• Medical degree: ICBAS-School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto-1983
• Medical Specialization in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto -1991
• PhD degree  in medical Sciences: “Alterações Vesico-esfincterianas na Polineuropatia, Amiloidotica Familiar”, March 2002, ICBAS-School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto-Invited Associate Professor, ICBAS-School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto since 2007
• Invited Professor in several Nurse Schools – rehabilitation specialization courses: Escola Superior de Saúde do Vale do Sousa (2006/2007), Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Viana do Castelo (2007/208), Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra since 2014
• Master em Ecografia Musculoesquelética e Intervencionismo Ecoguiado. Instituto de Posgrado, Fundacion San Pablo de Andalucia e a Sociedad Andaluza de Medicina Fisica y Rehabilitación. October 2019 to September 2020.

• Head of inpatient unit of the PM&R Service since 1992 – Hospital de Santo António CHUPorto
• Head of the Spinal Cord Unit of the PM&R Service since 1992 – Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto
• Founder of the Urodynamic Lab. PM&R Service in 1992
• Portuguese partner of the European Network – International spinal cord society, since  1999
• Head of PM&R Service: April 2004 – September 2005 – Hospital de Santo António CHUPorto
• Head of Service since 2002 – Hospital de Santo António CHUPorto
• First President of the Spinal Cord Injury Section of the Portuguese Society of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine: March 2009- March 2017
• Member of the scientific committee of the Associação Portuguesa de Neuro-urologia e de Uro-Ginecologia, 2011-2012
• Board member of the Associação Portuguesa de Neuro-urologia e de Uro-Ginecologia, 2013-2017
• Member of the scientific comittee of the Associação Portuguesa de Neuro-urologia e de Uro-Ginecologia since 2017
• Interlocutor of the PMR College of the National Trauma Commission, February 2018-Member of the Section for Study and Intervention in Rehabilitation of Spasticity of the Portuguese Society of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine: since 2010.

• Mayo Clinic- Rochester, E.U.A.(1991): Neuroreabilitação, bexigas neurogénicas / estudos urodinâmicos.
• Hospital Nacional de Paraplégicos- Toledo, Espanha (1991): Traumatizados vertebro-medulares (T.V.M.); estudos urodinâmicos, reeducação sexual e reprodução assistida.
• National Reabilitation Hospital- Washington, E.U.A. (1994): Programa de reprodução assistida nos T.V.M./ electroejaculação.
• Fundació Institut Guttmann – Barcelona, Espanha (1997): Traumatizados vertebro-medulares; bexigas neurogénicas e estudos urodinámicos.

Courses Organizations-11

Organizations symposiums and Congresses-8

Invited lectures-74 nationals and 14 internationals

Research work

• Alterações vesico-esfincterianas na polineuropatia amiloidótica familiar – PhD thesis.
• An International, prospective cohort to document the effectiveness of one bont-A injections cycle based on attainment of individual person-centred goals in adult subjects suffering from upper limb spasticity following stroke – ULIS- 2. Observational study, 2009-2010.
• An International, Cross- Sectional, non-Intervention Survey to Define Profiles pf Adult Patient Suffering From Upper Limb Spasticity and Requiring Botulinum Toxin A Injections. Research project, 2008.
• A Multicentre, randomised, , Controlled Trial to Evaluate  the Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness of Silver Alloy- Coated urinary  Catheters  versus conventional catheters in Spinal Cord Injured Patients. Clinical trial, 2015-2016.
• International survey, Portuguese branch: People with spinal cord Injury in Portugal. Research project, 2017.

Awards

Award for the best best publication with the work: Padrão Heterodoxo das Alterações Cardíacas, Hemodinâmicas, Endócrinas e Renais em Doente Tetraplégico Incompleto, Prémio Arquivos de Fisiatria 1999.

Scientific lecture award, Birth after Electroejaculation Coupled to Intracytoplasmatic Sperm Injection, ARTA (Assisted Reproduction/ Thechnology /Andrology) Twin Conference. Jena, Germany, 2000.

Award for the best best publication with the work: Electroejaculação Associada a Injecção Intra-Citoplasmática de Esperma em Lesionados Medulares. Arquivos de Fisiatria, 2001.

National Award for Scientific Research, by José de Mello Saúde – Maria Amélia de Mello Award for Health Science – 2002 with the work Alterações vesico-esfincterianas na polineuropatia amiloidótica familiar.

Award for the best poster presentation with the work: Plexopatia lombossagrada radiógena: um caso de restabelecimento da marcha, XII Congresso Internacional Medicina Física e de Reabilitação Hospital S. João. Porto, 2015.

Scientific societies

• Member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação since 1987
• Member of the International Spinal Cord Society since 1995
• Member of the International Continence Society since 2002
• Member of the European Physical Medical and Rehabilitation Society since 2008