Titular Professor of the Department of Gastroenterology of FMUSP and Head of Division of the Gastroenterology and Clinical Liver Disease of the Hospital das Clínicas, Dr. Flair Carrilho, will receive the EASL International Recognition Award 2019, which recognizes internationally the medical and scientific contribution of personalities in the field of Liver research.
The award ceremony took place on April 12th, during the International Liver Congress held in Vienna, Austria. Prof. Flair Carrilho is the first liver specialist of Latin America to receive the award.
The award is promoted by the European Association for Study of the Liver (EASL) and is dedicated to active and brilliant scientists who provide great advancements in science, knowledge and clinical care, renowned and admired in the whole world for their accomplishments.
Prof. Flair is one of the responsible for the expansion and innovation of the Department of Gastroenterology of the HCFMUSP which computes, per year, 4.500 clinical and surgical hospitalizations, 30.000 ambulatory attendances, 2.400 surgeries, including 105 liver transplants and 10 pancreas transplants, 34.000 endoscopies and from 120 to 140 published articles per year in scientific periodicals.
The dedication of the hepatologist with teaching, research and assistance has led the international medical community to nominate him, in 2017, for the coordination of a network of researches in Latin America, which will seek to define the mechanisms of the Acute Failure Syndrome over Liver Chronic Condition.
The ACLARA Project, which will investigate 1.500 patients, with acute cirrhosis decompensation, of 54 hospitals distributed around Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru. The study will allow the better comprehension of the cirrhosis complications in populations of several ethnic groups and define criteria for a more effective treatment.
The cirrhosis is the 7th cause of adult death in the world. In the Latin-American population the disease is more frequent and the mortality rates are higher, if compared with the European population. At the Hospital das Clínicas, the disease represents 8% of the emergency attendances. The alcohol, the viral hepatitis and the liver fatness are responsible for 90% of the causes.
Trajectory
Graduated from the Londrina University, the doctor joined FMUSP in 1981. In 2004, he was named Titular Professor of Gastroenterology, which allowed him to redesign the department with his peers, applying the European method.
Ever since, over the last 45 years, Prof. Flair has been writing the history of Hepatology. He is the highlight in the projects of human resources formation in Brazil; on studies of molecular epidemiology of the Hepatitis B virus in Brazil and Latin America; at the implantation of survey and early detection of the hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis patients; and in the implementation of a scientific relation among the Hospital das Clínicas Complex and the Hospital Clínic of the Medical School of the Barcelona University.
