Gustavo de Souza Portes Meirelles

Gustavo Meirelles, MD, PhD, is a radiologist, with medical residency, specialization and doctorate in thoracic radiology at Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, where I worked for many years as affiliated professor and supervisor of resident physicians. He did his postdoctoral work in PET/CT at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), specialization in chest radiology at British Columbia University (Vancouver) and MBA in Business Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo. He is the chief medical officer and vice president of Afya, founder of the Healthcare Innovation Community, which has more than 10,000 participants interested in the topic, and of Saúde4x, an initiative focused on education and consultancy in healthcare innovation and digital transformation. Gustavo worked for almost 20 years at Grupo Fleury, as a radiologist and medical manager of radiology, strategy and innovation, was medical director and vice-president of Alliança Excelência em Saúde, and CEO and chairman of iDr - Inteligência Diagnóstica Remota. Gustavo gave several lectures at medical and innovation events in 12 countries, having published more than 100 scientific articles in indexed journals, 50 book chapters and more than 200 papers at events. He was an advisor for undergraduate and graduate theses and is currently a reviewer for scientific journals in the areas of medicine and innovation. Gustavo is member of the global advisory board of Agfa Radiology and also part of the scientific advisory board of Boehringer-Ingelheim.He founded Ambra Saúde, a startup focused on management and storage of medical images in the cloud, and is a partner and mentor of other startups in the sector, such as Kuri Saúde, Munai, Neuralmed, Salubrum and OniDoc. He is a board member at Enleva Saúde, a healthcare asset management company through PPPs and strategic partnerships, and at the NGO Zoé, and columnist for MIT Sloan Management Review Brasil. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)