On an Academic Journey from the Azores to Lake Léman
Alexandre Gouveia has a particular interest in quality and patient safety, in postgraduate teaching, and in clinical research within the Department of Ambulatory Care at Unisanté (University of Lausanne, Switzerland).
Alexandre was appointed senior physician in 2021 and took on the responsibility of the Polyclinic of General Practice. In 2022, he began part-time training in medical education at Harvard University (Master of Medical Sciences in Medical Education). In 2023, he earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Lausanne, focusing on potentially avoidable hospitalizations in Switzerland.
After obtaining his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon in 2004 and completing his specialization in General Practice and Family Medicine in 2009, Alexandre Gouveia worked as a primary care physician in a group practice (Viana do Castelo, Portugal) for five years, and as a lecturer in Community Health at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal).
In 2014, he began his medical career in Switzerland as a resident physician at the University Medical Polyclinic in Lausanne and was appointed deputy chief resident in 2015. After earning a CAS in Clinical Research in 2017, he worked for two years in the Internal Medicine Department at CHUV as deputy chief resident and received his FMH title of specialist in General Internal Medicine in 2019.
