Susana Constantino Rosa Santos obtained graduation in Microbial Biology and Genetics by Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 1997. She completed her PhD in Bases Fondamentales de l’Oncogénèse at University of Paris 7 (France) in September 2001.  From October 2001 and December 2004 she performed her PostDoc at Instituto Português de Oncologia, Lisbon, and Instituto Gulbenkian, Oeiras (Portugal). From 2005 she is Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine of the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She established the Angiogenesis Unit in 2008, first in Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon and from 2014 in CCUL.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5711-1292
E-mail: sconstantino@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Fátima Casaca works for CCUL as administrative assistant since 1997. She graduated at 2006 at Lisbon Institute of Engineering. She gives support at financial and administrative areas to researchers of CCUL. She also works at the Association for the Research and the Development of the Faculty and she is PA for Prof. Pinto.

E-mail: mfaticae@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Ana Margarida Pinto is a dietitian/nutritionist (5634N) and assistant professor at FMUL. She trained as a dietitian at FMUL and completed a Master’s Degree in Nutrition, followed by a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, at King’s College London (KCL). As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at KCL, Ana conducted clinical trials on the acute effects of polyphenol and fibre-rich drinks on cardiometabolic outcomes and cognition, and the impact of replacing wheat flour with cellular chickpea powder on the glycaemic and gut hormone responses in healthy individuals. Currently, Ana is engaged in pedagogical activities with undergraduate and master’s students at FMUL in the area of nutrition. Ana’s current research interests include personalised nutrition interventions (based on the Mediterranean diet) for patients enrolled in a phase III cardiac rehabilitation programme in Lisbon and promotion of healthy lifestyles in school-based community programs.

ORCID: 0000-0001-9364-905X
E-mail: aapinto@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Inês holds a PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London (2014). She graduated from the Lisbon School of Health Technology with a BSc in Cardiopneumology in 2001, followed by a Master’s degree in Medical Imaging – Ultrasound in 2006. In 2016, she completed a two-year Master’s programme in Monitoring, Quality and Statistics at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

ORCID ID: 0000-00033876-616X
E-mail: inescabrita@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Mafalda Bourbon is Co-Principal Investigator of the Molecular Medicine in Dyslipidaemia and Diabetes Unit at the Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa (CCUL), together with Patrício Aguiar. She is also Principal Researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, where she serves as Coordinator of the R&D Unit and Head of the Cardiovascular Research Group at the Department of Health Promotion and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases. In addition, she is an Invited Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências and Invited Associated Professor at Faculdade de Medicina, both from Universidade de Lisboa. She completed her PhD in Clinical Sciences in 2006 at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine – Hammersmith Campus. She also holds a MSc in Molecular Medicine by Imperial College London. She is the Chair of the Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Variant Curation Expert Panel at Clinical Genome Resource and the National lead Investigator of 2 international FH registries (FH Studies Collaboration and International Children FH Registry). She also participates in the 1 million Genomes Initiative in the country mirror groups on sequencing and interpretation standards and complex disorders and is part of the Public Health Group at FH Europe, a patient association initiative. She is a board member of the Iberoamerican FH network and is part of the Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Atherosclerosis Society. She published more than 80 peer review articles in international scientific journals and 3 book chapters. She supervised 5 PhD thesis and co-supervised 3 and has 2 ongoing full PhD supervisions. She also supervised several MSc dissertations. She received 3 scientific awards and 10 prizes in congress. Participates and/or participated as Principal investigator in 13 projects, including 2 large consortiums: PerMedFH (coordinator) and FH EARLY (WP leader). She also participated, as a member, in 13 projects. She works in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Basic Medicine, Human Genetics and Clinical Medicine (Cardiology and Metabolism). Her main field of research is genetic dyslipidaemia with a special focus on Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) developing and applying methods to identify, functionally characterize and interpret variants found in clinical FH patients and other dyslipidaemia patients. Her research also focuses on the identification of new genes/mechanisms for inherited hypercholesterolaemia.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8843-3799
E-mail: mafalda.bourbon@insa.min-saude.pt

Ana G. Almeida graduated in Medicine from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She obtained her PhD in Medicine/Cardiology at the same institution in 2001. Since 2005, she has been Associate Professor, having achieved Habilitation (Aggregation) in 2010. She is a Senior Consultant of Cardiology at Santa Maria University Hospital – CHULN, Lisbon, where she chairs the Echocardiography and CMR/CT Units, as well as the Valve Heart Clinic.
She is currently Scientific Secretary of CCUL. At the European Society of Cardiology, she is a Fellow and Co-chair of the CMR Certification Board. She also serves as Chair of the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology and CMR/CT of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0360-4363
E-mail: anagalmeida@gmail.com 

Ana Abreu obtained her Medical Degree from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, in 1984, and became a Cardiology Consultant in 2002. She coordinated Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Department of Cardiology of Hospital Santa Marta, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Centro (2004–2017), and since 2018 has been Coordinator of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Cardiology Department of Santa Maria University Hospital/Pulido Valente Hospital, CHULN, Lisbon. She earned her PhD in Cardiology from the Nova Medical School in 2016, with a thesis on the beneficial effects of exercise training in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy.
She is Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa. She served as Chair of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (2015–2017) and as Past-Chair (2018), as well as Chair of the Portuguese Working Group of Nuclear Cardiology (1999–2000), and Chair of the Portuguese Working Group of Exercise Pathophysiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation (2007–2011; 2013–2017). She was also National Coordinator for Prevention of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (2017).

ORCID: 881A-1343-A491
Email: amabreu@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Isabel Coutinho obtained her MD from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1977, and her PhD in Medicine/Cardiology from the same institution in 1994. She completed her residency in Cardiology at the Department of Cardiology, Santa Maria University Hospital – CHULN, Lisbon (1982–1985), and pursued postdoctoral research and a clinical fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York (1985–1988). She also undertook elective training in Nuclear Cardiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (1990 and 1991), supported by grants from Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Since 1998, she has been Consultant Cardiologist at Santa Maria University Hospital, where she coordinates the TTR-V30M Cardiac Amyloidosis Unit. She is Associate Professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine (since 2009) and Principal Investigator at the Cardiovascular Centre of the University of Lisbon (CCUL).
Prof. Coutinho is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), and a member of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, where she served as Vice President (2001–2003). She is also a member of the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Computed Tomography of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology, Magnetic Resonance, and Computed Tomography of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4378-0460
E-mail: cacoutinho@sapo.pt

Daniel Caldeira has obtained his MD degree in 2010 (Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa) and his PhD in 2017 (Medicine/Clinical Pharmacology – Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa). Works as Auxiliary/Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology (2017) and Auxiliary/Assistant Professor of Cardiology since 2018 (Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa). 
He is specialist in Cardiology (2017) and Clinical Pharmacology (2017), both since 2017. Works as Assistant Cardiologist in Cardiology Department, Hospital Santa Maria, CHULN-EPE, Lisboa, Portugal (2018-).
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) since 2018. Member of the Nucleus of Working Group on Thrombosis and Platelets of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (2017-). Member of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (2016-). Coordinator of the Nucleolus of the Young Working Group of Thrombosis of European Society of Cardiology (2018-2019).

The main research areas are: Antithrombotic drugs; Safety of Cardiovascular drugs; Cardiovascular effects of non-cardiovascular drugs; Clinical Trials; Big data use; Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis; Outcomes research. 

ORCID: 0000-0002-2520-5673
E-mail: dgcaldeira@hotmail.com 

Manuela Fiúza attended the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal and graduated in 1981. She did the fellowship of cardiology at Santa Maria Hospital – CHULN EPE, Lisbon and graduated in 1991. She has been working at the Department of Cardiology of Santa Maria Hospital – CHULN EPE, Lisbon where presently coordinates the cardiology outpatient clinic and is responsible for the cardio-oncology program. She is also a senior cardiologist at echocardiography laboratory.
In 2000, received her Ph.D. from Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. While holding a position as Professor of Cardiology, has coordinated several pre- and post- graduated projects and was rewarded with several awards for scientific research.  She is a member of several scientific societies and is fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7742-6195
E-mail: manuela.fiuza@gmail.com

Luís Mendes Pedro, MD, PhD, FEBVS, received his MD (1987) and PhD (2003) from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Since 1997, he has been a specialist in Vascular Surgery with extensive clinical and surgical experience. In 2000, he successfully completed the European Board of Vascular Surgery examinations, becoming a Fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS).
He currently serves as Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery and Introduction to Clinical Medicine at the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa. Clinically, he is Senior Consultant of Vascular Surgery at Santa Maria University Hospital – CHULN, Lisbon, and at Hospital da Luz Torres de Lisboa, and is Director of the Vascular Surgery Department at Santa Maria University Hospital – CHULN.

His main research interests include: i) Vascular ultrasound characterization of the arterial wall; ii) Ultrasonographic and computer-assisted atherosclerotic plaque characterization; iii) Carotid surgery; iv) Synchronous cardiac and carotid surgery; v) Renal revascularization; vi) Aortic dissection; vii) Complex open and endovascular aortic surgery.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4310-9324
E-mail: lmendespedro@gmail.com

Luís Brás-Rosário obtained his PhD in Medicine and Physiology with Distinction and Laudation in 2005, and his Medical Degree in 1988, both from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and, since 2015, has served as Course Director (Regent) for the Instrumentation and Signal Transduction module of the Biomedical Engineering program.
Between 1995 and 1996, he was a Research Fellow in the Cardiovascular Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Rosário is currently a Staff Cardiologist at the Coronary Care Unit, Cardiology Department, Santa Maria University Hospital – CHULN, E.P.E., Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2016, he has been a member of the TACTICS Group – International Alliance for Regenerative Therapies in Cardiovascular Syndromes.
He previously held positions as an Independent Postdoctoral Researcher at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal (2006–2011); and as a Research Fellow at the Autonomic Nervous System Unit, Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon (2002–2006). In 1995, he also worked as a Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK. He is a member of the American Physiological Society (Cardiovascular Section), an International Fellow of the American Heart Association (Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences), and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Within the ESC, he is an active member of the Working Groups on Myocardial Function, Cellular Biology of the Heart, and Cardiovascular Regenerative and Repair Medicine.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0014-1543
E-mail: lsrosario@medicina.ulisboa.pt

João de Sousa obtained his Medical Degree from the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, in 1984, and completed a Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, USA (1989–1991). He is currently Senior Cardiology Consultant, Coordinator of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory (since 2001), and Head of the Invasive Arrhythmia Unit (since 2004) at the Cardiology Department of Santa Maria Hospital – CHULN, Lisbon.

Since 2009, he has been Invited Professor of Cardiology and Medicine at the Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa. He served as President of the Portuguese Association of Arrhythmia, Pacing and Electrophysiology (2007–2009) and as Associate Editor of the Portuguese Journal of Cardiology (2006–2015).

His main research interests include ablation therapy, device therapy for heart failure, and sudden death prevention.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2782-8214
E-mail : labpacing-eef@chln-min.saude.pt

ESC Inmediate Past-President (2018 – 2020), Jeroen Bax is Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab at the Leiden University Medical Center. His main interests include clinical cardiology, heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields. Professor Bax has authored numerous papers and holds several positions in national and international scientific organizations, as well as serving on the editorial boards of many different journals.

José Luis Zamorano is head of the Cardiovascular Department at the Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University Complutense in Madrid and Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Unit at the University Clinic San Carlos, Madrid.

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