Academic Education

• PhD student in Medicine at NOVA Medical School / Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa;
• Integrated Master in Medicine with a final classification of 17 values.
• Complementary internship in the professional area of Ophthalmology at the Ophthalmology Service of Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, with a final classification of 19.70. 2016-2020.
• Clinical internship of Medical Retina and Ocular Inflammation at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, United Kingdom), in 2019;
• Clinical internships for Cornea and Implant-Refractive Surgery at the Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular (Barcelona, Spain) and at the Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, United Kingdom).

Clinical Activity

Scientific Activity

• Affiliate Professor of the Course Introduction to Clinical Practice at Nova Medical School 2018-2020.
• Trainer in nine postgraduate training courses in Ophthalmology, including two instructional courses at the ESCRS International Congress 2016-2020.
• Invited Monitor of the Curricular Units of Anatomy, Physiology, Anatomy and Clinical Imaging, and Fundamentals of Neuroscience 2009-2014.
• Author of 14 publications in international journals with peer review, 6 of which as first author; 4 publications in national scientific journals; 12 abstracts published in Proceedings of Scientific Meetings.

Awards

He received 7 awards for scientific research in the field of Ophthalmology (5 of which studies carried out as the first author, with three international awards):

• Borges de Souza Award - Factors associated with primary DSAEK bankruptcy: retrospective analysis (first author), 2019
• Best Poster Presentation Award at the XXVII Ophthalmology Meeting of CHULC- Decreased recurrent central vision in a young adult woman (first author)
• 2018 EyeWiki American Academy of Ophthalmology International Award Ophtalmologists Contest - Treatment of Uveitis (first author) 2018
• Best Rapid-Fire Presentation 3rd EYMO Award - Retinal and optic nerve head microvasculare in Alzheimer's disease - an OCT-A study (first author) 2018.
• Diploma Award with distincion 3rd EYMO- Ocular consequences of processionary setae (co-author) 2018.
• 11th EGS Residents' Course Award (first author) 2017.
• Borges de Souza Award - XEN implantation and trabeculectomy: medium-term quality of life and comparison of results (co-author) 2017.

Positions in professional order and in scientific societies