Edson Oliveira licenciou-se na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (FMUL) em 2007. Durante o curso desenvolveu vários projectos de investigação nas áreas da Neuroanatomia e da Medicina Aeroespacial, sendo actualmente Assistente de Neurocirurgia e Medicina Aeroespacial.
Concluiu a especialidade de Neurocirurgia no Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Norte em 2016. Foi Presidente do Conselho Nacional do Internato Médico (2015–2017) e membro da Direcção da Ordem dos Médicos (2017–2019).
É fundador e gestor de projecto do Centro de Estudos de Medicina Aeroespacial, tendo integrado a equipa que criou, em Portugal, a primeira unidade curricular de Medicina Aeroespacial em pré-graduação, leccionada desde 2020 na FMUL em parceria com a Academia da Força Aérea. Desenvolve actualmente um doutoramento sobre a SANS (Síndrome Neuro-Ocular Associada a Voos Espaciais), focado nos efeitos da microgravidade na pressão intracraniana.
É membro do Conselho Médico da Agência Espacial Europeia e lidera o Comité de Voos Espaciais Comerciais da Aerospace Medical Association. É também professor convidado na International Space University, membro do Space & Extreme Environment Research Center da Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (Brasil) e membro activo da Space Surgery Association.
Edson Oliveira graduated from the Lisbon School of Medicine of the University of Lisbon in 2007. As a student during Medical School, he developed several research projects in the field of Neuroanatomy and Aerospace Medicine and he’s currently an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Aerospace Medicine.
He finished the Neurosurgery residency program of the North Lisbon University Hospital Center in 2016. He was elected President of the Portuguese Residents National Council between 2015-2017 and a member of the Executive Committee of the Portuguese Medical Association between 2017-2019.
Founder and Project Manager of the Center for Aerospace Medicine Studies, he was part of the team that settled in Portugal the first pre-graduated subject of Aerospace Medicine in the Lisbon School of Medicine, running since 2020 in a joint venture with the Portuguese Air Force Academy. He’s developing a PhD project related to SANS (Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome) focusing on the effects of microgravity in intracranial pressure.
Currently he’s an appointed member of the European Space Agency Medical Board and Team Leader of the Commercial Spaceflight Committee in the Aerospace Medical Association. He’s an invited lecturer at the International Space University, member of the Space & Extreme Environment Research Center of the Health Sciences Federal University of Porto Alegre (Brazil) and an active member of the Space Surgery Association.
