
In 1996, he conceptualized and implemented the first course of Veterinary Medicine to be taught in a private educational institution the Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama in Coimbra. He is the author of several scientific and technical papers and opinion articles published in specialty magazines. He is Professor at the Egas Moniz University in the Integrated Master's Study Cycle in Veterinary Medicine.

Clare Craig

Highly experienced in her field, Dr. Clare Craig is a diagnostic pathologist. She specialized in cancer diagnostics including diagnostic testing for cancer within mass screening programs.
Clare was the day-to-day pathology lead for the cancer arm of the 100,000 Genomes Project, clinical lead for the data team led the research and development projects at Genomics England, wrote national guidance, and helped build bespoke software, working closely with NHSE.
Subsequently, she has worked on artificial intelligence for cancer diagnostics.

José Roquette

He graduated in economics from the Faculty of Economics of Universidade do Porto. In 1959 he began his professional life at Banco Espírito Santo. In 1973 he took part in the incorporation of Finagra. At the end of the 1980s he left that institution to take over the presidency of the company Valores Ibéricos, through which he ensured control of Banco Totta e Açores, in coalition with the Spanish Grupo Banesto.
On 11 April 1996, his connection with football led him to become chairman of the board of Sporting Clube de Portugal, the club founded by his paternal grandfather and namesake, José Alfredo Holtreman Roquette, known as José Alvalade, and by his great-great-grandfather. At Sporting, he also began to implement a business logic, having been responsible for the creation of the Sociedade Anónima Desportiva (SAD), a pioneering move in Portuguese football and with which the club became champions again after 18 years.
Currently, in addition to the wine and olive oil businesses at Herdade do Esporão, he leads investment in the Alqueva Park, with the Roncão d'El Rei tourist project, a former hunting ground of King D. Carlos I of Portugal. He is also a recognised supporter of the Better Alentejo citizenship movement. On 17 January 2006 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.

Helder Cortes

Veterinary Doctor, PhD in Veterinary Sciences, is a lecturer and researcher at the Laboratory of Parasitology Victor Caeiro (MED), Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Évora and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
With research in the development of diagnostic methods, isolation and culture of parasites in vitro, he has developed work on the testing of drugs on parasites and the study of efficacy and resistance of parasites to antiparasitic agents.
For over 30 years, ivermectin has been one of the antiparasitic agents with wide use in production animals and pets and has been the focus of his attention.

Pedro Ladeira

He is Training Manager, worked for more than 25 years in multinational pharmaceutical companies in Japan, Germany, Denmark, USA, UK and Switzerland. He did an MMC- Medical Microbiology Course in England at Beecham Research Laboratories. He was Manager and Coordinator of dozens of phase II, III and IV Clinical Trials on bacterial resistance and antibiotic therapy, retroviral, hospital asepsis and respiratory protection. He has experience in monitoring and training medical teams in Clinical Trials and Scientific Work with patients on anti-infective therapy in outpatient and hospital settings, and scientific work for International Congresses.
As a team they won the Prix Galien (Nobel Prize for Medicine) with the launch of the 1st biotechnology (aTNF) monoclonal antibody drug Infliximab (immunosuppressive TNF-ALFA inhibitor for the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crohn's Disease, Bechterew Disease, etc.
Responsible for new therapeutic concepts in the area of bacterial resistance such as the inhibitor of the action of B-Lactamases (clavulanic acid) in association with Amoxicillin and B-Lactam molecular protection, and responsible for launching the most complete proton pump inhibitor (pantoprazole), coordinating studies on triple therapy in the eradication of the Helicobacter Pylori bacterium.

Pedro Girão

Degree in Medicine (FMUP), specialist in Anaesthesiology, was a hospital assistant at Hospital Geral de Santo António (Porto) and senior assistant with duties as Service Director at Hospital Militar D. Pedro V (Porto), leaving the Civil Service at his own request in 2014. Responsible for the anaesthesia services provided at the Hospital Psiquiátrico de Magalhães Lemos (Porto), he practices in several other places, namely Hospital da Luz Arrábida and Hospital da Misericórdia de Riba d'Ave.

Manuel Pinto Coelho

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
Doctorate in Education Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
Post graduate in Anti-Aging Medicine by the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.
Member "Great Distinction" of WOSAAM - World Society of Anti-Aging Medicine.
Member of A4M - American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
In 2015 he founded the Clínica Doutor Pinto Coelho, recently awarded the "International Award in Excellence and Quality (IAEQ) 2018″.

Joaquim Couto

Currently a business consultant, he has exercised public functions in the most diverse organs, as Mayor of Santo Tirso, deputy at the Assembly of the Republic and Assembly of the Republic and Civil Governor of Porto. He was a family doctor in the National Health Service, and in 2004 decided to take a Master's degree in Natural Medicine, which allowed him to have an integrated vision of health. While holding executive positions, he helped create several social, business and cultural institutions, among them the Cooperative of Support for the Integration of the Disabled, the Norte Vida - Association for the Promotion of Norte Vida - Association for the Promotion of Health, the Santo Tirso International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture Sculpture Museum of Santo Tirso and the Association of European Textile Collectivities.
Experience in General Medicine, Natural Medicine, Local Authorities, Public Administration, Management of Organisations, Strategy, Business Consultancy, and Economic Diplomacy.

Decorations and Awards:
City Hall of Rio de Janeiro - Pedro Ernesto Medal of Merit
Portuguese Red Cross - Medal of Merit

Gabriel Branco

Born on 6th January 1961, he attended the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Lisbon and finished his medical course in 1986 with a grade of Very Good (18/20). He did his compulsory military service as a cadet in the summer of 1988 in Tavira. He finished his speciality in Neuroradiology in 1993 (19.5/20). During the initial phase of his career he published several papers in international journals of the specialty, as first author.
He is a founding member and Chairman of the General Assembly of a scientific society dedicated to neurovascular intervention.
He was directly involved in the creation of the Urgência Metropolitana de Lisboa - Linha Verde do AVC, in December 2015. He held a service direction position for 6 years (2016-21). He has close to 30 years of experience in the treatment of neurovascular disease, namely in the context of emergency.

Tess Lawrie

Tess is the Director of E-BMC Ltd, and EbMCsquared, a community interest research company. Tess is committed to improving the quality of healthcare through rigorous research.
Her range of research expertise, based on research experience in both developing and developed countries, uniquely positions her to evaluate and design research for a variety of healthcare settings.

Tess is a frequent member of technical teams responsible for developing international guidelines.
Her peer-reviewed publications have received in excess of 3000 citations and her ResearchGate score is among the top 5% of ResearchGate members.

Henrique Carreira

In 1982 he collaborated and presented a research work on arterial hypertension, integrated in a pilot project, with the collaboration of the Portuguese Cardiology Association, with Dr. Pereira Miguel and Prof. Fernando Pádua as responsible. In 1987 he carried out and presented the research work "Medical Treatment of Tuberculosis". His pedagogic activity was to be a teacher in the disciplines of First Aid and Basic Notions of Health, between '82 and '84. Participated in lectures such as "Accidents and First Aid", "Cancer and its relation with tobacco and alcohol", "The handicapped and their Social Integration"; in the Colloquium "Vaccination and Accident Prevention", and in the radio programs "A Sida" in Rádio Liz, and "Sida e as suas consequências sociais" in Rádio D. Fuas. She participated in the meeting about "Basic Notions of First Aid" at the Porto de Mós Town Hall, and in the round table discussion "Health in the Municipality of Porto de Mós".
He has a degree in Medicine completed in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, did his internship in the Civil Hospitals of Lisbon, has a specialty in General Practice and was later assistant in General Practice, generalist in the Medical Career of General Practice in the Directorate General of Health, and consultant in the Medical Career of General Practice in the same institution.

José Arez Cruz

Currently completing a degree in Health Unit Administration at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. President of ADDIS - Association for the Right to Informed Decision in Health: an association concerned with health users and the defence of free and informed decision making. Researcher in the health area since 2008. He has sought to find solutions for health from the perspective of effective cure and not only the alleviation and treatment of symptoms with maintenance of the chronicity of the disease, as well as for the unconditional defence of freedom of choice.
He has participated in two television debates Pros and Cons, from RTP1: one on "The Vaccine of discord" in 2017 (regarding measles) and another with the theme "Should Vaccines be compulsory or not?" already in the year 2018.
For about 20 years, he worked in the financial management of companies such as McDonald's (when it opened in Portugal in 1991) and AutoEuropa. He also worked in the financial, human resources and commercial areas, at Banco Comercial Português and Deutsche Bank.

Ana Moreira

Dr. Ana Moreira is a medical doctor with a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Master in Biological Medicine and Anti-Aging from the University of Alcalá, Madrid, postgraduate in Dermatology and Cosmetics, postgraduate in Medicine of Aging, postgraduate in Climatology and Hydrology, postgraduate in Occupational Medicine and doctoral student in Quantum Health at the University of Jaipur, India.

She is a member of the Portuguese Medical Association and clinical director of the Centre for Integrative Medicine, Dra. Ana Moreira, in Porto. She is a health trainer and participates regularly in seminars and lectures, nationally and internationally, as a speaker. Conducts medical retreats in international hotel chains.

Tiago Marques

Graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon on 15 October 2004 with a final grade of 17.7. He did his internship in Infectious Diseases at Santa Maria Hospital, having finished in 2011. In the same year he started working as a Hospital Assistant of Infectious Diseases in the Infectious Diseases Service of Santa Maria Hospital. He held functions in the Respiratory Isolation Unit / Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit between November 2014 and December 2016.
Since January 2017 he has been responsible for a section in the Inpatient Unit of the Infectious Diseases Service. He has been a 40% guest assistant at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon since 2012. Since joining the hospital he has been supporting the Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Service. He also provides support as a consultant to the Rheumatology Service / Vasculitis consultation.
He has several presentations and publications in the area of infectious complications of haematological pathology and immunodepression. His areas of interest include infectious pathology of the transplant patient, febrile neutropenia, and the study of indeterminate febrile syndrome and ocular inflammation.

Jorge Espírito Santo

Graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Lisbon in 1977. He is a specialist and consultant in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. He was Director of the Oncology Service and Coordinator of the Oncological Disease Management Unit at the Barreiro / Montijo Hospital Centre. He was President of the Medical Oncology Specialty College. He did a Post-Graduation in Health Unit Management and Palliative Care at the Catholic University of Lisbon, and has a competence in Health Service Management from the Order of Physicians. He was Coordinator of the Oncological Register of the Hospital do Barreiro, and a member of its Oncological Coordination Commission. He was a member of the National Oncology Council and was part of the working group that concluded the revision of the Medical Oncology Referral Network in 2015.
He was part of more than 30 juries of competitions for the Hospital Medical Career in the Specialties of Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology, and was principal investigator in at least 20 phase II and III clinical trials. phase II and III clinical trials. Since August 2020 he has been clinical director of the Provedro Julio Julio integrated Julio Freire, of Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Barreiro. He is a member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), of the Portuguese Society of Oncology, Senology, Internal Medicine, the Portuguese Digestive Cancer Group, the Head and Neck Cancer Study Group and the Portuguese Hemato-Oncological Group.

José Luís Pio Abreu

Psychiatrist at the HUC and associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine.
Over the 30 years of his professional activity, he has developed and orientated research linked to various themes within the scope of Psychiatry, with several dozen articles published in scientific journals. He did his PhD in 1984 with a thesis linked to biological psychiatry and his Aggregation in 1996 with a lesson on anxiety disorders.
He has reflected critically on his clinical activity and published several books. He has also been involved in psychotherapies, having been President of the Portuguese Psychodrama Society (SPP).
As a citizen, he has always had a political, social and cultural activity, with various interventions, opinion articles and columns in national newspapers. Parts of this path are described in Teresa Carreiro's books.

Rui Fonseca e Castro

Rui Pedro Fonseca Nogueira da Fonseca e Castro is a lawyer, registered in the Portuguese and Brazilian Bar Associations, having also been a Law Judge between 2005 and 2011 and from March 2021, being dismissed in 2022, as a punishment for his positions regarding the "false pandemic" and for having made available to the population a set of documentary models, called "Caderno de Minutas", which enabled people to exercise their rights, constitutionally consecrated, before the advance of eugenic tyranny. In this context, he was one of the founders, in 2020, of the "Jurists for Truth" movement, and in 2021 he founded the "Habeas Corpus" movement, which has since been transformed into "Habeas Corpus - Association for the Defence of Human Rights", which currently has around a thousand members.
He is also the author of legal books in the field of Criminal Procedure Law.

Miguel Oliveira da Silva

Full Professor of Medical Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and Obstetrician-Gynecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected President of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences and elected Vice-President of the Bioethics Department of the Council of Europe.

He has coordinated three successive research projects on Sexual and Reproductive Health in the European Union. He is the author of several books on current issues in Bioethics.

Orsolya Györffy

Orsolya Györffy CHD Europe Board Member, acting Executive Director. After a brief stay at Camphill, Orsolya studied economics in England. She worked as an organizational development consultant first in many multinational companies, and ultimately as information technology leader for the EMEA regions on the board of an American multinational. She supported and moderated several arts and social science initiatives and events.
Her life took a different turn after an eye-opener in 2007 run up to the crisis realising the degree of corruption, and with the translation work of the biography of D.N. Dunlop. Since 2010 she has been working as CEO to Perseus Publishing Company. The company among anthroposophical books publishes works of Prof. Anthony C. Sutton, Carroll Quigley and writings on 9.11 by T.H.Meyer and others. She co-edits and contributes to a monthly international magazine, called The Present Age, for the advancement of Spiritual Science with Symptomatic Essentials in politics, culture and economy.

Rajah Vijay Kumar

Dr. Rajah Vijay Kumar Global Chairman, Organisation De Scalene. A scientist and a prolific inventor, Shycocan is the brainchild of Dr. Rajah Vijay Kumar. He is a pioneering researcher and an opinion leader in the field of Biophysics, Radiobiology, Nanotechnology, Sustainable Energy, Modern Telecommunications and Water Resources Management and Recovery. With more than 32 inventions and patents to his credit, he is the inventor of Cytotron, a 'Breakthrough Technology' in cancer treatment as designated by US FDA. He is a member of the United Inventors Association (UIAUS),the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and its Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the Fellow of United Writer's Association (UWA),the Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Genetic Society of America (GSA) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
Dr. Kumar is a humanitarian first, who champions innovation in science for making our world safer, and our lives exponentially better.

Lucy Kerr

Graduate in MEDICINE by the University of São Paulo (1973), with specialization in General Basis of Experimental Surgery, Genetics and Cellular Biology by the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1975). Specialization in Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound at Thomas Jefferson University (1977), Specialization in Ultrasonography from The American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (1994), specialization in First Trimester Ultrasound Scannig by The Fetal Medicine Foundation (1996), specialization in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (1970) Training in General Surgery and Peripheral Vascular Surgery by the Hospital Imaculada Conceição of the Portuguese Charity Society (1973) and training in Determination of Gestational Age, Diagnosis of Gestational Age by The Fetal Medicine Foundation (1996). She is currently a majority partner and Director of Sonimage - Medical Ultrasound Diagnosis, of the Ultrasonography Clinic Dr. Lucy Kerr, and of the Kerr Institute for Teaching and Research. She has experience in Medical Radiology, working mainly on the following topics: CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, ULTRASONOGRAPHY.

Fernando Nobre

Degree in Medicine, Specialist in General Surgery and Urology - done in Belgium. Resident Assistant in General Surgery and Urology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Free University of Brussels. Member of the WHO expert group in Geneva on Onchocerciasis (river blindness) disease in the world and its treatment (Ivermectin). Organiser of the World Health Day in Portugal. Gave a lecture to students of the Faculty of Medicine of Porto on "The WHO and Non-Governmental Organisations Functions". Multiple lectures in foreign Universities and Forums. Clinical Director of the Algarve Private Hospital between 1995 and 1998. He started his humanitarian activity with Médecins Sans Frontières France, and is founder and President of AMI - International Medical Assistance Foundation. He participated as a doctor-surgeon in more than 255 missions of study, coordination and humanitarian medical-surgical assistance by Médecins Sans Frontières and AMI in more than 85 countries. He has participated at the invitation of the UN in all annual conferences in September from 2000 until 2019 between the UN and World Civil Society. He went to Iraq in January 1991 at the request of the Prime Minister to successfully rescue the 43 Portuguese who were being held as "human shields" by the government of Saddam Hussein. Proposed in 2003 to the Nobel Peace Prize, and was a candidate, proposed by the PSD, to the Assembly of the Republic President (not elected) . He was a Member of Parliament, integrating, as an independent, the Parliamentary Group of PSD.

A more detailed CV

Jessica Rose

Dr. Jessica Rose is a Canadian researcher, has a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics and a Master's degree in Immunology from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
She holds also a PhD in Computational Biology from Bar Ilan University and 2 Post Doctoral degrees: one in Molecular Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one in Biochemistry from the Technion Institute of Technology. She was also accepted for a 2 month program as a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute before completion of her latest post doctoral degree at the Technion.
Her more recent research efforts are aimed at descriptive analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data in efforts to make this data accessible to the public.

Nuno Filipe Carrasqueira

Degree in Nursing from Escola Superior de Saúde de Leiria MBA for Executives by the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra University Post-Graduation in Training Management by INEPI.
Current Profession: Nurse at the University Hospital Centre of Coimbra Previous experiences: trainer, Secretary-General of the Industrialists Association of Pombal Municipality, Secretary in the Support Offices of the Councillors and the President of Pombal Municipality.
Co-author of the book "A New Basic Law for Health - A Liberal Proposal", coordinated by Filipe Charters de Azevedo