Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Head of Cardiology Dpt, University Hospital Sta Maria/CHLN; Immediate Past-President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Graduated at Lisbon University Medical School in 1984. Cardiology fellowship at Santa Maria University Hospital and Stanford University Medical School (CA, USA), where he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Clinical Attending in the Echocardiography laboratory. He did an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at the same institution. Full Professor of Cardiology at Lisbon University Medical School, Lisbon. Director of Lisbon Cardiovascular Institute since 1999 and Coordinator/President of Cardiovascular Cent...