Alexandre Amato

Professor of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Santo Amaro (UNISA). 

Specialist in General Surgery by the Brazilian College of Surgeons. 

Expert in Vascular Surgery by the Brazilian Medical Association and the Brazilian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (AMB and SBACV). 

Expert in Angioradiology and Endovascular Surgery by the Brazilian Medical Association and the Brazilian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery. 

Expert in Vascular Ultrasound by Brazilian College of Radiology. 

Graduate School of Medicine of Sorocaba – Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. (PUC-SP) 

Award "Cassio Rosa" for best performance and curriculum in the area of General Surgery. 

Director of Academic Computing Center Vital Brazil from 2000 to 2001. 

2nd Lieutenant Medical Reserve Air Force.  General Surgeon of the Air Force’s Hospital of Sao Paulo in 2005. 

Author of the book: "Procedimentos Médicos: Técnica e Tatica" and co-author of the books: "Metodologia da Pesquisa Científica” and “Manual do Médico Generalista na Era do Conhecimento” of the publisher Roca. 

Author of five chapters in the book "Tratado de Clínica Cirúrgica" and a chapter in "Tratado de Clínica Medica" 

Editor of the virtual magazine on health and culture: Cultura & Saúde (www.culturaesaude.med.br). 

Has published scientific articles in national and international journals, and articles for scientific publication in the journal Cultural Supplement of the Paulista Association of Medicine, which received highest honors in the prize Dr. Cidadão (Dr Citizen) granted in 2007. 

Webmaster fifteen sites. Developer of the computerized system for Surgical Risk Assessment tool (www.riscocirurgico.com.br) and evaluation of risk factors on the site Check-up MED which yield an interesting paper on health informatics: “The impact of online self-evaluation on self-awareness and lifestyle habits”. 

Professor and creator of the OsiriX Course for Vascular Surgeons (www.curso-osirix.com.br) and the online course for the OsiriX tool (www.osirixcourse.com). The off line course has already been given for thousands of vascular surgeons in Brazil and has yielded the following article (yet in press): "Impact of continued education in vascular images analysis for vascular planning."

Attending physician of the Department of Vascular Surgery Ospedale San Raffaele's - "Vita-Salute" University of Milan, under the direction of Prof. Roberto Chiesa in 2008.

Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Amato - Instituto de Medicina Avançada, São Paulo, Brazil

Vascular.pro, São Paulo, Brazil

Associação Brasileira de Lipedema.

Universidade Santo Amaro (UNISA), São Paulo, Brazil