Tribute to Professor Andrew J. Lees

Abstract

Professor Andrew John Lees, from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, a neurological hospital in Queen Square, London, UK, has contributed in a stupendous way to the development of the field of movement disorders in Brazil, with a constant and intense participation in numerous congresses and scientific meetings of this specialty since 1983.

Movement Disorders in Brazil: the seminal contributions of Luiz Augusto Franco de Andrade and Egberto Reis Barbosa

“…Movement Disorders, among the different sub-specialties of Neurology, has grown exponentially worldwide in recent years 1,2 . The interest in movement disorders (previously defined as disorders of the extrapyramidal system) emerged in Brazil through the research of Antonio Austregésilo in Rio de Janeiro 3,4 , and increased by the continuous scientific support of Andrew Lees, mainly regarding events of continuing education 5,6 . Luiz Augusto Franco de Andrade (at that time, at the Escola Paulista de Medicina [EPM], currently the Universidade Federal de São Paulo) and Egberto Reis Barbosa (Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo) played a crucial role in the development and advance of studies on this topic in Brazil.…”