Marco Aurelio Pinho de Oliveira

Dr. Marco Oliveira is Director of the Division of Endoscopic Surgery at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Full Professor/Chair of the Department of Gynecology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He earned his MD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), completed a fellowship in Abdominal Surgery at Clementino Fraga Filho Hospital, and obtained his PhD in Medicine from UERJ in 2004. An AAGL member since 1995, Dr. Oliveira has played a major leadership role in gynecologic endoscopy in Brazil and Latin America, including Past President of the Brazilian Society of Gynecologic Endoscopy and Endometriosis (SOBENGE). He organized the 2006 AAGL-sponsored congress in Brazil (700+ attendees, 25 international speakers) and served as President of the Scientific Program for the 2nd AAGL International Meeting in São Paulo (2008). A pioneer in surgical education, he established one of Brazil's first continuing endoscopic skills courses (1996) an