Larissa Farias

Communication and Social Media
Graduated in Product Design from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Master in Science and Technology from Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear. PhD student in Production Engineering at COPPE-UFRJ. Marketing assistant and designer in corporate business and international events.

Elizabeth Hatchuel

International Operational Coordination
Graduated in Administration. MBA in Marketing and Master in Business Management, both from FGV. PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation in the Agricultural Business from UFRRJ. Associate Professor of Social and Business Sciences at UFRRJ. Has international experience in strategic marketing in healthcare.

Ana Holanda

Legal advice
Lawyer Specialist in Right to Health; Master in Public Health with emphasis on Health Policy and Economics - IESC/UFRJ and Researcher at the Health Entrepreneurship Research and Documentation Group IESC/UFRJ. She has 10 years of experience as legal advisor for health plans, currently advocates for patient rights under public and private law.

Renato Malcher- Lopes

President
Graduated in biological sciences and master in molecular biology both from UNB. PhD in Neuroscience from Tulane University (New Orleans, USA). Post-Doctorate in Cellular Neurophysiology at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and in Analytical Biochemistry at the Laboratório de Espectrometria de Massas do Centro de Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia da Embrapa.

Fabricio Alano Pamplona

Pharmacist, PhD in Psychopharmacology, Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. Experience of 15 years as a researcher in the field of cannabinoids. Speaker at several international events. Awarded by the Brazilian Pharmacology Society (SBFTE) and Brazilian Neuroscience Societyt (SBNEC).

Vinicius Barbosa

Graduated in Medicine from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Residency in Psychiatry at the Health Service Dr. Cândido Ferreira in Campinas, Former trainee of the Emergency and Psychiatric Emergency Service of the Hospital das Clínicas of UNICAMP. Former trainee of the Department of Pedopsychiatry Hospital de Ville-Evrard in France and Member of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies on Psychoactive (LEIPSI) - UNICAMP

Paula Dall Stella

MD. Graduated in Radiology / Ultrasonography by Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, USP in 2010. Coordinator of Medical Cannabis Meeting of Snola 2016. Member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society. Member of the International Cannabis Association as Medicine.

Eduardo Faveret

Postgraduate in Neuropediatrics at IFF-Fiocruz. Postgraduate in Clinical Neurophysiology from the University of Bonn, Germany. Postgraduate in Epilepsy at Bethel Epilepsie Zentrum, Germany. Researcher at the Instituto Estadual do Cérebro Paulo Niemeyer. Honorary Member of the Comitê de Neuropediatria da SBEC. Physician at Abracannabis and Apepi.

Ricardo Ferreira

Specialist doctor in spinal surgery and pain management, with master's degree in surgical clinic and executive MBA in health management. Cannabis prescriber as pain medication. Member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (SBOT), Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia da Coluna, Sociedade Brasileira para Estudo da Dor (SBED), Founder and former Director General of the Sociedade Brasileira para Estudo da Cannabis (SBEC), Medical Consultant from the Abracannabis, Cultive and Abrace esperança associations.

Renato Filev

Renato is a researcher, doctor in neurosciences at the Federal University of São Paulo. He investigates the cannabinoid system and its relation with neurobiological and behavioral mechanisms in the problematic use of substances, mainly alcohol and cocaine. Together with Prof. Dartiu Xavier da Silveira participates in the activities of the Program of Orientation and Attendance to Dependents (PROAD) where he currently develops his postdoctoral study by the Department of Psychiatry of UNIFESP.
Develops activities of collaborating researcher in CEBRID - Brazilian Center for Information on Psychotropic Drugs.

Andrea Gallassi

Andrea Gallassi is an Occupational Therapist, Master's and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and postdoctoral fellow by Centre for Addiction & Mental Health from the University of Toronto, Canada. Assistant Professor IV by the University of Brasilia and the General Coordinator of the Reference Center on Drugs and Associated Vulnerabilitiesfrom the University of Brasilia

João Ricardo de Lacerda Menezes

Professor at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas of UFRJ. PhD from UFRJ and Postdoctoral from Harvard Medical School. 28 years dedicated to the study of neurogenesis in the neonatal and adult brain. Speaker on the interaction between science and drug policy; Member of Abracannabis, SBEC and Participant of the Marcha da Maconha

Renato Malcher- Lopes

Bachelor in biological sciences from the University of Brasília, where he also completed his Master's Degree in Molecular Biology. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Tulane University (New Orleans, USA). He also did post-doctoral specialization in cellular neurophysiology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and in Analytical Biochemistry at the Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry at Embrapa's Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (Brasília). He is currently a professor and researcher at the UnB Neurobiology and Behavior Laboratory and a member of the International Center for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP).

Rodrigo Mesquita

Lawyer, Master’s in Human Rights and Citizenship from the University of Brasília with experience in empirical research on social movements and drug policy reform. Founding member of REFORMA - Legal Network for Drug Policy Reform, was also a representative of the Federal Council of the OAB in the National Council on Drug Policy and the National Youth Council in the Public Security and Human Rights Chair

Leandro Ramires

Graduated in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) - 1989, general oncological surgeon, mastologist preceptor of medical residency in the Hospital das Clínicas of UFMG, MD in women's health in the area of concentration of mammary pathology and breast cancer. Prescriber of medical cannabis for compassionate use since 2014. Director of ABMedCAN and president of AMA + ME Brazilian Association of Medicinal Cannabis Patients.

Ricardo Reis

Ricardo Reis is an Associate Professor and Researcher at CNPq PQ2, who works at the Neurochemistry Laboratory and Institute of Biophysics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Bachelor’s in biology from the University of Brasília (UnB) he has a Master's and Doctorate in Biophysics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Post-doctoral degree from the University of Oxford and the University of Coimbra. He has an interest in the role of cannabinoids in the central and peripheral nervous system, calcium imagiology and signaling of neuron-glial circuits.