Leonardo de Oliveira Consolim, MD

Director, Educational Programs
House of Care, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dr. Leonardo Consolim is an attending physician in Nucleo Avançado de Cuidados Especiais, Sao Paulo Cancer Institute. He works providing palliative care for end of life cancer patients in the in-patient advanced unit. He also is committed with educational support in palliative care for multidisciplinary teams. Dr. Leonardo is Director of Education of House of Care, a non-profit organization, for teaching and practice in palliative care. He works in a team that has organized courses, congress and workshops about palliative care in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Other Appointments

Attending Physician, Advanced Nucleus of Special Needs, Sao Paulo Cancer Institute, Brazil
Director of Education, House of Care, non-profit organization for teaching and practicing in palliative care
Member, Brazilian Academy of Palliative Care

Education / Honors

Graduate, International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative, The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, San Diego, CA, and OhioHealth, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2012-2014
Coordinator of Multi-professional Palliative Care Annual Course of House of Care, 2011
Member of Scientific Commission of II Brazilian Palliative Care Congress, 2011
International Visitor Scholar, Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, 2010
Pos-graduate training in Geriatrics, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 2004
Residence in Internal Medicine, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 2002-2003
Medical Degree, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, 2001

Key Publications

Consolim LO, co-author. Brazilian Consensus of Fatigue, Brazilian Palliative Care Magazine, 2010, 3 (2) supplement 1
Consolim LO, co-author. Brazilian Consensus of Opioid Induced Bowel Constipation, Brazilian Palliative Care Magazine, 2009, 2 (3) Supplement 1
Sorato D, Consolim LO, Nascimento MSA, Santos R, Associated Factors in presence of pain in patients attended in a palliative care out-patient clinic of a Oncologic Center, Barretos, Brazil. Brazilian Congress of Pain – SIMBIDOR. 2009

Book Chapters

Consolim, LO. Manual of Palliative Care of National Academy of Palliative Care. The Doctor’s Work in Palliative Care Team. Edited by National Academy of Palliative Care. Brazil. 2009
Faria EF, Seabra D, Machado RD. Uro-Oncology: Doubts and Controversies. Consolim LO Chapter: Palliative Care in Urology. Edit Novo Conceito-Saude, 2009

Key Presentations

The hospice care in the end of life of cancer patients, II Brazilian Palliative Care Congress, 2011
How to prepare yourself to die, V Congress of Science and Spirit, 2011
A multidisciplinary approach in Palliative Care, 3th Workshop Brazil-Canada in Palliative Care, 2010