Staff Physician, General Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Institute
Years of Experience
28Dr. Francisco A Lobo, MD, is a Staff Physician and the Director of Research in the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He also serves as a Staff Consultant Physician of General Anesthesiology and Neuroanesthesia.
Prior to joining CCAD, Dr. Lobo served as Consultant at the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal. He has also held the positions of Visiting Professor and Instructor of Anesthesia at the Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, US, Senior Consultant and member of Research Committee at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar and Locum Senior Consultant at Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
Dr. Lobo received his medical degree from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Porto University, Porto, Portugal and completed his Residency in Anesthesiology at the Hospital Geral de Santo Antonio/Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Portugal.
He started to be involved in Clinical Neurosciences applied to Anesthesiology (anesthesia for neurosurgery, neurocritical care, brain monitoring and anesthetic neuropharmacology) during his educational program. He has a special interest in anesthesia for awake and functional neurosurgery, intraoperative electroencephalogram and cerebral oximetry monitoring and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of Intravenous Anesthetic drugs and Multimodal General Anesthesia.
Dr. Francisco Lobo has authored and published several studies, articles amd book chapters in the field of Neuroanesthesia, brain monitoring and Anesthetic Neuropharmacology. He also has vast experience as a lecturer at international meetings and conferences and serving in various scientific societies committees.
Dr. Lobo resides in Abu Dhabi with his family (including 7 cats) and enjoys watching football (he is a strong supporter of Benfica of Lisbon!). He also likes to read (he loves everything about Beat Generation poets and novelists) and to travel to his beloved city of Porto.
Hospital Geral de Santo António/Centro Hospitalar e Universtário do Porto, Porto, Portugal (Resident/Consultant, Fellowship in Neurocritical Care and Neuroanesthesia)
AZVU – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland (Fellowship, Pediatric Anesthesia)
Hospital Geral de Santo António/Centro Hospitalar e Universtário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Hospital de S. Marcos, Braga, Portugal (Internship with rotations in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatrics, OB-Gynecology and Community and Family Medicine)
AZVU – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland (Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology)
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar, Porto University, Porto, Portugal (Medical Student)
Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal (Locum Senior Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology)
Hamad Medical Corporation – Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar (Senior Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology, ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Research Committee)
SUNY, Brooklyn, New York, USA (Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical center)
Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA (Visiting Professor and Instructor of Anesthesia, Division of Neuroanesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology)
Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto (Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine)
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