Margarida Figueiredo-Dias is a Professor with Aggregation of Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC). She practices Gynecology with a sub-specialization in Breast Diseases, Hereditary Tumors, Cervico-Vulvar Pathology and Prevention of Gynecological Diseases. She is the author of the book Benign Breast Diseases, several chapters of national and foreign scientific books and more than 80 scientific articles. She is a researcher in multiple Scientific Research Projects, awarded Research Grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Foundation for Science and Technology, Luso-American Foundation for Development and Ministry of Health of the Government of Portugal.