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Institutional development · Leadership and governance · Brazil

UFRJ Faculty of Pharmacy swears in Suzana Guimarães Leitão and Hilton Santos as new leadership

Two professors have taken over the management of the Faculty of Pharmacy at UFRJ, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, at a ceremony in its Health Sciences Centre.

Photo: Estudante do IE-UFRJ / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Why it matters: Management of UFRJ's Faculty of Pharmacy has passed to professors Suzana Guimarães Leitão and Hilton Santos.

UFRJ reported that its Faculty of Pharmacy has sworn in a new leadership.

According to the university, professors Suzana Guimarães Leitão and Hilton Santos took over the management of the faculty.

The university said the handover took place at a ceremony in the Centro de Ciências da Saúde, its Health Sciences Centre.

Editor’s view

Abigail Taylor, Leadership and Governance Editor

With the swearing-in completed, those dealing with UFRJ's Faculty of Pharmacy will now do so with professors Suzana Guimarães Leitão and Hilton Santos in charge of its management.

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