Elizio Jr. Balde Ferreira, MD, Physician Partner

Elizio Jr Balde Ferreira was born in Bissau in 1991. He completed his secondary education at the Bétel Adventist school in Bissau in 2008.  He began his career in law in Bissau, then traveled to Venezuela in 2010, where he found his love of medicine, beginning studies the same year. Elizio obtained his general medical degree in 2016 with a Summa Cum Laude diploma, a maximum honor. In 2017, he began his specialty training in Obstetrics & Gynecology, obtaining his specialist title in 2021. Since then, he has taught as Faculty of Medicine and worked as part of the staff at the central hospital of São Felipe in Venezuela. In 2021 he returned to Bissau, where he currently works in the maternity ward of the Simão Mendes National Hospital as Director of OB/Gynecology service, as well as a coordinator at the Faculty of Medicine at Jean Piaget University where among his many responsibilities he acts as part of the Presidency of the National Medical Board.

Contact details

Email: elizio@dossantosfoundation.org