Participation in Católica Medical School 

• Coordinator at the Woman and Child Rotation

Field of Work

Pediatrics | Innate Immunity Disorders | Primary Immunodeficiencies | Clinical Immunology | Pediatric Infectious Diseases | Complex Patients

Profissional Activity

• Católica Medical School (FM-UCP)
• Hospital da Luz Lisboa
• Hospital Dona Estefânia, ULS São Jose
• Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (1996-2002)
• General Internship (2003-2004), Pulido Valente Hospital
• Complementary Internship in Medical Pediatrics, Dona Estefânia Hospital (2005-2010)
• Training in Congenital Errors, Immunity, and Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation, Hôpital Necker enfants malades, Paris.
• Doctorate in Medicine: Unravelling novel genetic and Functional mechanisms of primary immunodeficiencies (2020)
• Pediatric Consultant at the Portuguese Medical Association, 2021
• Summary of Professional Career
• January 2003-December 2004: General Internship, Pulido Valente Hospital
• January 2005-July 2010: Complementary Internship in Medical Pediatrics, Dona Estefânia Hospital
• Since August 2010: Pediatrician, Dona Estefânia Hospital, Primary Immunodeficiency, Infectious Diseases, and Pediatric Intensive Care Units.
• Since September 2019: Director of the Pediatrics Department, Hospital da Luz Lisboa.
• Guest Assistant Professor, Nova Medical School, UC Pediatrics and Immunology, 2010-2020
• Guest Assistant Professor, Nova Medical School, UC Pediatrics and Immunology, since 2020
• Board Member, European Society for Primary Immunodeficiencies, 2018-2022
• President, Pediatric Society for Primary Immunodeficiencies of the Portuguese Society of Pediatrics, since 2020
• Director, College of Pediatrics, Portuguese Medical Association, since 2024

Languages

Portuguese | English| French | Spanish

Other Interests

• Family.
• Sport Lisboa e Benfica
• Literature
• A good red wine