Specialty
Cardiology (Pediatric Cardiologist)
Areas of Differentiation
- Congenital heart disease in young people and adults;
- Transthoracic, transesophageal and fetal pediatric echocardiography.
Professional Career
- 1988 – Hospital Assistant in Pediatric Cardiology at Santa Maria Hospital
- 1991 – Hospital assistant at Hospital de Santa Cruz, coordinator of the pediatric echocardiography laboratory and the outpatient clinic of the Pediatric Cardiology Service.
- 1994 – Transesophageal echocardiography internship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, UK.
- 1995 – Fetal echocardiography internship at Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France
- 1997- Hospital assistant qualified as head of service by public tender at Santa Marta Hospital.
- Since 1995 – Pediatric Cardiology Consultant at the district hospitals of Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel, Azores and Hospital de Espírito Santo, Évora, on a monthly basis and weekly through telemedicine consultations, and since 2005 at the SOERAD Clinic in Torres Vedras.
Scientific Societies
- Portuguese Society of Pediatrics;
- Portuguese Society of Cardiology;
- European Association of Pediatric Cardiology;
- Member of the Board of the College of Pediatric Cardiology of the Portuguese Medical Association.
