Author
Affilliation
Publisher
Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Citation
RIBEIRO, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel. Obituário. Lea Ferreira Camillo-Coura (1932 -2023) Always first. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, v. 56, (e0107-2023), p.1-2, 2023.
DOI
10.1590/0037-8682-0107-202310.1590/0037-8682-0107-2023
ISSN
0074-0206
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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).
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