Professor
Professor Auxiliar
Academic Director of the Knowledge Center for AI, RWE & Digital Health at NOVA Medical School; Deputy Director of the Digital Data Design Institute at NOVA
MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, graduated from the University of Lisbon, Portugal and is currently a Pediatric Cardiologist at the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central - Hospital de Santa Marta and Assistant Professor of Physiology, NOVA Medical School.
He worked at the CAF unit (CCUL), where he developed new non-invasive mathematical methods for assessing autonomic function. In 2012, he completed a Pediatric Clinical Cardiac - Electrophysiology Fellowship at Leiden University Medical Center (supervision Prof. Dr. Nico Blom). He is currently working on autonomic influences in cardiac arrhythmias, as well as ANS and electrophysiological imbalances in cardiomyopathies.
A member of the EFAS Education Committee, he has been involved in several editions of the European School of Autonomous Medicine, as well as in doctoral programs taught at the Faculty of Medicine in Lisbon.
Since 2021, he has been an advisor to the Genetics, basic science and myocardial disease working group of the European Association of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and a sub-representative of the CHULC National Reference Center for Congenital Heart Disease at the ERN Guard-Heart.