Maria Olívia Rúber de Meneses (1932-1990) graduated in Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. She did her Ph.D. in the subject area of History of Medicine (1971), presenting the thesis "Os Autores Ibéricos Quinhentistas na História da Medicina Portuguesa" (The Iberian 16th century authors in the History of Portuguese Medicine). From the 1st December 1979 she became an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. After the jubilation of Professor Luís de Pina and until the Ph.D. of his assistant Maria Olívia Rúber de Meneses, the teaching of History of Medicine and the direction of the Museum Maximiano Lemos became responsibility of Professor Carlos Ribeiro da Silva Lopes. Maria Olívia Rúber de Meneses was put in charge of the discipline of History of Medicine since 1976-1977 and of Medical Deontology from 1977-1978 to 1990. She also was in charge of the discipline of Medical Deontology and Jurisprudence of the Superior Course of Legal Medicine from 1976 to 1990. The direction of the Museum Maximiano de Lemos was rendered to her on 19th of May 1976. On several years, the direction of the Library of the Faculty of Medicine (starting in 1982). She was part of the Coordinating Commission of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Medicine of Porto as a representative of the 4th group since 1980. She organized and participated in national and international Congresses. She gave a special attention to the organization of the Museum of History of Medicine and to the Portuguese Society of History of Medicine (part of the Society of Medical Sciences of Lisbon), of the Portuguese Society of Museology (APOM) and of the International Society of History of Medicine, in which she was national delegate from 1976 to 1990, among others. She was President of the Organizing Comity of the Northern Nucleus of the APOM. She was a founding member of the Institute of Ethnography of Porto and of the Legal Medical Society of Porto - Portugal, in which she was secretary of the General Assembly. She was one of the proponents of the creation of the Inter-Universitary Center of History of Spirituality in Portugal based in the University of Porto. She belonged to the direction of the Choir of the Faculty of Medicine of Porto and was also connected to the Medical Musical Digest of Porto, whose secretariat was settled in the Museum of History of Medicine.