Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra. Vice-President of the Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. President of Direction of the Centre for Biomedical Law; President of the Institutional Review Board of AIBILI; Member of the Ethics Committee of the National Institute of Legal and Forensic Medicine. International Associate of the Brazilian Institute of Civil Liability Studies; Fellow of ECTIL (European Centre on Tort and Insurance Law - Vienna, Austria); Chair of the Education Committee of the World Association for Medical Law.