Current Job

• Director of the IVI RMA Lisbon, Portugal

Education & Training

• MD: Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (1991)
• Residency: Hospital das Clínicas da U.F.M.G. de Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1997)
• PhD: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (2002)

Research Activity

• Cozzolino M, Domingo J, Soares SR. Ovarian stimulation under the effect of isotretinoin Gynecol Endocrinol 2018 Feb;34(2):107-109. doi: 10.1080/09513590.2017.1380185. Epub 2017 Sep 23.
• Esbert M, Godo A, Soares SR, Florensa M, Amorós D, Ballesteros A, Vidal F. Spermatozoa with numerical chromosomal abnormalities are more prone to be retained by Annexin V-MACS columns, Andrology, 2017 Volume 5, Issue 4 July 2017, Pages 807–813.
• Marques C, Guerreiro C, Soares SR. Lights and Shadows about the Effectiveness of IVF in HIV Infected Women: A Systematic Review, Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2015;2015:517208. doi: 10.1155/2015/517208. Epub 2015 Dec 8.
• Sidiropoulou Z, Setúbal A, Barbosa C, Soares SR. Endometriosis and ascites, a strategy to achieve pregnancy. J Min Inv Gynecol, Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 1104–1108, September-October 2015.
• Silva M, Caetano P, Olival V, Alves C, Simão L, Ferreira C, Marques B, Furtado J, Ventura C, Soares SR, Correia H. Discordant chromosome placental mosaicism in a dichorionic twin pregnancy AJMG, 161A (6):1498-500, 2013.
• Soares SR, Martínez Varea A, Hidalgo Mora JJ, Pellicer A. Pharmacology therapies in endometriosis: a systematic review, in Fertility and Sterility, Volume 98, Issue 3, pp. 529-555, 2012.
• Soares SR. Reply of the authors, Etiology of OHSS and use of dopamine agonists, in Fertil Steril 97(6):e27, 2012.
• Mello M, Bellver J, Soares SR. The impact of cigarette smoking on the health of descendants, Expert Rev Obstet Gynecol, 7(2):167-174, 2012.
• Soares SR. Etiology of OHSS and use of dopamine agonists, in Fertility and Sterility, March 1997(3):517-22, 2012.
• Gómez R, Soares SR, Busso C, Garcia-Velasco JA, Simón C, Pellicer A. Physiology and Pathology of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome, Semin Reprod Med, 28(6):448-457, 2010.
• Soares SR, Melo MA. Cigarette Smoking and IVF, invitation published in the Expert Rev Obstet Gynaecol, 20: 281-291, 2008.
• Soares SR, Melo MA. Cigarette smoking and reproductive function. Curr Opin Obstet Gynaecol, 20(3):281-291, 2008.
• Soares SR, Gómez R, García Velasco JA, Simón C, Pellicer A. Targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor system to prevent ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. See comment in PubMed Commons belowHum Reprod Update. 2008 Jul-Aug;14(4):321-33. doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmn008. Epub 2008 Apr 2.
• Soares SR; Garcia Velasco JA, Fernandez M, Bosch E, Remohí J, Pellicer A, Simón C. Clinical Factors affecting endometrial receptiveness in oocyte donation cycles. Fertil Steril, 89(3):491-501, 2008.
• Bellver J, Soares SR, Álvarez C, Muñoz E, Ramírez A, Rubio C, Serra V, Remohí J, Pellicer A. The role of thrombophilia and thyroid autoimmunity in unexplained infertility, implantation failure and recurrent spontaneous abortion, Hum Reprod 23(2):278-84, 2008.
• Soares SR, Godinho C, Nunes S, Pellicer A. Air bubble location inside the uterus after transfer: is the embryo really there?, Fertil Steril, 90(2):443.e17-8, 2008.
• Vernaeve V, Soares SR, Budak E, Bellver J, Remohí J, Pellicer A. Facteurs cliniques et résultats du don d’ovocytes, Gynécologie Obstétrique & Fertilité, 35(10):1015-23, 2007.
• Budak E, Garrido N, Soares SR., Barreto Melo MA, Meseguer M, Pellicer A, Remohí J. Improvements achieved in an oocyte donation program over a 10-year period: sequential increase in implantation and pregnancy rates and decrease in high-order multiple pregnancies. Fertil Steril, 88(2):342-349, 2007.
• Sánchez M, Alamá P, Gadea B, Soares SR, Simón C, Pellicer, A., Fresh human orthotopic ovarian córtex transplantation: long-term results, Hum Reprod, 22(3):786-791, 2007.
• Soares SR, Simon C, Remohi J, Pellicer A. Cigarette smoking affects uterine receptiveness, in Human Reproduction, fev; 22(2):543-7, 2007.
• Bellver J, Lara C, Soares SR, Ramirez A, Pellicer A, Remohí J, Serra, V. First trimester biochemical screening for Down's syndrome in singleton pregnancies conceived by assisted reproduction. Hum Reprod, 20(9):2623-7, 2005.
• Bellver J, Albert C, Soares SR, Alvarez C, Pellicer A. The singleton, term gestation, and live birth rate per cycle initiated: a one year experience in vitro fertilization cycles with native and donated oocytes, in Fertility and Sterility, 83(5):1404-9, 2005
• Soares SR, Troncoso C, Bosch E, Serra V, Simón C, Remohí J, Pellicer A. Age and uterine receptiveness: predicting the outcome of oocyte donation cycles, J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(7):4399-404, 2005.
• Bellver J, Muñoz E, Ballesteros A, Soares SR., Bosch E, Simón C, Pellicer A, Remohí J. Intravenous albumin does not prevent moderate-severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in high-risk IVF patients: a randomized controlled study. Hum Reprod, 18(11):2283-2288, 2003.
• Soares SR, Rubio C, Rodrigo L, Simón C, Remohí J, Pellicer A. Increased frequency of chromosome abnormalities in embryos obtained from oocyte donation cycles, in Fertility and Sterility, 80(3):656-657, 2003.
• Soares SR, Vidal F., Bosch M, Martínez-Pasarell O, Nogués C, Egozcue J, Templado C. Acrocentric chromosome disomy is increased in spermatozoa from fathers of Turner syndrome patients. Hum Genet, 108:499-503, 2001.
• Soares SR, Templado C, Blanco J, Egozcue J, Vidal F. Numerical chromosome abnormalities in the spermatozoa of the fathers of children with trisomy 21 of paternal origin: generalised tendency to meiotic non-disjunction, Hum Genet, 108:134-39, 2001.
• Soares SR, Reis MM, Camargos AF. Diagnostic accuracy of sonohysterography, transvaginal sonography and hysteroscopy in uterine cavity diseases. Fertil Steril, 73(2):406-11, 2000.
• Reis MM, Soares SR, Cançado ML, Camargos AF. Hysterosalpingo contrast sonography (HyCoSy) for the assessment of tubal patency, Hum Reprod, 13 (11):3049-52, 1998.