Director of the Medical Oncology Service at the IPO Coimbra and Medical Oncologist. He holds qualifications in Health Services Management and Emergency Medicine, and a Master's degree in Clinical Oncology from ICBAS. He is the President-Elect of the Portuguese Society of Oncology (SPO) and Coordinator of the Liver and Biliary Tract Study Group of the same society. He also serves as Coordinator of the Rectal Cancer Reference Center at the IPO Coimbra. Currently, he is a PhD student in Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC).