Schedule

Morning Session October 4th 2025

• 8:25 – 8:55 AM — Registration & Check-In
• 8:55 – 9:10 AM — Welcome & Introduction
• 9:10 – 9:25 AM — Research Presentation 1: Challenges of Conducting Clinical Science Research in CV — Dr. Pamela Borges
• 9:25 – 9:40 AM — Research Presentation 2: Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD and team
• 9:40 – 9:55 AM — Research Presentation 3: Challenges of performing basic science research in CV – Jay Brito Querido, PhD
• 9:55 – 10:10 AM — Q&A Session for Research Presentations
• 10:10 – 10:40 AM — Keynote Address: Decolonization of Global Health Systems — Dr. Oyere Onuma
• 10:40 – 11:10 AM — Guest Speaker:Healing from Colonization Trauma — Dr. Adriano Cabral
• 11:10 – 11:25 AM — Panel: Dr. Oyere & Dr. Cabral (Moderator: Dr. Ana Sophia Lopes Johnson)
• 11:25 – 12:10 PM — Surgical Panel: Impact of CVAMS on Surgical Care/Education in Cabo Verde — Drs. Timothy Johnson, Roberto Pineda, Robert Teixeira, Rui P. Fernandes (Moderator: Dr. Gil Freitas)

• 12:10 – 12:40 PM — Lunch Break

• 12:40 – 1:10 PM — Evolution of Nursing Care in Cabo Verde — Elga Mirta Furtado Barreto de Carvalho & Vera Monteiro
• 1:10 – 1:40 PM — Medical School’s Role in Addressing Health Care Workforce — Dr. Antonieta Martins
• 1:40 – 1:55 PM — Questions for CV Panel (Moderator: Dr. Patrice Alves)
• 1:55 – 2:40 PM — Panel on Women’s Health — Drs. Leny Dias, Veronica Pimentel, Susan Weinberg, Doreen DeFaria Yeh (Moderator: Lyla Blake)
• 2:40 – 3:10 PM — Health Equity and Maternal Health: Fireside Chat with Manuel Lopes and Samantha DeAndrade, MD.
  
• 3:10 – 3:25 PM — Break
• 3:25 – 3:55 PM — Special Address: Future of Health Care in Cabo Verde — George Figueiredo, MD
• 3:55 – 4:10 PM — Audience Q&A with the Minister
• 4:10 – 4:40 PM — Celebrating 5 Years of CVAMS — Drs. Madelaine Tully & Patricia Andrade
• 4:40 – 5:00 PM — Closing Remarks & Departure

Faculties

  Pamela Borges, PhD — Biomedical scientist and cancer researcher at Hospital Universitário Agostinho Neto (Praia); focuses on breast cancer genetics and diagnostics. 

  Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD — Cardiologist; Co-Director, Cardiovascular Disease & Pregnancy Program; Director, Cardiology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 

  Jay Brito Querido, PhD — Assistant Professor (UMich Medical School) and Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute; structural biologist using cryo-EM to study translation initiation.  

  Oyere Onuma, MD, MSc — Cardiologist; Founding Director, Global Cardiovascular Health Program, MGH; Yale MD, Harvard Chan MSc; 

  Adriano Cabral, MEd, CAGS — Executive Director, Inclusion Family Counseling Center (Brockton/New Bedford); leads culturally responsive mental-health services for immigrant communities.  

  Ana Sofia Lopes Johnson, MD — Family physician; past President, Association of Black Women Physicians; member, Tufts School of Medicine Board of Advisors; advocate for health equity.  

  Timothy S. Johnson, MD — Orthopaedic surgeon (sports medicine, shoulder/elbow); Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins; longtime MLB team physician (Baltimore Orioles).  

  Roberto Pineda II, MD — Ophthalmologist, Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard; cornea, cataract & refractive surgery;

  Robert M. Teixeira, MD — Plastic & reconstructive surgeon (hand/upper extremity), Assistant Professor, University of Utah Health; microsurgery and peripheral nerve surgery.  

  Rui P. Fernandes, DMD, MD, FACS — Oral & maxillofacial surgeon; Professor of Surgery, University of Florida–Jacksonville; head & neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction. 

  Gil S. Freitas, MD — General/bariatric surgeon, UMass Memorial Medical Center; Tufts University School of Medicine graduate.  

  Elga Mirta Furtado Barreto de Carvalho, PhD — Nurse and educator; doctoral research (2022) at Uni-CV’s FCT; faculty/graduate studies contributor.  

  Vera Monteiro — Nurse executive; Superintendent Nurse (Board member) at Hospital Dr. Baptista de Sousa, São Vicente.  

  Antonieta Martins, MD — Physician and medical educator; helped establish/coordinate Uni-CV’s Faculty of Medicine and support specialty training in Cabo Verde. 

  Patrice J. Alves, MD — Family physician and health-system leader; extensive global and mission experience. 

  Leny Dias, MD — Physician-scientist (Internal Medicine); clinical fellow and educator with Harvard-affiliated institutions.  

  Veronica Maria Pimentel, MD, MS, FACOG — Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist, Trinity Health of New England; UConn/Quinnipiac faculty; advocate and ACOG podcast host.

   Susan Weinberg, MD, FACR — Board-certified diagnostic radiologist; Fellow of the American College of Radiology; 

  Lyla Blake, MD, MPH — Physician at Community Health Center of Cape Cod; primary care and community health.  

  Manuel Lopes – President and Chief Executive Officer of Fallon Health.

  Jorge Figueiredo, MD — Minister of Health, Cabo Verde (since Feb 7, 2025); physician with MSc in Health Systems Development; former national health director.

  Madelaine Tully, MD — Family physician, Progressive Community Health Centers, Milwaukee; 2019 “Health Care Hero”
honoree.

 Patricia Andrade, MD, FACS — General & breast surgeon; Chief of Surgery, Morton Hospital (MA); Dartmouth/Brown Medical graduate;

 Julio Teixeira

 Paulo R Pina