Introduction
Introduction
The North Lisbon University Hospital Center (CHULN) is one of the main hospitals of the Portuguese National Health Service (SNS), and results from the merge of two important public University Hospitals, Santa Maria Hospital and Pulido Valente Hospital.
CHULN has considerable assets in human resources, applied technologies and in accumulated know-how along with the support it renders to the populations from its area of direct influence, and with the guarantee of a differentiated referencial response in multiple clinical areas, both national and internationally, including in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (the “PALOP”).
By the end of 2020, the North Lisbon University Hospital Center had a total of 6.538 professionals, with over 1400 medical doctors, distributed across 11 Clinical Departments and 42 Clinical Units.
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Heart and Vessels Cardiology Cardio-thoracic Surgery Vascular Surgery General Surgery Surgical Specialities Otorhinolaringology Ophthalmology Plastic Surgery Stomatology Orthopedy Urology |
Medical Specialities Dermatology Infeccious Diseases Endocrinology Gastroenterology Immuno-allergology Medicine Nephrology Rheumatology Compl. Diag. and Therapeutics Histopathology Radiology Neurological radiology Immuno-hemotherapy Physical Med. & Rehabilitation Laboratory Medicine |
Neurosciences & Mental Health Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry & Mental Health Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reprod. Medicine Obstetrics Gynecology Oncology Hematology Oncology Radiotherapy |
Pediatrics Pediatric Surgery Genetics Pediatric Cardiology Neonatology Pediatrics Pediatric Psychiatry Thorax Pneumology Thoracic Surgery Emergency & Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Medicine Central Emergency |
Contacts
Contact Details
Innovation Department
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Hospital Administration
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Clinical Investigation Centre
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Activity 2020
Activity 2020
| 643.223 appointments |
1.002 hospital beds |
21.676 surgical procedures |
172.371 emergency admissions |
77.561 sessions in day care |
6.9 million medical exams |
2.303 deliveries |
3 million records of patient data |
| 2.542 appointments per day |
31.339 inpatients |
59% ambulatorization of elective procedures |
471 admissions per day |
15.046 patients treated in day care sessions |
Lisbon Medical Academic Centre (CAML)
Lisbon Medical Academic Centre (CAML)
The LMCA integrates the three pillars of the Healthcare Innovation triangle, CHULN, iMM and the Faculty of Medicine.
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) is an institution of higher education integrated in the Classical University of Lisbon.
The Institute of Molecular Medicine (iMM) is considered one of the leading institutes of biomedical research in the country. It is associated to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
CAML’s differentiated structure allows for the promotion and development of the academic dimension and qualification of clinical practice, the modernization and development of research, medical education and innovation of the health sciences in pre- and post-graduation.
National Reference Center
National Reference Centers
The Ministry of Health acknowledged the following national reference centres at CHULN:
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Transplantation |
Adults renal transplantation |
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Oncology |
Pediatric Oncology – CNS cancer |
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Rare Diseases |
Familiar paramyloidosis |
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Medical and Surgical Area |
Structural intervention Cardiology |
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Procedures |
ECMO |
European Reference Networks
European Reference Networks
European Reference Networks (ERNs) involve more than 900 highly specialised health care teams, located in more than 300 hospitals in 26 European countries. The main mission of the ERNs is to help patients with rare or low-prevalence complex diseases. CHULN is an active member of the following ERNs. In addition, at the European level CHLUN is also an Associate Partner of InnoSTARS, EIT Health.
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Pediatrics |
Hereditary Metabolic Disorders – MetabERN |
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Neurosciences |
Rare craniofacial anomalies and ENT disorders – ERN CRANIO |
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Oncology |
Adult Oncology - esophageal cancer |
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Cardiology |
Structural intervention Cardiology |
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Hematology |
Graft versus host disease after hematopoietic progenitor |
| Reumatology and Bone Met. |
Connective tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases – ERN ReCONNET |
Clinical Investigation
Clinical Investigation Centre of Lisbon's Academic Medical Centre - CIC-CAML is a Clinical Research Center which aims to centralize all the clinical research management and activities in a recent infrastructure dedicated exclusively to the development and support of clinical trials.
As a Clinical Research Center (CRC), CIC-CAML has dedicated facilities to perform clinical research according to ICH-GCP Guidelines providing to the clinical investigators the necessary infrastructure and services for the support and conduct of high quality clinical trials, from Phase I to IV. CIC-CAML as an infrastructure devoted to centralize clinical research support with a management team including study coordinators and study-nurse staff, allowing enrolment of patients.
At the moment we are involved in more than 180 clinical trials (3 are phase I) and had more than 150 patients included in clinical trials in different therapeutic areas such as: Oncology, Rheumatology, Neurology and Pediatrics. We also conduct observational studies and some of these projects are investigator-initiated studies.
