Albuquerque, Andreia

Andreia Albuquerque MD PhD is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a special interest on early detection and anal cancer prevention.

She has developed an Anal Neoplasia Clinic in Portugal (Porto) and also worked as a Researcher and Honorary Consultant at the Homerton Anal Neoplasia Service (London) and as a Senior Fellow and Locum Consultant at St. James’s University Hospital (Leeds). She currently works in Porto, Portugal.

In 2019, she completed a PhD on anal precancerous lesions, focusing on biomarkers and epidemiology. She has more than 70 papers published in peer-review journals, including as first author in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, British Journal of Cancer and the International Journal of Cancer.

She serves as an Editorial Board member of the journal BMC Gastroenterology and as an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Medical Research.

She was an International Anal Neoplasia Society (IANS) Board of Directors member and was a Co-chair of the IANS Spanish-Portuguese Task Force. She is a Board member of the International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS), a member of IPVS Early Career Working Group and a member of IPVS Social Media Task Force.