Academic Medical Training
Graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in 1983
Postgraduate Degree in Management and Direction of Health Services from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto in 2005
Hospital Assistant and Specialist in General Surgery by the Portuguese Medical Association in 1994
Graduated Hospital Assistant and Consultant in General Surgery by the Portuguese Medical Association in 2002
Healthcare activity
Graduate Hospital Assistant in Surgery at the General Surgery Department of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP), Extradigestive Surgery Unit
Team Leader of the CHUP Emergency Department
Private surgical practice
Areas of particular interest
Extra-digestive Oncological Surgery – Breast, Ovarian, Sarcomas, Melanoma, Head & Neck
Abdominal wall surgery (hernias, eventrations)
Endocrine surgery (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal)
Head and neck surgery (salivary glands)
Retroperitoneal surgery
Healthcare-associated infections
Surgical site infection
Management and coordination activities
Head of Unit 2 (Extradigestive Surgery) of CHUP’s General Surgery Service from 2009 to 2015
Head of CHUP’s Breast Pathology Unit since its creation in 2015
Head of CHUP’s Emergency Team from 2003 to 2016
Member of CHUP’s Infection Control Committee since 1996
Member of CHUP’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee from 1996 to 2006
Teaching Activities
Invited Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute of the University of Porto (ICBAS – UP)
Regent of the Surgery I and Surgical Specialties Curricular Unit of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine at ICBAS – UP
