António Oliveira is Invited Full Professor and responsible for the Regency of Orthopedics in the Master`s Degree of Medicine of ICBAS – School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of University of Porto (UP) and Head of Department of Orthopedics of Santo António University Hospital Center, Porto, Portugal.
He graduated as Medical Doctor at UP in 1984, got a Board Certificate in Orthopedics in 1993 and obtained his PhD in 2000 with the Thesis” Phase Measuring Profilometry of the Trunk in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis”.
His main interests in Clinics and Research are Spine Pathology, Arthroplasty, Infection, Tumors, Orthobiologics, Tissue Engineering and Robotics.
António Oliveira is Past-President of Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SPOT) and Member of International Research Society of Spinal Deformities (IRSSD).