Paediatrician, professor of Paediatrics at the Lisbon School of Medicine and advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. She was president of Infarmed, director of the Paediatrics Department at Hospital de Santa Maria, clinical director at the Lisbon North University Hospital Centre, High Commissioner for Health, president of the National Commission for Maternal Health, Children and Adolescents, president of the College of Paediatrics at the Portuguese Medical Association and part of the Birth Commission and the Working Group for the Child Agenda. She has trained in Neonatology and Management of Health Institutions.