Profile

Alexandre Castro Caldas (1948)
Degree (1973), PhD (1980), Aggregation (1985), Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon.
Full Professor of Neurology and Director of the Neurology Department until 2004.
Specialist in Neurology (1980) Head of Department (1990)
Director of the Institute of Health Sciences at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2004-2022). Coordinator of the Health Area since then, and Full Professor at Catolica Medical School.
He was President of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon and Secretary of the Scientific Council.
He was the Director of the Egas Moniz Study Center and the Language Studies Laboratory.
He was Secretary and President of the Portuguese Society of Neurology.
He was President of the College of Neurology of the Medical Association.
He was a member of the Board of the International Society of Neuropsychology and later President in 2000.
He was a member of the National Health Council representing the University, as appointed by the Council of Rectors.
Around 200 articles and book chapters published, 10 books published.
Various awards, including 3 times the Pfizer award from the Society of Medical Sciences, the Bial award, and the Distinguished Career Award from the International Neuropsychological Society.
Member, among others, of the American Academy of Neurology, the Movement Disorders Society, the International Neuropsychological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Portuguese Society of Neurology, the Society of Medical Sciences.
Member of the Portuguese Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.