Biography

*Director of the Nuclear Medicine Department, Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, E.P.E. (SESARAM, E.P.E.), Madeira, Portugal *Responsible for the construction and licensing of the Nuclear Medicine Unit of SESARAM, EPE, between January 12, 2011 and April 14, 2015 - Installation financed by the Genhymape Project belonging to the Research Nucleus of Cardiology of SESARAM, EPE, financed 85% the EU; *Responsible for the installation and operation of the sector for osteodensitometric studies - first public installation of the Autonomous Region of Madeira - Start of operation in March 2014 - until the present; *Responsible for the installation of Nuclear Medicine Unit, organization of the space and the respective work team - Installation license for diagnosis and therapy in hospitalization - sixth installation of the type licensed in Portugal; first installation of this kind in Portugal Insular - license on April 14, 2015, Directorate General of Health, Ministry of Health, Portugal; *Coordinator of Public Unit of Nuclear Medicine - SESARAM, E.PE. - Funchal, Portugal; July 2012 - to date * Has made 80+ oral and poster presentations in International, National and Regional Nuclear Medicine Meetings.

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Research Interest

Cerebral perfusion with HMPAO-99mTc evaluation before and after hyperbaric oxygen therapy in brain acute injury; Radiodine thyroid therapy; Ra-223 therapy in prostate cancer.