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The history of the Section of Neonatology (SN) begins on March 30, 1984. On that date, the then General Secretary of the Pediatric Society (SPP), John Vine Amaral, heading a list of applicants, addressed in regulatory terms, the President that Luiz Marques Pinto a statute project prepared by Luís Duarte Fino.

The December 7, 1984 the Director of the SPP official takes note of the proposal and proposes to vote on it at the Special Meeting.

This is done to March 16, 1986 and posponed is voted unanimously, being thus created the Section of Neonatology.

The first Director of the Section is chaired Almeida Ramos, as general secretary Duarte Fino, Assistant Secretary Micaela Serelha and as treasurer, Ofelia Guerrero.

The following directions were as presidents L. Duarte Fino, Rui Carrapato, Maria do Céu Machado, Teresa Neto and Valdemar Martins.

One concern of the Section has been from the beginning, training and updating of professionals linked to the newborn. So they have been regularly organized national thematic workshops where several subjects that the perinatology interest are discussed.

From 1986 to 2004 are carried out thirty-one national journeys five Iberian meeting with the collaboration of Spanish Society of Neonatology and Galas Five Internal.

The Section has sponsored several research papers, including the Group of the National Register of Newborns of Very Low Birth Weight, started in 1994, the National Group Registration of Nephrology uropathy Congenital, Epidemiology of Infection Systemic in Portuguese Newborns and Incidence Study of infection by group B Streptococcus in children under 90 days of age.

It has published a monograph “Consensus in Neonatology” whose second volume is updated in print and edit from nine years ago the “Newsletter of the Section of Neonatology.”

It also maintains contacts with various societies of European and Latin American neonatology.

Collaborates since 2003 in Euroneonet, European network registration database newborn very low birth weight.

Adapted from the text “Contribution to the History Section of Neonatology (SN)”, by Professor Dr. Vine Amaral.