Obituary - Lea Ferreira Camillo-Coura (1932 2023) Always first

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Silva Filho, Octavio Fernandes da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ (ARCA)
• Texto Completo: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/58226
• topic: Obituário; Lea Ferreira Camillo-Coura (1932 *2023); Obituary; Lea Ferreira Camillo-Coura (1932 *2023)

PARTE DO TEXTO : Professor Lea Ferreira Camillo-Coura was born on June 25, 1932 and died on January 28, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Her career is filled with “first times” and “first placements”. Lea, the daughter of the naval officer Benedicto Barbosa Camillo and Universina Ferreira Barbosa Camillo, graduated in Medicine from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), then called the Faculdade Nacional de Medicina of the Universidade do Brasil, first in her class, in 1957. In 1963, she undertook postgraduate studies at master's level at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, thanks to a scholarship from Fundação da Casa do Brasil in UK. Back in Brazil, she developed activities at the Clinic for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases at the Hospital São Francisco de Assis, UFRJ, from 1964 to 1971, where, after being approved in a public contest proving her knowledge in Clinical Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, and complying with legal requirements, she was promoted through titles analysis to the position of Associate Professor. Lea Camillo-Coura participated in several symposia and served as ad hoc consultant for the Ministry of Health, in Brazil, and as a temporary consultant for the WHO, in different countries around the world, on matters related to Intestinal Parasites, a subject of study to which she dedicated her entire career. She became Professor of the Discipline of Epidemiology (1973) and Teaching Coordinator of the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine, UFRJ (1974-1978). She then took over the Discipline of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases as Full Professor (1975-1988) at the Fundação Técnico Educacional Souza Marques and became Head of the Community Action Service at the University Hospital of UFRJ (1977-1982).