Maria Teresa is a pharmacist with a master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra. Teresa also has a master’s in food science and engineering from the School of Biotechnology, Portuguese Catholic University NS a PhD in public health and pharmacoepidemiology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, and she received a post-doctoral scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, SFRH/BPD/35746/2007, in Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigillance, for 6 years. She has been a regulatory affairs expert since 2002 at the Portuguese Pharmacist College, and she was a technical director and quality director who was responsible for regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, and clinical trials for more than six years in the pharmaceutical industry. Since 2006, she has been an invited assistant professor in the Department of Medical Sciences at the University of Aveiro, holding responsibility for several curricular units in the biomedical sciences degree and in the master in pharmaceutical biomedicine program.