PIONEERING IN CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

R&M Educação em Saúde EPP (R&M) is a Continuing Medical Education (CME) company created in 2015. It is one of the first Brazilian companies to be strictly governed by the laws and rules in force in Brazil, the United States and Western Europe that regulate CME activities and their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
 

It aims to provide updated Continuing Medical Education, based on effective and independent evidence in the health area, particularly in infectious diseases, through high-quality, relevant, and balanced educational activities geared to the needs of health professionals working in these areas .

Doctors Ricardo Diaz and Mauro Schechter created R&M because they believe that medical education in Brazil will inevitably and progressively adopt the models used in Europe and the United States, that is, by independent CME companies and through unrestricted educational grants.

Dr. Ricardo Diaz is an associate tenured professor in the subject of Infectious Diseases at the Paulista School of Medicine, where he is director of the Retrovirology Laboratory. He is a member of the group that develops the guidelines of the Ministry of Health for the treatment of HIV infection and is a consultant in the laboratory area of ​​the National Coordination for STD/AIDS of the same Ministry.
Between 2007 and 2014, he was the representative, chosen by vote, of Latin America and the Caribbean, on the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Society (IAS). He is the author of more than 200 articles published in the international medical literature and editor of the magazine Trends in HIV and AIDS. He is one of the most requested speakers in the country and has extensive experience in the development of extension courses.

Dr. Mauro Schechter  is Professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Visiting Professor at the Retrovirology Laboratoryat the Federal University of São Paulo, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health,University of Pittsburgh, and Associate at the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. 

Author of more than 200 peer reviewed articles, in the last three decades Prof. Schechter has held various leadership positions in nationaland international initiatives in the areas of training, education and research, including having been the Chairman of the 2005 IAS Congress and of the seven editions so far held of the HIV&Hepatitis in the AmericasCongress, as well as several other congresses, symposia and courses held in Brazil and in several Latin American countries. Prof. Schechter was the elected representativeof Latin America and the Caribbean on the IAS Board of Directors between 1999 and 2002 and between 2015 and 2018. Over the past 25 years, Prof. Schechter has participated in the organization of numerous medical education programs conducted by American and European companies specializing in CME, including Clinical Care Options, ViralEd, and Medscape Medical News. Since 2003 Prof. Schechter has been responsible for the organization of all CME programs conducted by Virology Education (https://academicmedicaleducation.com/) in the Latin American and Caribbean region. In 2016, he created the first CME company in Brazil dedicated to HIV and Hepatitis.