Son of Osório Accioly de Moraes and D. Djanira de Oliveira Moraes, Marcos Fernando de Oliveira Moraes was born in Palmeiras dos Índios in the State of Alagoas on August 10, 1936.
He graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UERJ) College of Medical Sciences in 1963.
Dr. Moraes was sworn in as a Full Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine – ANM) in 1997, after submitting an essay titled “Technical Standardization of Radical Gastrectomy.” His inauguration ceremony took place on September 30, 1997, and shortly thereafter he led the institution from 2007 to 2009. His tenure was largely responsible for erecting the National Medical Memory Center on an adjacent plot next to the organization headquarters’ building.
He served as Dean of the National Cancer Institute (INCA) for eight consecutive years and helped to draw up the National Cancer Program in the 1990s, thereby greatly contributing to help define cancer treatment policies in Brazil. As a result of several successful enterprises, including a tobacco control policy, the World Health Organization (WHO) appointed the Institute as a collaborator for the Tobacco or Health Program.
During his time in office at INCA, he led several efforts to further efforts already underway to detect cancer at its early stages, with INCA, the Hospital of Oncology (formerly referred to as Inamps), the Luíza Gomes de Lemos Hospital (of the Associação das Pioneiras Sociais – Association of Social Pioneers) and Pro-Onco (of the National Oncology Program) subsequently following suit and introducing these measures.
Dr. Moraes then helped to establish the Ary Frauzino Foundation for Cancer Research (FAF), aimed at providing financial aid to INCA and for cancer-related research studies. He served as President of FAF’s Board of Trustees and ran the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Programa Interinstitucional de Pesquisa, Ensino e Extensão na Biologia do Câncer (Interinstitutional Program for Research, Education and Continuing Education in Cancer Biology). In 2007, he was elected President of the ANM, with a second tenure commencing in 2011.
At the Hospital of Ipanema, he was in charge of overseeing and leading the institution’s Department of Soft Tissue Tumors and Oncology Committee, as well as its medical residency program.
Dr. Moraes completed a Master of Science in Surgery Degree at the University of Illinois in the United States; he titled his final paper “The Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in Experimental Duodenal Ulceration”. He was granted the position of Fellow at the University of Illinois’ Division of Surgical Oncology and was additionally a Full Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department of Surgery at Gama Filho University, as well as serving as President and founding member of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology and the American Trauma Society in Chicago.
The cancer specialist was also a member, and later, President of the Sociedade Latino-americana de Diretores de Institutos Nacionais do Câncer (Latin American Society of Directors of National Cancer Institutes) and a member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Surgical Oncology.
He officially represented Brazil in World Health Organization-held National Cancer Control Programs and took on the position of President of the Association of Philanthropic Anti-Cancer Institutions (ABIFCC).
To top off his vast list of professional accomplishments, the distinguished physician was granted a Research Excellence Award by the Kroc Foundation in California.
Dr. Marcos Fernando de Oliveira Moraes passed away on May 4, 2020.
Academic number: 593
Chair: 68
Member: Holder
Section: Surgery
Election: 14/08/1997
Inauguration: 30/09/1997
President: Jarbas Anacleto Porto
Death: 04/05/2020
Academic number: 593
Chair: 68
Member: Holder
Section: Surgery
Election: 14/08/1997
Inauguration: 30/09/1997
President: Jarbas Anacleto Porto
Death: 04/05/2020
Son of Osório Accioly de Moraes and D. Djanira de Oliveira Moraes, Marcos Fernando de Oliveira Moraes was born in Palmeiras dos Índios in the State of Alagoas on August 10, 1936.
He graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UERJ) College of Medical Sciences in 1963.
Dr. Moraes was sworn in as a Full Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine – ANM) in 1997, after submitting an essay titled “Technical Standardization of Radical Gastrectomy.” His inauguration ceremony took place on September 30, 1997, and shortly thereafter he led the institution from 2007 to 2009. His tenure was largely responsible for erecting the National Medical Memory Center on an adjacent plot next to the organization headquarters’ building.
He served as Dean of the National Cancer Institute (INCA) for eight consecutive years and helped to draw up the National Cancer Program in the 1990s, thereby greatly contributing to help define cancer treatment policies in Brazil. As a result of several successful enterprises, including a tobacco control policy, the World Health Organization (WHO) appointed the Institute as a collaborator for the Tobacco or Health Program.
During his time in office at INCA, he led several efforts to further efforts already underway to detect cancer at its early stages, with INCA, the Hospital of Oncology (formerly referred to as Inamps), the Luíza Gomes de Lemos Hospital (of the Associação das Pioneiras Sociais – Association of Social Pioneers) and Pro-Onco (of the National Oncology Program) subsequently following suit and introducing these measures.
Dr. Moraes then helped to establish the Ary Frauzino Foundation for Cancer Research (FAF), aimed at providing financial aid to INCA and for cancer-related research studies. He served as President of FAF’s Board of Trustees and ran the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Programa Interinstitucional de Pesquisa, Ensino e Extensão na Biologia do Câncer (Interinstitutional Program for Research, Education and Continuing Education in Cancer Biology). In 2007, he was elected President of the ANM, with a second tenure commencing in 2011.
At the Hospital of Ipanema, he was in charge of overseeing and leading the institution’s Department of Soft Tissue Tumors and Oncology Committee, as well as its medical residency program.
Dr. Moraes completed a Master of Science in Surgery Degree at the University of Illinois in the United States; he titled his final paper “The Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in Experimental Duodenal Ulceration”. He was granted the position of Fellow at the University of Illinois’ Division of Surgical Oncology and was additionally a Full Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department of Surgery at Gama Filho University, as well as serving as President and founding member of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology and the American Trauma Society in Chicago.
The cancer specialist was also a member, and later, President of the Sociedade Latino-americana de Diretores de Institutos Nacionais do Câncer (Latin American Society of Directors of National Cancer Institutes) and a member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Surgical Oncology.
He officially represented Brazil in World Health Organization-held National Cancer Control Programs and took on the position of President of the Association of Philanthropic Anti-Cancer Institutions (ABIFCC).
To top off his vast list of professional accomplishments, the distinguished physician was granted a Research Excellence Award by the Kroc Foundation in California.
Dr. Marcos Fernando de Oliveira Moraes passed away on May 4, 2020.