Patient representative. Electromechanical Engineer, post-graduation in Business Insurance Management, President of the Board of Directors of Europacolon Portugal, an association for the support of oncology digestive patients, since 2007. Consultant at Europacolon International. "Digestive Cancer Europe". 1^st alternate member of the Portuguese National Health Council. Founding Member of the WPCC, World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition, USA. Founding Member of Pancreatic Cancer Europe, UK. Participation and intervention in several national and international conferences in the area of Oncology, General Health Care, Personal and Organizational Development and Support to Civil Society. Volunteer of the LPCC, in the IPO Porto, in the hospitalization unit, from 1997 to 2016. Co-author of “Care-at-Home” with Raymond Aitken, which aims to provide civil societies with tools for implementing comprehensive, community-based care for chronic, oncological and/or convalescent patients.