Carlos Eduardo Czeresnia and Lucila Pires Evangelista join forces to found a gynecology and obstetrics clinic. Together they inaugurate an innovative model concerned with offering comprehensive pregnancy care.
A team of obstetric nurses is formed a few years later – including Lisiane Hoyos and Roseli Monteiro, who are still part of the clinical staff.
Radiologist Maria Aparecida Murakami weight in with her expertise to expand the clinic’s offer of imaging exams. Later, the team gains another specialist in 2013: Regina Yoshiassu.
Fetal Medicine becomes part of the scope of the clinic with the entry of Denise Araújo Lapa, who has recently arrived from internships in the United States and England. This specialty becomes increasingly important in the diagnosis and treatment of infirmities of babies still in the mother’s womb.
Denise Araújo Lapa performs the first fetoscopy in Brazil for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
Carlos Czeresnia delivers Chana Rivka Goldman’s babies, becoming the first Brazilian doctor to deliver triplets on different dates.
The clinic is baptized: the name Célula Mater is born and a new headquarters is inaugurated, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize in Architecture. The new facilities provide more convenience to patients, offering an on-site Clinical Analysis Laboratory, a small Surgical Center and an Assisted Reproduction Center.
Anthroposophic Medicine widens the array of options at Célula Mater with the arrival of gynecologist and obstetrician Natalia Zekhry.
The 1st Mother’s Walk is inaugurated to celebrate the Célula Mater community.
Miriam Dambros is invited to join the clinical staff, adding Urology to the clinic’s specialties. She holds a doctorate from the Netherlands and has published several articles.
A partnership is formed between Célula Mater and USP’s Genome Project. The clinic offers assistance and financial resources for studies in the area ofhuman reproduction, genetics and immunology.
Carlos and Lucila add obstetrics specialists: Fernanda Deutsch Plotzky (2009), Rodrigo Codarin (2016), Fernando Nobrega (2016), Renata Franco Mendes (2017) and Marina de Oliveira Gonzales (2017).
In an effort to ensure that the team is always up-to-date, Célula Mater begins to hold weekly refresher meetings with its doctors, providing content by the best professionals from all areas of Medicine.
Carlos Czeresnia and Célula Mater are part of the team of researchers that won the Health Award in the Women’s Health category for the study on new sources of multipotent stem cells discarded during surgery.
Carlos Czeresnia is once again part of the team that wins the Health Award in the Women’s Health category, this time for research on the use of stem cells in the treatment of osteoporosis and bone diseases.
Launch of the first issue of the CélulaMater Press magazine, which arrives to expand communication with our patients.
After 14 years of experimental work, Denise Araújo Lapa uses a pioneering technique to perform the first intrauterine fetal surgery in Brazil to correct myelomeningocele. Since then, more than 80 women have undergone surgery.
Lucila Pires Evangelista is recognized as Top Doctor by the Who’s Who global directory for her contributions in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Denise Araújo Lapa wins the Claudia Award in the Science category for the development of her innovative technique.
Launch of the YouTube channel: Célula Mater TV
Gynecologist and obstetrician Rodrigo Codarin is part of the team that performs the first post-uterine transplant delivery in Brazil.
Célula Mater gets a makeover. The new, more modern logo starts from the word cell, as a center that transmits, promotes exchanges, disseminates knowledge and offers solutions. From the inside out, from the outside in.
Twenty years ago, the dream of a one-stop shop Women's Health Clinic became reality. Since then, we've had the privilege of being a part of the Clinic and filling it with many life stories. Congratulations to us all!
A new diagnostic imaging area is inaugurated, bringing the best mammography professionals and services into our home.
Forty years and counting... Four decades of assisting every patient, applying and sharing knowledge in Women's Health. Multiplying our cells healthily is in our DNA. Thank you for being a part of our story!
