Sobrinho Simões acknowledged once again

Manuel Sobrinho Simões and lawyer Margaret Cooper, who was honored at the same time, join a "restricted list of distinguished and meritorious personalities" that includes several Nobel Prize winners, emphasized Jo Martin, president of The Royal College of Pathologists.

Co-author of some 350 original scientific articles, reviews, and case reports published in international journals and author of many chapters of the WHO Book on endocrine tumors, Sobrinho Simões was president of the European Society of Pathology and formed the Moscow Division of the European School of Pathology. He also organized the first two intercontinental pathology congresses with the Latin American Pathology Society (2000 and 2004) and was President of the European College of Pathology. He is a member of the Scientific Councils of the European School of Pathology, the European Course of Cellular Pathology, and the European Cancer Prevention Association and is a member of the Editorial Board of the U.S. Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology (ADASP).

Sobrinho Simões is also an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands (Barcelona, 1988), Sociedade Brasileira de Cancerologia (Rio de Janeiro, 1997), Spanish Society of Pathological Anatomy (Madrid, 1998), Medical Society of Cordoba (Argentina, 2001) and Portuguese Societies of Endocrinology (2004) and Surgery (2005). From now on, with this award, he is also an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Pathological Anatomy.

In parallel with his scientific career, Sobrinho Simões cemented his teaching career at FMUP, where he graduated and was a full professor of Pathological Anatomy until his jubilation in 2017. He also taught at the Zhengzhou University School of Medicine and at about 30 European, North American, Latin American, Asian universities, and institutes of oncology. He was also Head of Service at the Hospital S. João in Porto.

Considered the most influential pathologist in the world by the scientific journal The Pathologist, in 2015. Sobrinho Simões has won several national and international awards throughout his career: Bordalo - Science Prize (1996), Seiva Trupe - Science Prize (2002), the Pessoa Prize (2002), Portuguese Cruz Vermelha (2002) and the Grand Prix Ciência Viva Montepio (2016). He has been awarded the title of Commander and Grand Officer of the Royal Order of Norway (2003 and 2010), Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique (2004) and Grand Cross of the Military Order of Sant'Iago of the Sword (2017). In 2013, Manuel Sobrinho Simões received the distinguished service medal from the Ministry of Health, and in 2017, the Merit Award for Competence in Health Services Management, awarded by the Portuguese Ordem dos Médicos. In 2018, he was awarded a Gago Prize in European Scientific Policy and the Río Ortega Prize from the Spanish Society of Pathology. This distinction from the Royal College of Pathologists was also awarded in 2018, although the official ceremony took place only at the beginning of October this year.

Manuel Sobrinho Simões is currently a non-executive director of the Serralves Foundation and a member of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN). He also chairs the National Council of Clinical Academic Centers and the Council of the National Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (A3ES).