João-Maria Nabais is a Portuguese doctor and writer, noted as an expert in the History of Medicine, History of Sephardic medical doctors and for his Poetry.
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Nabais graduated in medicine and surgery from the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Lisbon in 1974. He works as a Hospital Assistant in Paediatrics and takes a post as a member of the Department of Child Psychiatry in Barreiro.[1]
The scientific interests of Nabais are: History of Health Sciences, History of Medicine, Medical Literature and Writers. Nabais has published more than a two hundred articles and essays.
He has made numerous presentations on the History of Medicine and Judaism, and has presented papers at national and international meetings.[2]
He has been distinguished in literary contests: António Patrício* Poetry Awards in 1996, 2002 and 2006 by the Portuguese Society of Writers and Artistic Doctors, for the books Poemas, Sons de Urbanidade and O Lugar e o Mito. He received the Merit Cultural Award of the Association of Medical Writers and Journalists of Bucharest, Romania in 2004. He was awarded the Moldarte Award in painting in 1987.
-* António Patrício (1878–1930) was born in Oporto and dies in Macau. He's a well-known Portuguese medical doctor and playwright; -** with a CD.