Head of Department
Plastic Reconstructive Craniomaxillofacial Hand Surgery and Microsurgery Unit
Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Portugal

ACADEMICS & PROFESSIONAL

• Medical degree in the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade do Porto (2003)
• Fellowship at the ENT Department in Centro Hospitalar e Universitário São João, Porto (2005)
• Post-graduation in Sports Medicine by the Universidade do Porto (2004-05)
• Residency in Plastic, Reconstructive an Aesthetic Surgery in the Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit Department at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (2005-2012)
• Fellowship in Maxillofacial Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery in the Plastic Reconstructive Craniomaxillofacial Hand Surgery and Microsurgery Unit, Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho (2007)
• Fellowship in Reconstructive Microsurgery in the Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Unit Department of the University Hospital of Copenhagen (Rigshospitalet), Denmark (2008)
• Fellowship in Hand Surgery in Instituto de Cirugía Plástica y de la Mano Dr. Piñal y Asociados, Santander, Spain
  (2010)
• PhD program in Biomedicine in the University of Aveiro, Portugal – Application of Biomodelling Technology, Virtual Simulation and 3d Printing in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery” (since 2019)

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND AFFILIATIONS

• President of the Portuguese Society for Plastic Reconstructive and Esthetic Surgery SPCPRE (on the EXCO since 2015)
• Past-President of the Portuguese Society for Hand Surgery SPOCMA (2022-24)
• President of the General Assembly of SPOCMA (since 2024)
• EBOPRAS (European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery) Fellow (since 2014)
• AO Faculty Cranio-Maxillofacial Division (since 2024)
• National Delegate for ICOPLAST (International Confederation of Plastic Surgery Societies) (since 2016)
• National Delegate for FESSH (2018-2022)
• FESSH and IFSSH member
• FILACP member (Iberolatin-american Federation for Plastic Surgery)
• ILA member (Iberolatin-american Group for Hand Surgery
• Portuguese Gourp for Study on Head & Neck Cancer – founding member
• ISPRES – International Society for Plastic and Regenerative Surgery (founding member)
• Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of the European Journal of Plastic Surgery
• International Comittee of the Revista Iberoamericana de Cirugía de la Mano

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

• Invited lecturer/faculty on over 40 national and international scientific meetings and courses
• 207 free papers and posters in national and international scientific meetings with 13 awards
• Junior Travelling Award da Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH, 2010).
• 66 scientific publications on scientific journals and book chapters

SPECIAL FIELDS OF INTEREST

• Reconstructive Microsurgery
• Head & Neck Reconstruction
• Hand Surgery
• Lower Limb Reconstruction
• Virtual Planning, 3D Biomodelling and Surgical Navigation
• Lymphedema