Head of the Spine Unit - Department of Neurosurgery - Centro Hospitalar São João

Invited Assistant Professor - Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (Neurology and Neurosurgery)

Former Vice-President of the Portuguese Spine Society (2007-12)

Former Vice-President of the Portuguese Neurosurgical Society (2013-14)

Vice-President of the Portuguese Spine Society (2005-16)

Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (Founder Officer)

Member of the Training Committee of the Portuguese Society of Neurosurgery (since 2011)

National Representative (Portugal) of the International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery (since 2011)

 

Summary of the Scientific Activity:

- Author of 34 and co-author of 100 presentations in national and international scientific meetings

- Author of +150 lectures in national and international scientific meetings

- Participation in +100 sessions (round-tables) in national and international scientific meetings

- Author / co-author of 29 papers published in national and international scientific journals + 25 publications of abstracts of presentations

- Faculty Member in +100 national and international scientific meetings

- Participation in 4 international multicentre investigation projects + 4 national projects

- Supervisor of 2 Master’s thesis (Medicine)

 

Special Interests:

- Minimally invasive spine surgery

- Surgery of the craniovertebral junction

- Spinal cord and intradural spine surgery

- Percutaneous spinal techniques