Born in Porto, Portugal.
MD degree obtained at the ICBAS (Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar) School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, in 1991.
Trained as a Nephrologist at the Hospital de Santo António, CHUPorto.
Degree of Nephrologist obtained in 1/Feb/2000.
Since January/2012, Consultant of Nephrology.
Assistant activities: developed mainly at the Renal Transplant Unit and Pancreatic Transplant Unit of Hospital Santo António, CHUPorto.
Currently, Head of Renal Transplant Unit, Nephrology Department.
Investigator of the Unit for Multidisciplinar Research in Biomedicine (UMIB) – ICBAS School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto.
Invited Associated Professor of Medicine on the ICBAS School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto.
PhD degree obtained in March/2015 at the University of Porto. The theme: “Pancreas-kidney transplantation: clinical and metabolic outcomes and autoimmunity after the transplant”.
Main fields of interest: Pancreas and kidney transplantation, being first author or co-author of the ongoing investigation projects.
Communications/lectures to congresses: more than 200, in national or international congresses, more than 100 as the first author.
First author of, at least, 25 published articles and co-author of more than other 100 publications. Author or co-author of 3 chapters of scientific books
Awards received: 13 national and international Prizes.
Participation in international and multicentric clinical studies: more than 12, as co-investigator or principal investigator.
President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Society of Transplantation