Hugo Ribeiro is a palliative care medical doctor working for the Community Support Team in Palliative Care - Group of Health Centers, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. He is also an invited assistant at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Coimbra and an investigator at the Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (iCBR) - Group of Environmental Genetics and Oncobiology. He is a medical specialist in general and family medicine, he has a master's degree in medicine, a master's degree in geriatrics, a postgraduate degree in pain control and a postgraduate degree in palliative care and end of life care, and he is finishing a doctorate in palliative care at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. He is a member of several societies, namely the Portuguese Association of General Practitioners, Portuguese Association for the Study of Pain, Portuguese Association of Palliative Care, and European Geriatric Medicine Society. He has received a European Union (EIT Health Innostars) prize and is the author of several national and international publications in the fields of pain therapy and pain mechanisms.