Duarte Nuno Vieira, Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) on 28 March. Maria Teresa Soler Roch, Professor of Financial Law at the University of Alicante, also received this honour. The ceremony took place in the Great Hall of the Colexio de Fonseca.
In his speech, Ángel María Carracedo Álvarez, Duarte Nuno Vieira's laudator, praised the full professor for pioneering and establishing a new discipline within forensic medicine: Humanitarian Forensic Medicine, which aims to alleviate human suffering and uphold the dignity of all victims of armed conflicts and disasters.
Duarte Nuno Vieira, a leading global authority in forensic medicine, human rights protection, bodily injury assessment, and forensic pathology, is President of the Portuguese National Academy of Medicine, President of the Ibero-American Network of Forensic Sciences, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Vice-President of the European Confederation of Experts on Evaluation and Repair of Bodily Injury (CEDEROC), and a former President of the International Academy of Legal Medicine. Professor Vieira has a long-standing collaboration with the USC Institute of Forensic Medicine.
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English translation: Diana Taborda [DCM-UC]