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Curriculum vitae

Nephrologist at ULS Santo António, Porto, and Invited Assistant Professor at ICBAS, University of Porto. Download the full CV in PDF.

Current positions

2023 – present
Nephrologist (Assistente Hospitalar)
Nephrology Department, Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António, Porto, Portugal. Clinical nephrology with a focus on glomerular and complex kidney disease; dialysis (haemodialysis and peritoneal) and kidney transplantation. Part of the practice runs within the Centro de Responsabilidade Integrada (CRI) for Dialysis, an autonomous management unit operating under internal contract.
2026 – present
Invited Assistant Professor and Researcher
ICBAS — School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UMIB — Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine, University of Porto. Teaching at ICBAS since 2024.

Education

2019 – 2025
PhD in Medical Sciences
ICBAS, University of Porto. Thesis: Clinical and Molecular Characterization of the Spectrum of Obesity Related Kidney Disorders. Supervisor: Prof. Anabela Rodrigues, MD PhD; co-supervisor: Prof. Mariana P. Monteiro, MD PhD. Approved unanimously, without corrections.
2010 – 2016
Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine
ICBAS, University of Porto. ERASMUS at Université Paris Cité (2014/2015) and ERASMUS+ at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (2015/2016).

Clinical training

2022
Specialist degree in Nephrology
Conselho Nacional do Internato Médico / ACSS, Portugal
2018 – 2022
Specialty training in Nephrology
ULS Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Kidney transplantation internship
Kidney Transplantation Unit, Nephrology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António, Porto — under Prof. La Salete Martins and Dr. Leonídio Dias.
Sep – Nov 2022
Kidney pathology internship
Division of Renal Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, USA — under Prof. Charles Alpers and Prof. Behzad Najafian. Funded by a Portuguese Society of Nephrology grant.
Apr – Jun 2022
Vascular access internship
Hart&Vaat Centrum, Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands — under Prof. Maarten Snoeijs and Prof. Magda van Loon, focused on complex vascular access for haemodialysis.
2017
General internship year
Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra, Portugal

Continuing education

2026 – 2028
Postgraduate Curriculum in Rare Kidney Diseases
ERKNet — Heidelberg University Hospital
2025
ICH-GCP E6(R3) certification
Global Health Training Centre

Teaching and supervision

2024 – present
Medicine I (Nephrology)
Integrated Master in Medicine, ICBAS, University of Porto
2025 – present
Physiology
Integrated Master in Medicine, ICBAS, University of Porto
2021 – present
Master’s thesis supervision
Four dissertations in the Integrated Master in Medicine, ICBAS — on kidney transplantation, genetic epidemiology, acid–base disorders and obesity-related kidney disease. Two completed, one of them published in Obesity Surgery; two ongoing.
2024 – present
Specialty training supervisor — Nephrology
ULS Santo António: responsible for the training pathway and scientific output of nephrology residents.
2023 – present
Clinical rotation supervisor
ULS Santo António: nephrology residents, general-year interns and residents from other specialties, across the ward, outpatient clinic, dialysis techniques and kidney biopsy. Also trains nurses and technicians in dialysis techniques.
Other teaching
Practical tutor in Bioengineering at UTAD.

Committees and governance

2025 – present
Coordinator, Medicine area
ICBAS, University of Porto: reviews and approves medical students’ study and placement plans, including international mobility (ERASMUS).
2024 – present
Coordinator, Nephrogenetics sub-area
Nephrology Department, ULS Santo António: connects the department to reference laboratories and to the European ERKNet network; responsible for the centre’s ERKReg.
2023 – present
Member, Infection Control Committee
ULS Santo António: contributes to infection control policy, audits practice and advises on resource allocation.
2019 – 2021
Elected member, Pedagogical Council
ICBAS, University of Porto: elected by direct universal suffrage to the 16-member joint body (8 faculty, 8 students) while a doctoral student; contributed to the teaching and assessment regulations.

Clinical research and trial experience

2026 – present
Sub-Investigator — BI 764198 in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Phase 3, sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim (NCT07220083), ULS Santo António. Protocol execution, recruitment and participant safety under ICH-GCP.
2026 – present
Sub-Investigator — AWAKE: ravulizumab in delayed graft function
Phase 3 in kidney transplantation, sponsor Alexion / AstraZeneca (NCT06830798), ULS Santo António. Protocol execution, recruitment and participant safety under ICH-GCP.
Principal Investigator
Clinical and Molecular Characterization of Obesity-Related Kidney Disorders (PhD research programme, UMIB-ICBAS/UP): prospective cohort with serial evaluation, protocol design, recruitment, informed consent, biological sample collection and storage, longitudinal data collection and safety oversight; omics analyses with national and international reference laboratories; ethics committee, GDPR and biospecimen governance compliance.
ERKReg editor for the centre — ERKNet
European Rare Kidney Disease Reference Network: identification and enrolment of patients with rare kidney disease, standardised data capture registries, clinical phenotyping and case review panels.
Co-Investigator — RICERCARE
Portuguese Society of Nephrology screening programme for Fabry disease in CKD stages 1–5: patient identification, genetic screening workflows and clinical phenotyping.
Co-Investigator — IgA Nephropathy Registry
Portuguese Society of Nephrology: patient identification and enrolment, registry governance and structured follow-up of immunologically mediated CKD.
Co-Investigator — Reuma.pt (renal / vasculitis modules)
Portuguese Rheumatology Society registry: registry-based outcomes research in systemic autoimmune and vasculitis-related kidney disease, integrated clinical and immunological profiling, medication exposure tracking and flare/remission monitoring.

Awards and invitations

2026
Invited trainer — Medical Statistics webinar, The Kidney Academy
Proposed by the Portuguese Society of Nephrology to train fourth-year nephrology residents nationally; designed the curriculum and the assessment instrument.
2026
Invited panellist — “Beyond Reaction” workshop
ACM Interactive Health Conference (IH’26), Porto
to 2025
Invited peer reviewer
Obesity Surgery (Springer) and Cureus Journal of Medical Science
2024
Invited trainer — ultrasound for vascular access
I Nursing Conference in Nephrology, ULS Santo António
2022
Best Poster Award
Nephro Update Europe, Amsterdam
2021
Invited speaker
4th UMIB Scientific Seminar Series, ICBAS, University of Porto
2007/2008
Merit Scholarship
Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation

Professional affiliations

Publications

Fifteen peer-reviewed articles, nine of them as first author, and seven conference abstracts — see the full list, or ORCID / Google Scholar.

Languages

Portuguese (native), English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Contact

[email protected] · Serviço de Nefrologia, Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António, Largo Professor Abel Salazar, 4099-001 Porto, Portugal

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