Henrique Lage Ferreira Ferrer

Resident Physician in Ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the Paulista School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo (2023-2026). Graduated in Medicine from the Paulista School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo (2017-2022). He was a FAPESP scholarship holder (Process: 2018/04776-7) between 2018-2019, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. João Bosco Pesquero, at the Center for Research and Molecular Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases. He presented his scientific initiation work at the World Symposium on Lysosomal Diseases, in San Diego, in 2018, at BRAINCOMS 2019, having been awarded as the best work in basic science, and at ISCOMS, in the Netherlands, in 2019, in the oral presentations session. He participated in two works of the group published in 2020 in the journals Nephron (DOI: 10.1159/000503998) and Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (DOI: 10.1186/s13023-019-1274-3). He was a member of the scientific committee of BRAINCOMS 2018 - Brazilian International Congress of Medical Students, under the preceptorship and tutorship of Prof. Dr. José Medina. He was part of the Academic League of Ophthalmology of EPM, from 2019 to 2022, having been director-president between 2020 and 2021. In June 2019, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Henri Leuvenink. In 2020, he was part of the organizing committee of the MIT COVID-19 Challenge, Latin America vs COVID-19, a "hackathon" event linked to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, between May and June. He was a Histology monitor in the Department of Morphology in 2019. In high school, he did an exchange program in Santa Bárbara, California and was successful in Scientific Olympiads (Robotics, Chemistry), having passed the EPM entrance exam at the age of 17, coming from the city of Ipatinga-MG. In 2022, he was awarded by the Pereira Barreto Academic Athletic Association as a technical highlight in the sport "Men's Tennis". He does volunteer work at the NGO Instituto Primeiro Serviço, which supports vulnerable young people through tennis and education. He is interested in the field of Ophthalmology - Surgical Retina. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. In 2022, he was approved in the ACLS and PALS courses, linked to the American Heart Association. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)