CURRICULUM VITAE

No 3476, edificio 2 piso 4, Ava Julius Nyerere, Maputo, Moçambique

Mobile: (+258 86400193) (+258-823221820)

Email: igorvaz@hotmail.com

Occupation

Founder and CEO of Focus Fistula Associastion of Mozambique 2016-2021

Head of Urology Department in Maputo Central Hospital (1997-2018)

Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane 1998-2018.

Main activities and responsibilities

Consultant for Fistula surgery for: Focus Fistula Engender Health, UNFPA, Angola Government, Guine Bissau,

Head of Surgery Departement 2002- 2010, In Maputo Central Hospital and Faculdade de Medicina UEM,

General Manager of Private - Clinic Cruz Azul 2005-2016,

General Director Hospital Rural Chicuque 1986-1989; General Director Vilankulo Rural Hospital 1982-1986.

Name and address of employer

Focus Fistula Mozambique, Ava Jose Mateus nº 163 , Maputo

Maputo Central Hospital e Faculdade de Medicina de UEM, Maputo Ava Agostinho Neto,

Clinica Cruz Azul, Maputo, Ava Karl Marx.410 r/c

Title of qualification awarded

FCS SURGERY, general Surgeon, Pelvic Reconstructive Surgeon

COSECSA – International member of Board of examiner´s,( College of surgeons of East, Central, and Southern África);

- President of ALU ( Urological Lusofone Association),

- Tresure of PAUSA( Pan African Urological Surgeons Association),

Rep of ISOFS in Southern African ( International Surgeons of Fistula Surgeons)

Member of APU, SIU, EUA, AUA, ALAPP,

Consultant in Hospital Central Maputo/ MISAU e Auxi. Prof. in Faculdade de Medicina da UEM

Title of qualification awarded

Urology (PORTUGAL Faro, Oporto, Lisbone, SOUTH AFRICA,Cape Town, MOZAMBIQUE, Maputo) 1995-2005

FCS Surgery, COSECSA 1995

General Surgery (Maputo) (1987-1991)

Licenciatura em Medicina MD, by Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane 1975-1980

Intensive Care and Anesthesy Pitie & Salpitrié 1991 Paris

Gastro enterology and endoscopy Hospital Foche and Pitie Salpitrié, Paris 1993

Uretroplasty in JHB Hospital 2002

Urology - Hospital Faro, IPO Lisboa, Sto Antonio Porto, Portugal; Groothsure Hospital, UCT Cape Town, Maputo Central Hospital

Organisation providing education and training

MD, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, e Faculdade de Medicina do Porto

General Surgeon, Ordem M. Moçambique

Urologist, p Ordem M. Moçambique, e p Ordem Medicos Portuguesa

Consultant and Aux. Prof. at Fac. of Medicine at UEM

HCM Hospital Central Maputo - Reconstructive surgery on pelvic floor, strictures and oncology.

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Faculdade de Medicina.

Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Portugal

Groot Schure Hospital, UCT Cape Town, RSA

Personal skills, Main activities and competences

Reconstructive surgery

First trainnig in Obstetric Fistulas in 1986 - Chicuque Inhambane

Etiophia – Hammling Fistula Hospital 2003

In Country fistulas Camps since 1991-2016

Maputo Central Hospital

Obstetric fistulas from simple to the complex and complicated up to deamed “incurable” Fistulas

Vesico vaginal Fistulas, ureteric vaginal fistulas, vesico-uterine fistulas, cervico-uterine-vaginal fistulas, enteric-vaginal fistulas.

Technics developed for the deamed “incurables” Slinks, urethral reconstructions, bladder neck reconstruction, neo-urethras from tanagho, augmentations cistoplasty, neobladder’s, Mitrofanof continence, Sigmoid neoblader, rectal neoblader, diversion’s.

Neovagina from skin flaps,blader, peritoneum, seromuscular all of the Uterus, bowel, Vaginal, abdominal and combine aproach for the complex cases.

Congenital malformations, DSD, Hipospadias, epispadias, Rokitansky-M sindrome, Trouth Hemafrodites, male to women and women to male, change in ambigous sex or DSD. Urethral-vaginal sinus

Congenital agenesia of the balder, congenital agenesia of the female urethra, female epispadia

Uro-rectal fstulas in male patients neo-borns, children’s, and adults.

Complete Pelvic reconstruction on very complicated Obstetric Fistulas and Pelvic exantrations on bladder or colo-rectal cancer.

Urethral stricture, male and female.

Abdominal and Urological Oncology,

General Urology, endo-urology

Organisational Skills and Competences

General Director e/ or clinical Director of:

H. Rural Vilankulos (1982-86), H.R Chicuque1986-88), servico de cirurgia de HCM ( 93-95), Servico de Urologia do HCM 1997-2014), Head of Surgery Department HCM ( 2000-2010), Departamento de Cirurgia da Faculdade de Medicina da UEM(2000-1012), head of Urology department (1989-2016).

General Manager of Private Clinica Cruz Azul 2005-2016

Registration by

Urologist by Ordem dos Medicos de Moçambique n 379, Ordem dos Medicos Portuguesa n 39594

Member of Societies

COSECSA; APU Associacao Portuguesa de Urologia, ALU Associação Lusofuna de Urologia, PAUSA Pan African urological surgeons Association, SIU Societé International de Urology, EAU - European Association Urological, COSECSA Colege of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa, LCC luta contra o cancro, IUGA International Uroginecological Association, ISOFS International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons, AMOG Associação Mocambicana de Ginecologia e Obstetricia. IVUmed focal point for Fistulas, MIPS Mediteranen Incontinence Society, CAU Confederation Americana de Urologia

Congress participation and invited lectur

International annual Reconstructiv Surgery workshop, Maputo, Mozambique (annual 2002-2016)

(Pediatric Urology suported by IVU Med, Urethral Strictures, Obstetric Fistulas)

SIU - Paris 2007, Cape Town South Africa, Istambul Turky, Marrakesh Marrocos, Fukuohua Japan 13, Glasgow 14, Buenos Aires 16

AUA - Joint section Pausa –AUA, San Francisco, Washington DC, in Atlanta, USA.

EAU - Madrid, Berlim, Milan,

APU - Portugal Porto, ALgarve, Braga

ISOFS - Senegal, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ghana

IUGA - Lisbon , Maputo, Cape Town 2012, 2016

FIGO - Rome, Vancouver

SBU - Rio de Janeiro, Blumenau, Salvador da Baia

ISICON - Puna India.

International workshops and fistula training programs - Maputo Mozambique 13, Angola- 4, Nigeria (Jos, Sokoto), Ghana, Uganda, Palermo Italy.

UNFPA - fistula Programs, Mozambique, Angola, Guine Bissau

SAUA - South Africa Urology Association, Cape Town, Durban, JHB

Fistula Campains in Rural Hospitals in Mozambique

MIPS - Palermo Italy

SIGO - Italy Verona 2016

Congresso Medico - Luanda Angola

Maternidade Lucrecia Paim, Luanda Angola

AMOG - Maputo

IVUmed - Maputo

8th European Congress on Tropical Medicine & International Health (ECTMIH 2013)

10 - 13 September 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

Invited lectur programs

USA

Seatlle Children’s Hospital, Seatlle, USA

George Washington University, Seatlle, USA

Beaumont Hospital, Detroit,USA

Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Detroit Receaving Hospital,USA

Ghana

Military Hospital, Acra

Workshop in complex fistula surgery

Nigeria

Missionary Hospital In Jhos, Nigeria

Workshop in complex fistula surgery

University of SOKOTO,... Nigeria, Workshop in reconstructiv surgery

Angola, University / Hospital Americo Boavida, Maternidade Lucrecia Paim, Luanda Angola

4 workshops in very complexes fistulas surgery from 2013-2016

Uganda Kampala ISOFS lecture on complex Fistulas surgery, and Neovagina in VVF

Senegal, URODAK Dakar, Senegal, workshop in complex fistula surgery

ISOFS – Abuja

Workshop on “incurables fistulas“ in IBADAN University Medical College.

Master class on complex fistulas (SIU Glasgow 14)

Lecture PAUSA - SIU in Glasgow

Guine Bissau, 3 camps for training and treatment of VVF

Workshop in VVF

Italy Palermo,

Mexico City

ISOFS

PAUSA

SIU

APU

International workshops organized in Maputo since 2003 organized 17 international workshops, with IVUmed, ISOFS, ALU, APU,

Invited surgeon for very complexes cases and those deemed “incurable”

Angola, Nigeria, Guine Bissau, Senegal, Ghana, Congo DRC, Italy, Mexico, Portugal

As a Focus Fistula Surgeon have performed in the last 3 years more than 400 fistula surgeries, 100 lectures to surgeons, urologists , Ob&Gy, Tec. Of surgery, nurses and other medical staf, lectures to the civil society, Tv lectures on VVF, radio broadcasting,

Have performed meetings and advocacy at the MoH.

FUNDADOR DA FOCUS FÍSTULA

BEXIGA

URETRA

Próstata

Testículos e epidídimos

UROGINECOLOGIA

CIRURGIA UROLÓGICA

CIRURGIA GERAL

CIRURGIA UROGINECOLÓGICA