José Miguel Ribeiro de Castro Guimarães (born 22 January 1962) is a Portuguese

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and

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. He has a degree in

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from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and a specialist in

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(since 1997) at Centro Hospitalar São João (CHSJ). He has been a member of the transplant team at Hospital de S. João since 1994, having participated in more than 400 kidney transplant surgeries. In 2005, he obtained the Competence in Health Services Management from the

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. He organized more than 30 scientific and professional meetings and as a researcher published more than a hundred research works in national and international journals in the field of

. He was president of the Northern Regional Council of the Order of Physicians (2011-2017). He was president of the Order of Physicians, between 2017 and 2023. In January 2024, he was announced as candidate number one, on Democratic Alliance's Porto list for the 2024 legislative elections.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guimaraes, Miguel 1962 births Living people Independent politicians in Portugal Members of the 16th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) Portuguese politicians