Jorge Arsénio Ruivo

Jorge has been Invited Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, since 2016, and a Guest Professor in the Master Degree in Exercise and Well-Being at Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, since 2009. He has been a researcher at the Cardiovascular Centre of the University of Lisbon (CCUL) since 2014. He is a member of the scientific committee of the National Programme for the Promotion of Physical Activity of the Directorate-General of Health. He is also a member of the committee to combat physical inactivity at ECOSEP, Europe. He participates in the Editorial Board and analyses the Sports Medicine Journal inForma. He reviews articles for the Games for Health Journal, the Factores de Risco Journal, BMC Geriatrics and the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention Journal.
Jorge graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, University of Lisbon, in 2004. He did his specific training in Internal Medicine at Santa Maria Hospital - CHULN, EPE, Lisbon, Portugal, where he worked as a hospital assistant in internal medicine until 2019.
Jorge has a postgraduate qualification in Sports Medicine since 2007 from the Portuguese Society of Sports Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. He obtained a Master Degree in Cardiac Rehabilitation in 2015 from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. In 2018, he completed his Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at University College London with doctoral grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Foundation for Science and Technology.