Carlos Vasconcelos
- Born 27/03/52, Portugal
- 1976 – MD by Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- 1987 – Internal Medicine Specialist, with clinical practice in the field of Clinical Immunology: autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency’s
- 1992, worked 3 months with Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld in the TelAviv University in the areas of immunology and rheumatology
- Coordinator of the Hospital Infection Control Committee of HGSA since 1994
- Member of the National Committee against AIDS between 1992 – 2000 and from 2002
- Since 1986 teacher, and from 2002 invited Associate Professor of Medicine, of the Medical School Instituto Biomédicas Abel Salazar / Hospital Santo António
- Member of the HSA professional team collaborating in a project to physicians post graduated formation in Guiné-Bissau 1997 - 2005
- Director of the HSA Ambulatory Department between 2000-2002
- 2002 - Chefe de Serviço de Medicina Interna
- 2004 - Head of the Unidade de Imunologia Clínica (Clinical Immunology Unit) of Hospital Santo António, Centro Hospitalar do Porto
- 2007 – Ph.D with the thesis “Epidemiology of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the north of Portugal”.
- Coordinator of the regional group for infection control of North Regional Administration 2007-2009
- Member of the group for the study of autoimmune diseases (NEDAI) of the Portuguese Internal Medicine Society
- Member of Euro-Lupus; contributor to the euro-lupus nephritis trials
- Member of Euro-Phospholipid
- Consultant of the Portuguese Association for patients with Lupus
- Member of the international Lupus Nephritis Terminology Advisory Group
- Member of the American College of Rheumatology since 1992
- Member of the Portuguese Immunology Society since 1984
- Member of the Portuguese Internal Medicine Society since 1985
- Member of SidaNet
- member of the steering committee of BIOLUPUS
- Member of the International Advisory Board of Autoimmunet / Anales de Autoimunidad
- reviewer of LUPUS and RHEUMATOLOGY
- Author and co-author of several international publications
