Caio Mansano de Oliveira

Caio Mansano de Oliveira is currently a fourth year undergraduate at University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP). Since he decided to follow the medical career he devoted totally to his studies and in the year 2007 was able to pass the most difficult university admission test in Brazil. His remarkable position can be illustrated with the fact that he was the 21^st in the ranking, considering the competitiveness figures of approximately 300.000 candidates for 185 vacancies.

Being a brilliant student naturally, he kept his outstanding performance through the university course, having never failed or retaken a single examination. Besides, he has constantly expressed the interest of getting involved in a wide range of extracurricular activities, above all in the surgical field. Some of the extracurricular activities mentioned include the participation in surgical clubs, such as Cardio-Thoracic, Traumatology, Intensive-Care, Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery and Urology, having also performed very well as a monitor of the subject of surgical techniques for third-year students. Nevertheless, he acts as a surgical assistant and practises dissections.

In the scientific research field, he has being developing culture of mesenchymal cells for repopulation of acellular matrix to be placed on patients suffering from complex injuries and serious burn cases. Except his academic involvement, he has been a member of the water polo team of FMUSP since 2007, being a director of this sport in the years of 2007 and 2008.

During the year of 2011, having the opportunity of working with Prof. Hiep Nguyen at the Children’s Hospital in Harvard, one of the most emblematic universities in the world, he expects to familiarize with new research techniques and the highest levels of technology in urology, such as a robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery and molecular imaging.