Joao Pinheiro
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João Pinheiro is a medical doctor specialist in Forensic Medicine, PhD in Forensic Sciences and Pathology by the University of Santiago de Compostela with a master's degree in Occupational Health by the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra, Portugal.
He was Vice-President of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (INMLCF) from 2014 to 2017, Director of the Center Branch of this National Institute and advisor to the Medico-Legal Council during the same years.
Director of the Forensic Thanatology Service of the Coimbra Delegation of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, Director of the Residency in Forensic Pathology of the same Delegation and advisor of residents, he has a long expert career of 34 years that he has exercised uninterruptedly, in the Center and South (Lisbon) Branches of the INMLCF and in the Medico-legal Offices of Leiria, Aveiro, Torres Vedras, Braga e Tomar, during which it carried out more than 15 000 forensic examinations, mostly autopsies and forensic anthropology examinations.
As forensic pathologist, he was the first Portuguese expert to participate in United Nations international missions for the documentation of Crimes against Humanity, which began in Kosovo and Bosnia in 2000.
He was author or co-author of more than 400 communications in national and international journals and meetings, most of them in the scientific areas in which he is most interested in – Forensic Pathology and Trauma, Forensic Anthropology, Sudden Infant Death (SIDS), and Forensic Toxicology, especially drugs of abuse. In these areas he has published books and chapters of books in USA, England, Holand, Portugal and Brazil.
He has been teaching, both in the forensic area and in human anatomy, at the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra and, at the High School of Health Technologies of Coimbra. Abroad, he has taught in multiple pre- and post-graduate courses, master's degrees in Spain, France, Scotland, Brazil, the United States and South Africa.
