2010 – Director of Pediatric Cardiology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto (CHUP)/ Centro Materno Infantil do Norte (CMIN)
2010 – Member of the Risk Committee of CHUP
2009 – Member of the Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine – UMIB, University of Porto.
2008 – Member of the Committee for Grants Attribution of Departamento de Ensino, Formação e Investigação (DEFI), CHUP
2018 – Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist at Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto
Academic Career
2004 – 2017 – Invited Assistant Professor in Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Saúde do Porto (ESTSP)

2021 – National Coordinator for Portugal for the EU-COST PARQ project
2021 – President of the Board of the College of Paediatric Cardiology of the Portuguese Medical Association
2016 – Member of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Paediatric Cardiology
2013 – National Delegate of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology
2015 – 2020 – Member of the Board of the College of Paediatric Cardiology of the Portuguese Medical Association
2013 – 2017 – Member of the Board of the GUCH Working Group of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology.
2009 – 2012 – Member of the Board of the Working Group of Pulmonary Hypertension of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology
1997 – 2007 – Member of the Board of the College of Paediatric Cardiology of the Portuguese Medical Association
2004 – 2007 – President of the Portuguese Society of Paediatric Cardiology
Editorial activity
2017 – Editor in chief of the Birth and Growth Medical Journal
2004 – 2016 – Editor in chief of the Journal Nascer e Crescer
1992 – 2004 – Editor of the Journal Nascer e Crescer
Peer-review for several national and international journals

Author of one book and 2 book chapters, author of 82 published papers in national and international papers in national and international peer-review journals, over than 137 communications as author/co-author in scientific meetings, over 60 lectures and conferences in scientific meetings by invitation.

Organizer of 60 National Meetings and Courses of Paediatrics and Paediatric Cardiology such as Portuguese Congress of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Defects Working Group Meetings, Pulmonary Hypertension Working Group Meetings, Pediatric Cardiology Society Meetings, CMIN Summit.

Guidance of several investigation projects in Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiomyopathy, Marfan Syndrome, Quality of Life, Neonatology, Genetics, Neuromuscular and Metabolic Diseases

Eudract Nº. 2016-000991-49
DU176b-D-U312

Eudract Nº. 2018-002485-39
PROTOCOL TAK-935-2002 (OV935)

EudraCT Nº. 2018-004530-14
BI Trial No. 1199-0337

EudraCT Nº. 2019-004297-26
BI Trial No TREOCAPA –C19-29

EudraCT Nº. 2018-000821-29
EC2020.145- SPD503-401

EUDRA CT Nº. 2018-000516-22
Protocol number : 800MS301

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Ratola A, Silva HM, Guedes A, Mota C, Braga AC, Oliveira D, Alegria A, Carvalho C, Álvares S, Proença E. A Novel Noonan Syndrome RAF1 Mutation: Lethal Course in a Preterm Infant Pediatr Rep. 2015 May 25; 7(2): 5955.

Novo A, Pinto S, Prior C, Álvares S, Soares T, Guedes M. Kawasaki disease and sensorineural hearing loss: an (un)expected complication Eur J Pediatr. 2012 May;171(5):851-4.

Reis A, Rocha N, Barros R, Martins A, Oliveira F, Diogo AN, da Silva AM, Alvares S, Shiang T, Castro G, Agapito A. Guidelines for the management of pulmonary hypertension patients Rev Port Cardiol. 2010 Feb;29(2):253-89.