Dr. Luíza Mirpuri, Head of Medical Research at Mirpuri Foundation

Dr. Luíza Mirpuri graduated from Portuguese Medical School in 1994. She specialized in Otorhinolaryngology and Cervical Head and Neck Cancer.

She trained as a General Practitioner and has been practicing for many years in the Portuguese National Health system, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, and Air-ambulance.
She is board-certified in Aeronautical Medicine and she is the Head of the Medical Department of Hi Fly.

Dr. Luiza is an instructor of First-Aid and Human Factors for Flight Crew in the aviation field. She also has expertise in chemicals and human health.

Her interests also include sailing, and research on Human factors that affect performance in off-shore athletes.

At the Mirpuri Foundation she is responsible for promoting scientific research on plastics and its effects on human health. Her great passion is to bring healing to people suffering from environmental contamination, raising awareness and finding healthy perceptions of our chemical lives.