Senior Consultant in Nephrology and Coordinator of the Nephrogenetics Working Group of the Portuguese Society of Nephrology. HCP Deputy of Adult Unit of ERKNet (European Rare Kidney Disease Reference Network). Author and co-author of numerous national and international publications including about rare Kidney diseases. Member of the multidisciplinary team for metabolic disorders.

Invited Full Professor at ICBAS, University of Porto. President of the National Council for Medical Education of the Portuguese Medical Association. Member of the Advisory Board of the National Agency for Higher Education Accreditation (A3ES)

Member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical Research. Senior Researcher at UMIB, Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine

Director of the Department of Undergraduate Medical Education at ICBAS (2016–2023). Currently, Director of the Department of Education and Training at ULS Santo António