Diogo Pais MD, MSc, PhD, Agg is Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at NOVA Medical School, NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), where he is the Donation Officer and the President of the Research Ethics Committee. He is currently the Secretary-General of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA), President of the International Committee of Symposia on Morphological Sciences (ICSMS), President of the Portuguese Anatomical Society (SAP-AAP) and was President of the European Federation for Experimental Morphology (EFEM). He was a member of FICEDA, Secretary-General of the IFAA on its Executive and a member of FIPAT when the IFAA required pudere-related terms to be changed.