Medical Doctor (MD PhD). Specialist in Psychiatry. Professor of Medicine at University of Lisbon, Faculty of Medicine. Researcher in the field of pathophysiological intersections between mood and cardiovascular disease. PhD degree with summa cum laude; thesis entitled "Pathophysiology of mood disorders and common pathways with heart failure". Former Psychiatry Fellow at University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada; Former Clinical Research Fellow at Advanced Medical Research Institute of Canada and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON, Canada