Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio was born in Rio de Janeiro on October 4, 1954.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 1983), a Master’s in morphological sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 1986), and a Ph.D. in sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp, 1989).
Dr. Sampaio was elected as a Full Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine – ANM) on August 19, 1999, only 15 years after graduating from university and succeeded Academy Member José Maria Pinto Barcellos. To be approved for the position, he submitted a dissertation named “Morphological and Biochemical Modifications of the Gubernaculum during Testicular Migration in Human Fetuses.”
He took office on September 28, 1999, at which time he was welcomed to the institution by Academy Member and former President Sergio D’Avila Aguinága. The Introduction Committee of the plenary sitting was composed of Academy Members Fioravanti Alonso di Piero, Francisco Fialho, Mario Giorgio Marrano (Honorary Member), Roberto Soares de Moura, Gerson Cotta-Pereira, and Fernando Pires Vaz. Dr. Sampaio received his diploma by the hands of Honorary Member Leonidas Cortes (the oldest practicing Urologist in all of Brazil at the time).
The induction ceremony was led by Academy Member Aloysio de Salles Fonseca, who, as usual, delivered a magnificent speech, stating, at one point, that, “We have two distinct personalities embracing the same specialty: Sergio Aguinága and Francisco Sampaio. And these Professors in the field of Urology are so interesting and captivating that not only did we witness, but will continue to witness, a procession of Full Professors of Urology from all over the country. I cannot recall, throughout my many years as an Academy Member, ever having had the opportunity to see Full Members of one particular specialty being newly appointed as new Academy Members. I simply cannot recall such an instance! I am confident that throughout the history of this Academy over the past 50 years, we have never had so many Full Professors of one particular field as that of the member being honored that we have seated at the presiding table. And if that were not enough, there are still others here at this plenary sitting!”
Dr. Sampaio passed a 1995 diploma-based civil service examination to hold the position of Full Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UERJ) Biomedical Center. There, he was responsible for establishing the department and has been in charge of the university’s Urogenital Research Unit since 1989 (www.urogenitalresearch.org).
He has a medical practice in urology and was awarded a Specialist Title by the Brazilian Society of Urology in 1987, after being approved in another diploma-based civil service examination.
He has worked as a continuous Level 1A-certified researcher at CNPq (the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) since 1986 and was honored with a Scientist of Our State title granted by FAPERJ (the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro).
Dr. Sampaio is a graduate program supervisor and has mentored and co-mentored forty-nine Master’s, thirty-seven Doctorate students, and three Postdoctoral students since 1990. As an undergraduate supervisor, he has overseen over one hundred scientific initiation scholarship students admitted from official research funding institutions.
He founded and oversees the Graduate Program in Surgery at UERJ’s School of Medical Sciences (Physiopathology and Surgical Sciences – www.fisiocirurgiauerj.org – FCM), which CAPES gave a 5-star rating and which successfully meshes basic research activities and a host of surgical specialties. The program fulfilled a long-standing need expressed by the entire State of Rio de Janeiro academic community.
Furthermore, Dr. Sampaio served as Coordinator of CAPES/MEC’s (the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education of the Brazilian Ministry of Education) Medicine-III (Surgery) Department for two terms: 2005 to 2007 and 2008 to 2011. During his tenure at the institution, from 2004 to 2009 (available on Scimago), the Medicine-III Department’s scientific research activities climbed from the seventeenth to the eighth position in the global ranking.
Dr. Sampaio worked as an Editor-in-Chief at International Braz J Urol (www.brazjurol.com.br), the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology, from January 2000 to January 2010. During this time, the journal successfully collected and gathered all its papers (Scielo, PubMed, and ISI/Web of Science) and became Latin America as well as the Iberian Peninsula’s top-ranked journal in the fields of urology, surgery, and surgical specialties, thereby rising to the ranks of the third journal with the highest relevance throughout all medical and biological fields during that time frame.
The renowned physician also composed the Editorial Board and is an ad-hoc reviewer for several international journals in the fields of urology, andrology, surgery, and morphology, with a focus on kidney, prostate, testicle, urethra, bladder, urolithiasis, and oncology-related subjects.
He has over two hundred scientific articles published in internationally renowned journals assembled in PubMed/Medline and authored a book on Urological Anatomy that was published in New York by the ThiemeVerlag publishing company, in addition to two books addressing the topic of renal anatomy, which were published in Brazil.
Moreover, Dr. Sampaio has contributed over twenty book chapters to books published outside of Brazil as well as more than sixty book chapters in Brazil. He has also continuously and successfully managed to secure funding for research studies from official research funding institutions for over thirty years.
Dr. Sampaio is a visiting professor at several higher education institutions and holds experience in the fields of morphology and urology, with a focus on the following subjects: kidney, prostate, penis, testicle, bladder, urethra.
Some of his main Awards, Honors and accomplishments include:
1986 – The “Frederico Froes” Award, National Academy of Medicine.
1987 – First place in the Brazilian Society of Urology’s Specialist Title Examination.
1987 – The “Alberto Gentile” Award and Medal for a first-place finish in the Public Specialist Title Examination in Urology organized by the Brazilian Society of Urology.
1994 – The Friend of the Navy Title awarded by the Brazilian navy-managed Marcílio Dias Naval Hospital.
1995 – An award-winning film titled “Conservative Surgery in Renal Cell Carcinoma, Anatomical Basis for Polar Resection,” Video Urology Times (NY, USA).
1995 – Runner-up in the category of Best Picture with a film called “Ureteropelvic Junction Stenosis: Vascular Background for Safe Endopyelotomy,” 7th Video Urology World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
1999 – Class Patron – Urology Residents, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
1999 – The Campos Freire Award (among 1,100 open subject essays), XXVII Brazilian Congress of Urology, RJ.
2000 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP).
2000-2010 – Editor-in-Chief, International Braz J Urol.
2001 – Voted Best Article, “Characterization of Glycosaminoglycans in the Human Penis,” VI Latin American Congress on Sexual Impotence, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
2001 – The Pedro Ernesto Title and Medal of Merit, Rio de Janeiro City Council.
2002 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS).
2002 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre).
2002 – The Tiradentes Title and Medal, Rio de Janeiro Chamber of Deputies.
2003 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
2003 – Certificate of Recognition, Urogenital Research Unit, Rio de Janeiro City Council.
2004 – Best Experimental Work in Urology, XVI Jornada Carioca de Urologia (Rio de Janeiro Urology Conference), Brazilian Society of Urology – Rio de Janeiro Division.
2005 – Visiting Professor, Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP).
2005 – Class Patron for Graduates (residents and graduate students – 2005), Subject of Urology and Graduate Program in Urology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP).
2007 – Special Honors, Patron of the III Urological Marathon of Rio de Janeiro.
2007 – Gold Cystoscope Award for academic contributions and education of disciples, University of São Paulo (USP) – Department of Urology.
2008 – Visiting Professor, Division of Urology, University of Minnesota, USA.
2008 – Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2008 – Phaitun Gojaseni Lecture, Honorary Speaker, 20th Thai Urological Association, The Thai Urological Association under the Royal Patronage. Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital.
2008 – Análise em Medicina (2008 Medical Analysis) Award, Revista Análise (Journal of Analysis), Most Admired by peers from other fields.
2008 – The Henrique Rupp Award – for academic contributions and education of students, Albarran Urology Institute.
2008 – Special Honors. XI National Congress of Experimental Surgery. 2010 – Tribute for efforts conducted as the Coordinator of Department – Surgery, III Medicine Evaluation Commission, CAPES/MEC.
2011 – Best Poster, 26th Annual Congress of the European Urological Association, Vienna, Austria.
2011 – The Juscelino Kubitschek Medal awarded by the Brazilian Society of Urology.
2013 – Best Poster, 28th Annual European Congress of Urology, Milan, Italy.
2013 – Voted best basic academic paper, XXXIV Brazilian Congress of Urology.
2013 – Best Poster, 28th Annual European Congress of Urology, Milan, Italy.
2014 – Best Poster, 29th Annual European Congress of Urology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Throughout his life as an academician (past thirty-two years), Dr. Sampaio has endeavored to bridge the gap between the initial years at medical schools, medical practice, and surgery. He has continuously held a productivity-based scholarship since 1986 at CNPq, where he has researched at the 3-C, 3-B, 3-A, 2-C, 2-A, 1-C, and 1-A levels, respectively. He has been a 1-A level researcher since 2001.
He has additionally been a Full Member of the ANM, Applied Medical Sciences Division (Chair Number 92), since 1999.
Also, at the ANM, Dr. Sampaio held the position of Head Treasurer from 2001 to 2003, and additionally served as President of the Applied Medical Sciences Division (2009-2011), as well as Vice-President (2013-2015).
During the 2015-2017 term, he broke a 65-year spell to become another ANM President hailing from the Applied Medical Sciences Division.
Academic number: 602
Chair: 92
Member: Holder
Section: Applied Medical Sciences
Election: 19/08/1999
Inauguration: 28/09/1999
President: Aloysio de Salles Fonseca
Greeted by: Sergio d’Avila Aguinága
Academic number: 602
Chair: 92
Member: Holder
Section: Applied Medical Sciences
Election: 19/08/1999
Inauguration: 28/09/1999
President: Aloysio de Salles Fonseca
Greeted by: Sergio d’Avila Aguinága
Francisco José Barcellos Sampaio was born in Rio de Janeiro on October 4, 1954.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 1983), a Master’s in morphological sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 1986), and a Ph.D. in sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp, 1989).
Dr. Sampaio was elected as a Full Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine – ANM) on August 19, 1999, only 15 years after graduating from university and succeeded Academy Member José Maria Pinto Barcellos. To be approved for the position, he submitted a dissertation named “Morphological and Biochemical Modifications of the Gubernaculum during Testicular Migration in Human Fetuses.”
He took office on September 28, 1999, at which time he was welcomed to the institution by Academy Member and former President Sergio D’Avila Aguinága. The Introduction Committee of the plenary sitting was composed of Academy Members Fioravanti Alonso di Piero, Francisco Fialho, Mario Giorgio Marrano (Honorary Member), Roberto Soares de Moura, Gerson Cotta-Pereira, and Fernando Pires Vaz. Dr. Sampaio received his diploma by the hands of Honorary Member Leonidas Cortes (the oldest practicing Urologist in all of Brazil at the time).
The induction ceremony was led by Academy Member Aloysio de Salles Fonseca, who, as usual, delivered a magnificent speech, stating, at one point, that, “We have two distinct personalities embracing the same specialty: Sergio Aguinága and Francisco Sampaio. And these Professors in the field of Urology are so interesting and captivating that not only did we witness, but will continue to witness, a procession of Full Professors of Urology from all over the country. I cannot recall, throughout my many years as an Academy Member, ever having had the opportunity to see Full Members of one particular specialty being newly appointed as new Academy Members. I simply cannot recall such an instance! I am confident that throughout the history of this Academy over the past 50 years, we have never had so many Full Professors of one particular field as that of the member being honored that we have seated at the presiding table. And if that were not enough, there are still others here at this plenary sitting!”
Dr. Sampaio passed a 1995 diploma-based civil service examination to hold the position of Full Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UERJ) Biomedical Center. There, he was responsible for establishing the department and has been in charge of the university’s Urogenital Research Unit since 1989 (www.urogenitalresearch.org).
He has a medical practice in urology and was awarded a Specialist Title by the Brazilian Society of Urology in 1987, after being approved in another diploma-based civil service examination.
He has worked as a continuous Level 1A-certified researcher at CNPq (the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) since 1986 and was honored with a Scientist of Our State title granted by FAPERJ (the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro).
Dr. Sampaio is a graduate program supervisor and has mentored and co-mentored forty-nine Master’s, thirty-seven Doctorate students, and three Postdoctoral students since 1990. As an undergraduate supervisor, he has overseen over one hundred scientific initiation scholarship students admitted from official research funding institutions.
He founded and oversees the Graduate Program in Surgery at UERJ’s School of Medical Sciences (Physiopathology and Surgical Sciences – www.fisiocirurgiauerj.org – FCM), which CAPES gave a 5-star rating and which successfully meshes basic research activities and a host of surgical specialties. The program fulfilled a long-standing need expressed by the entire State of Rio de Janeiro academic community.
Furthermore, Dr. Sampaio served as Coordinator of CAPES/MEC’s (the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education of the Brazilian Ministry of Education) Medicine-III (Surgery) Department for two terms: 2005 to 2007 and 2008 to 2011. During his tenure at the institution, from 2004 to 2009 (available on Scimago), the Medicine-III Department’s scientific research activities climbed from the seventeenth to the eighth position in the global ranking.
Dr. Sampaio worked as an Editor-in-Chief at International Braz J Urol (www.brazjurol.com.br), the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology, from January 2000 to January 2010. During this time, the journal successfully collected and gathered all its papers (Scielo, PubMed, and ISI/Web of Science) and became Latin America as well as the Iberian Peninsula’s top-ranked journal in the fields of urology, surgery, and surgical specialties, thereby rising to the ranks of the third journal with the highest relevance throughout all medical and biological fields during that time frame.
The renowned physician also composed the Editorial Board and is an ad-hoc reviewer for several international journals in the fields of urology, andrology, surgery, and morphology, with a focus on kidney, prostate, testicle, urethra, bladder, urolithiasis, and oncology-related subjects.
He has over two hundred scientific articles published in internationally renowned journals assembled in PubMed/Medline and authored a book on Urological Anatomy that was published in New York by the ThiemeVerlag publishing company, in addition to two books addressing the topic of renal anatomy, which were published in Brazil.
Moreover, Dr. Sampaio has contributed over twenty book chapters to books published outside of Brazil as well as more than sixty book chapters in Brazil. He has also continuously and successfully managed to secure funding for research studies from official research funding institutions for over thirty years.
Dr. Sampaio is a visiting professor at several higher education institutions and holds experience in the fields of morphology and urology, with a focus on the following subjects: kidney, prostate, penis, testicle, bladder, urethra.
Some of his main Awards, Honors and accomplishments include:
1986 – The “Frederico Froes” Award, National Academy of Medicine.
1987 – First place in the Brazilian Society of Urology’s Specialist Title Examination.
1987 – The “Alberto Gentile” Award and Medal for a first-place finish in the Public Specialist Title Examination in Urology organized by the Brazilian Society of Urology.
1994 – The Friend of the Navy Title awarded by the Brazilian navy-managed Marcílio Dias Naval Hospital.
1995 – An award-winning film titled “Conservative Surgery in Renal Cell Carcinoma, Anatomical Basis for Polar Resection,” Video Urology Times (NY, USA).
1995 – Runner-up in the category of Best Picture with a film called “Ureteropelvic Junction Stenosis: Vascular Background for Safe Endopyelotomy,” 7th Video Urology World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
1999 – Class Patron – Urology Residents, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
1999 – The Campos Freire Award (among 1,100 open subject essays), XXVII Brazilian Congress of Urology, RJ.
2000 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP).
2000-2010 – Editor-in-Chief, International Braz J Urol.
2001 – Voted Best Article, “Characterization of Glycosaminoglycans in the Human Penis,” VI Latin American Congress on Sexual Impotence, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
2001 – The Pedro Ernesto Title and Medal of Merit, Rio de Janeiro City Council.
2002 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS).
2002 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre).
2002 – The Tiradentes Title and Medal, Rio de Janeiro Chamber of Deputies.
2003 – Visiting Professor, Subject of Urology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
2003 – Certificate of Recognition, Urogenital Research Unit, Rio de Janeiro City Council.
2004 – Best Experimental Work in Urology, XVI Jornada Carioca de Urologia (Rio de Janeiro Urology Conference), Brazilian Society of Urology – Rio de Janeiro Division.
2005 – Visiting Professor, Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP).
2005 – Class Patron for Graduates (residents and graduate students – 2005), Subject of Urology and Graduate Program in Urology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP).
2007 – Special Honors, Patron of the III Urological Marathon of Rio de Janeiro.
2007 – Gold Cystoscope Award for academic contributions and education of disciples, University of São Paulo (USP) – Department of Urology.
2008 – Visiting Professor, Division of Urology, University of Minnesota, USA.
2008 – Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2008 – Phaitun Gojaseni Lecture, Honorary Speaker, 20th Thai Urological Association, The Thai Urological Association under the Royal Patronage. Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital.
2008 – Análise em Medicina (2008 Medical Analysis) Award, Revista Análise (Journal of Analysis), Most Admired by peers from other fields.
2008 – The Henrique Rupp Award – for academic contributions and education of students, Albarran Urology Institute.
2008 – Special Honors. XI National Congress of Experimental Surgery. 2010 – Tribute for efforts conducted as the Coordinator of Department – Surgery, III Medicine Evaluation Commission, CAPES/MEC.
2011 – Best Poster, 26th Annual Congress of the European Urological Association, Vienna, Austria.
2011 – The Juscelino Kubitschek Medal awarded by the Brazilian Society of Urology.
2013 – Best Poster, 28th Annual European Congress of Urology, Milan, Italy.
2013 – Voted best basic academic paper, XXXIV Brazilian Congress of Urology.
2013 – Best Poster, 28th Annual European Congress of Urology, Milan, Italy.
2014 – Best Poster, 29th Annual European Congress of Urology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Throughout his life as an academician (past thirty-two years), Dr. Sampaio has endeavored to bridge the gap between the initial years at medical schools, medical practice, and surgery. He has continuously held a productivity-based scholarship since 1986 at CNPq, where he has researched at the 3-C, 3-B, 3-A, 2-C, 2-A, 1-C, and 1-A levels, respectively. He has been a 1-A level researcher since 2001.
He has additionally been a Full Member of the ANM, Applied Medical Sciences Division (Chair Number 92), since 1999.
Also, at the ANM, Dr. Sampaio held the position of Head Treasurer from 2001 to 2003, and additionally served as President of the Applied Medical Sciences Division (2009-2011), as well as Vice-President (2013-2015).
During the 2015-2017 term, he broke a 65-year spell to become another ANM President hailing from the Applied Medical Sciences Division.