Vera Lúcia Nocchi Cardim – MD. PHD

•Medical Formation at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (URFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil (Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1975);

•Residence in General Surgery at Hospital de Clínicas da URFRGS-Porto Alegre, Brazil (1976);

•Residence in Plastic Surgery at the Service of Dr. Antonio Costa Estima, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil (Jan. 1977 to Dec. 1978);

•Specialization in Craniofacial Surgery with Prof. Dr. Jorge Miguel Psillakis, São Paulo – SP- Brazil (Dec. 1978 to Dec. 1981);

•Doctor in Medicine by the Faculty of Medicine of Santa Casa de São Paulo, concentration area in General Surgery (1998);

•Founder and first President of the Brazilian Society of Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery (full member) 1994-1996;

•Full member of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery;

•Associated member of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery;

•Director of the “Núcleo de Plástica Avançada (Advanced Plastic Surgery Center)” at “São Joaquim’s Hospital of the “Real e Benemérita Associação Portuguesa de Beneficência de São Paulo” ( HSJ-RBAPBSP);

•Responsible Professor for the "Latu-Sensu" Post graduation course in Craniofacial Surgery at HSJ-RBAPBSP”;

•Assistant Professor at the Post graduation course in Plastic Surgery of the “Santa Cecília dos Bandeirantes” University, Santos -SP;

•Vice-Director of the Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery Chapter of the Federación Iberolatinoamericana de Cirugía Plástica - FILACAP 2001-2005;

•Treasurer of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery biennium 2004-2005;

•Founder and First President of the F.A.CE Association-Facial Anomalies Center, (a brazilian non-profit organization) registered in 2005, although formed in 1981;

•Representative member at the São Paulo Medical Association – Three-year period 2005-2008;

•Director of the Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery Chapter of the FILACAP 2006-2007. Member of the Commission for Reforms of the Regiments of Congresses, Journeys and others Events of the Brazilian Society of plastic Surgery – biennium 2006-2007.

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