Current knowledge in reproductive medicine : proceedings of the 10th World congress
on human reproduction, Salvador, Brazil, 4-8 Mai 1999 / editors, Elsimar M. Coutinho
and Paulo Spinola
Wikipedia, 2020-09-01
Information trouvée : Elsimar Metzker Coutinho (May 18, 1930 – August 17, 2020) was a Brazilian scientist
of Luso-Austrian descent, professor, gynecologist, television personality, and character
named as "Prince of Itapoa", in the books of Jorge Amado which references the Coutinho
family's land in Itapoa where Amado himself lived. Coutinho studied pharmacy at the
Faculdade de Farmácia e Bioquímica, graduating in 1951 followed by a course in medicine,
completed in 1956, both at the Federal University of Bahia/UFBA. Coutinho then attended
a graduate course at the Sorbonne in Paris. On his return from France he became an
associate professor of physiology at UFBA, but not for long as he was invited to be
a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in the area of reproductive endocrinology,
there he worked at the "Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research", which has become
"Rockefeller University". After leaving New York, Coutinho became the director of
clinical research of the Climério de Oliveira Maternity Clinic of the Federal University
of Bahia. Under his directorship the center became the first Human Reproduction Research
Center of the World Health Organization in Latin America. These studies led to the
discovery of the first injectable contraceptive: Ciclofem. After Ciclofem, Coutinho
was the pioneer of the studies that led to the discovery of the use of Depo-Provera,
the first injectable contraceptive method with prolonged effects. Coutinho also proposed
the first contraceptive pill containing norgestrel.
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