MD, specialist in Gastroenterology, has particular interest in Hepatology, in the area of ​​Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver, as well as in Public Health. These areas have a strong relationship with Nutrition, which is another area in which she has been of particular interest. She has been Full Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, since 2017. Her activity includes Pre and Postgraduate education, coordination of a Master's degree in Clinical Nutrition, as well as a Nutrition Discipline of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine. She also collaborates in a Dietetic and Nutrition Discipline of the Health Sciences Degree. She is the Director of the Hepatology Unit of the Department of Gastroenterology of the Santa Maria Hospital as well as the Nutrition Laboratory and University Clinic of Gastroenterology of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon. She has been an EASL EU Policy Adviser since April 2016, dealing with risk factor issues, including food and alcohol policies. Professor Helena Cortez-Pinto was president of the Portuguese Association for the study of the Liver (June 2013-June 2015). She is an associate editor of Liver International and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hepatology. She has published more than 100 scientific articles in journals including JAMA, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, and Liver International.

Isabel Pavão Martins is a neurologist who completed her medical training in Neurology at the Hospital de Sta Maria in Lisbon and also at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. She is currently Associate Professor of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMUL), Investigator at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular and Consultant Neurologist at the Hospital de Sta Maria. She is currently the Director of the Department of Medical Education of FMUL. She was President of the Portuguese Society of Neurology (2008-2010) and President of the Pedagogic Council of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine (2015-2017). Her main research interests are Headache and Behavioral Neurology. She has 150 scientific publications in those fields.

Born in 1974, he graduated in Medicine (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Lisboa; FMUL) in 1998 and became a specialist in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Clinical Pharmacology. His main academic degrees are: Master of Neurosciences (FMUL); Master of Neurological Electrodiagnosis (University of Barcelona); Doctor of Medicine, Discipline of Neurology (FMUL); and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by CIBERNED (Spain Ministry of Health). His main current activities are: Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (FMUL); Deputy Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (FMUL); Coordinator Editor, Cochrane Movement Disorders; Principal Investigator, Clinical Pharmacology Unit (IMM); Board Member, Education working group, European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Chair, Guidelines production group, European Academy Neurology; and President Clinical Pharmacology College (Portuguese General Medical Council). He has published over 200 papers indexed in Medline/Embase. Most relevant award: Scientific Prize of the University of Lisbon.

Paulo Jorge Nicola is a medical doctor, who has interest and experience in a range of clinical and epidemiology research studies. His research interests include also statistics, health informatics, health services, and health policy. He was trained in Clinical Research and Epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic, USA and has led projects and research groups at the Epidemiology Unit of the Institute of Preventing Medicine and Public Health, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). He is also lecturer at the Department of Engineering and Management, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Past relevant experience includes the collaboration on the evaluation of the Portuguese Health System and the Portuguese National Health Plan with World Health Organization-Europe, the coordination of the National Health Plan from 2009-11 and advisor to the Secretary of State Deputy of the Minister of Health from 2011-2015. As a faculty at FMUL, he was responsible for the creation and organization of post-graduate training courses and programs in the area of epidemiology and clinical research methods, namely the Master’s Degree in Epidemiology, teaching, mentoring graduate and degree students.

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Director of the Gastroenterology, Hepatology Service, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, 2018. Associate Professor with Aggregation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMUL). President of the Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology (2019-2021). Member of the College of Gastroenterology of the Ordem dos Médicos. Member of the Advisory Board of the European Liver Patient Association (ELPA). Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases since 2018 . Director of the Center for Palliative Medicine at FMUL, since 2020. Member of the Pedagogical Council of FMUL, since 2011. Medal of Merit of the Ordem dos Médicos, 2015. Chief Editor of the Portuguese Medical Act (2011-2016). 122 articles indexed in PubMed including New England Journal Medicine (4th and 8th author), Gastroenterology, Liver International, Journal Viral Hepatitis, Annals Oncology, Lancet Gastr Hepatol, World J Gastroenterol, Endoscopy, etc. Organizer of 35 meetings including the Digestive Week (National Congress of Gastroenterology) 2017, 2020. Training of 400 hours in health management, communication of bad news, conflicts, quality, auditing, data protection, time management, leadership, coaching, etc.

Rui Lourenço Teixeira holds a master's degree in Medicine. He has been a teacher since 2011, having taught several disciplines of basic and pre-clinical sciences at FMUL. He is also a guest lecturer at the Graduate Program in Higher Education Pedagogy of the Institute of Education of ULisboa. He has worked as a junior researcher in several translational research projects, as well as as a co-investigator in several clinical trials. He is currently an resident-phD student in Medicine-Rheumatology at the Hospital de Santa Maria and a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine. He is the first ambassador of the "Observar e Aprender" Program at the Faculty of Medicine, a program of the University of Lisbon for the inter-peer training of professors from the various organic units of the University. He was a member of the Statutory Assembly and the School Council of our Faculty. He currently is the Portuguese representative at Junior Doctor Network of the World Medical Association.