Director of Intensive Care Medicine Service, Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João, Porto; Associate Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto; Director of the National Program for Prevention of Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, Directorate General of Health; President of the Portuguese Board of Intensive Care Physicians. Medical Degree, University of Porto, 1984. PhD at University of Porto, in 2005, with a Doctoral Thesis on Sepsis and Inflammatory Response. Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine and in Internal Medicine. Competency in Emergency Medicine and in Management of Health Systems. Author of more than 200 papers, more than 10 800 citations, h index 40 and i10 index 92. Gold Medal of Distinguished Services of the Ministry of Health in 2018 (individually) and in 2021 (as a member of the National Committee for the Management of the Critical Care Response to COVID-19). 5. Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine; Portuguese Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Portuguese Council of Resuscitation.