Jose Osmar Medina de Abreu Pestana

He completed his degree at the Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in 1979, after having worked as a lathe mechanic between the ages of 16 and 19 and as a laboratory technician throughout his undergraduate course. He completed his Medical Residency in Nephrology at Hospital São Paulo in 1983, remaining linked to the institution as head of duty in the Emergency Room and leading the kidney transplant group. After obtaining the title of doctor of medicine in 1986 in the discipline of nephrology in kidney transplantation, he completed two post-doctoral courses, one in the clinical area of kidney transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, between 1987 and 1988, and the other in experimental transplantation. at the University of Oxford, England in 1989. After his return to Brazil in 1990, he resumed leadership of the UNIFESP organ transplant program, and since then has participated in the entire process of legal and logistical consolidation of organ transplant programs in the Brazil. In 1998 he coordinated the beginning of clinical care and teaching activities at Hospital do Rim - Fundação Oswaldo Ramos, where he remains one of the leaders in its organization and direction. After 25 years of activity, Hospital do Rim today has the largest kidney transplant program in the world, having performed more than 19 thousand transplants and trained more than 2500 professionals who today occupy important positions in transplant programs in other Brazilian states. He twice presided over the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplantation and the Latin American Society of Transplants and has presided over the Research Ethics Committee at UNIFESP since 1996, being a member of the Ethics Committee of the International Transplant Society. He carries out voluntary work in different communities. Initially, in health care for Xingu Indians, followed by more than 30 years of clinical activity in the city of Ipaussu. He is currently involved in coordinating the development of transplant programs in some sub-Saharan African countries. His volunteer work was recognized several times, having been awarded the titles of honorary citizen of São Paulo, Soteropolitano and Baiano. Dr. Medina is also deeply interested in the quality of medical education. For 17 years, he has been developing voluntary tutoring activities focused on students admitted to the medical course through the racial quota system, where he cultivates motivation and restlessness, at the same time promoting language learning and international exchange for these students. In recognition of his academic dedication, Dr. Medina was named patron of the graduating class of the medical course in 2013. He also exercises leadership in clinical and experimental research in transplants, having already published 484 manuscripts in national and international journals, in addition to giving lectures in the main Brazilian and international universities. In 2004, he was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England based on the extent of his activity in organ transplantation. In 2012, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, where he met Professor Joseph Murray, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, who performed the first kidney transplant in 1954. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was an active member of the Coronavirus Contingency Committee of the State of São Paulo, being the Coordinator during the period from August/2020 to December/2020. He is currently a professor of nephrology at Escola Paulista de Medicina UNIFESP, member of the Advisory Board of the International Transplant Society (TTS-The Transplantation Society) and superintendent director of Hospital do Rim. He occupies chair number 50 of the National Academy of Medicine, is a Member of the Superior Strategic Council of FIESP and is a Representative on the Committee of the Productive and Economic Complex of Health and Biotechnology-COMSAUDE of FIESP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)