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Teresa Alves-da-silva

Teresa Alves-da-silva MD

Orthopedics
Alcabideche, Lisbon, Portugal

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Dr. Orlando Alves da Silva is based in Lisbon, where he directs a busy multidisciplinary clinic and provides specialist training to medical professionals from all over the world. After graduating in Medicine from the University of Coimbra, Portugal in 1971, he specialized in Ophthalmology at the University Hospital St Maria, Lisbon. From 1977-2005 she was Director of Strabismus at the University Hospital St. Maria. There she collaborated with Dr. Martins da Cunha, Director of Rehabilitation Medicine on Active Prisms for the management of Proprioception Dysfunction Syndrome/ Postural Deficiency Syndrome.

Dr. da Silva was the Portuguese lead for the European project on infant video fraction screening programs, coordinated by professor Janette Atkinson, and a founding member and first president of the Portuguese Group of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. She was a member of ESA and has presented his group’s research at numerous international conferences as a keynote speaker.
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