Specialist in Palliative Medicine. Director of the Palliative Care Service at Hospital of Faro, Local Health Unit of the Algarve, Portugal. President of the Ethics Committee of the Local Health Unit of the Algarve, Portugal. Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto, Department of Palliative Care. Member of the board of the Portuguese Palliative Care Association. Interested in the study and stratification of clinical complexity in palliative care and the bioethical aspects of voluntary death (euthanasia).