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Adalberto Campos Fernandes

Chairman of Cascais International Health Forum and Former Minister of Health

Adelaide Belo

Senior Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine. President of the Portuguese Association for Integrated Care (PAFIC)

Adolfo Mesquita Nunes

Lawyer, partner at Pérez-Llorca

Alberto de la Rosa

President of Ribera Health Group

Alexandra Bento

Former President of Professional Nutritionists' Association

Alexandre Fonseca

Business Executive Advisor

Alexandre Lourenço

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coimbra ULS

Alfonso Vegara

Founder and Honorary President of Fundacion Metropoli Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Alicia de Castro

Lilly Portugal CEO

Álvaro Beleza

President of SEDES

Álvaro Santos Almeida

Portuguese National Health Service Executive Director

Ana Clara Silva

Regional Director for Longevity Policies of the Regional Government of the Autonomous Region of Madeira

Ana João Sepúlveda

President at Age Friendly Portugal

Ana Jorge

Former Health Minister

Ana Marques da Silva

Member of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross Hospital for the 2022-2024

Ana Paula Martins

Health Minister of Portugal

Ana Povo

Secretary of State for Health

Ana Rita Pedro

Researcher at the National School of Public Health

Ana Simões Ferreira

Partner in the Public Law and Environment area at ABREU ADVOGADOS

André Peralta

Deputy Director General of Health

Andrea Telo de Lima

President of Fórum Saúde XXI

António Alvim

Doctor

António Martins da Cruz

Ambassador and former Foreign Minister

António Tavares

Chairman of Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto

Armindo Jacinto

Mayor of Idanha-a-Nova

Artur Miler

Dentist and Lecturer at Fernando Pessoa University

Bárbara Carvalho

Health and Social Director at Cascais City Council

Belmiro Rocha

President of the Portuguese Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (APER)

Bruno Alves

Farmacêutico na DGS

Carla Nunes Semedo

Councillor at Cascais Town Hall since 2021

Carla Paiva

Executive Director of Médecins du Monde

Carlos Carreiras

President of the Cascais City Council

Carlos Catalão

Medical & Health Policy Director

Carlos Cruz

Chairman of Deloitte Portugal

Carlos das Neves Martins

President of ULS Santa Maria

Carlos Galamba

Vice-President of ACSS

Carlos Ribeiro Ferreira

Program Manager at Group Ageas

Carlos Robalo Cordeiro

Full Professor of Pulmonology in Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC)

Carolina Santos

Researcher at the Nova Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center

Catarina Castro

Economist and Financial Markets Analyst

Catarina Galhardo Baptista

Head of Health at NTT Data Portugal

Cátia Sousa Pinto

Head for Global Digital Health & Public Health Specialist (Portugal)

Cláudia Furtado

Information and Strategic Planning Division (DIPE) of INFARMED, I.P.

Cláudia Quaresma

Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology - FCT NOVA

Cristina Vaz de Almeida

President of the Portuguese Society for Health Literacy (SPLS)

Cristina Vaz Tomé

Secretary of State for Health Management

Dario Ligeiro

Senior Clinical Scientist | Molecular Genetics

David Magboulé

CEO LabToMarket

Débora Miranda

PaRIS Communication Manager at the Directorate-General for Health

Delfim Rodrigues

National Coordinator of the SNS Home Hospitalization Program

Duarte Tude Graça

Consultant Physician at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon

Eduardo Consiglieri Pedroso

CEO Médis

Ema Paulino

President of National Association of Pharmacies

Eric King

GSK Europe Vice-President & Portugal General Manager

Ewout Van Ginneken

Director of European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Fernando Batista

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Public Markets, Real Estate and Construction, I.P.

Fernando Leal da Costa

Former Health Minister

Filipa Landeiro

Researcher in Marketing and Innovation

Filipe Charters de Azevedo

Presidente of Associação Portuguesa de Contribuintes

Filipe Costa

Professor in Management & VBHC at Nova SBE Exec. Education

Filipe de Botton

Logoplast CEO

Filipe Ganhão

Partner at Deloitte Portugal in the Technology Consulting area

Filipe Martins

Manager for Product and Customer Operations at Vodafone

Filipe Quinaz

Entrepreneur and Computer Engineer

Francisco Miranda Duarte

Senior Consultant in the health area

Francisco Pavão

Director of International Relations Coordination of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health

Frederico Raposo

Assistant Professor at the European University

Germano de Sousa

Clinical Pathologist Administrator and Founder of CMLGS

Giovanni Viganò

Senior consultant and public policy expert; Professor of Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences

Gladys Caldeira

General Practitioner

Gonçalo Aroeira Gonçalves

Master's student in Informatics and Computer Engineering at IST

Gonçalo Sarmento

Coordinator of the Oliveira de Azeméis Geriatric Center of the ULS Entre Douro e Vouga

Guilherme Monteiro Ferreira

Market Access & External Affairs Director of GSK

Gustavo Jesus

Psychiatrist

Hans Kluge

WHO Regional Director for Europe

Hélder Mota Filipe

President of the Order of Pharmacists

Helena Canhão

Director of NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Helena Freitas

University of Coimbra

Helena Monteiro

President of ADBB - Associação de Diabéticos da Beira Baixa

Hugo Martinho

Medical & Regulatory Affairs Director at AstraZeneca Portugal

Hugo Soares

Science Manager at AICIB

Inês Fronteira

Professor at NOVA/ENSP

Inês Marques

General Practice Doctor

Inês Oom de Sousa

President of the Santander Foundation

Isabel Fernandes

Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology and Oncobiology at the Nova Medical School

Isabel Vaz

Luz Saúde CEO

Jaime Ferreira

Agrobio

Jaime Melância

Chairman of Plataforma Saúde em Diálogo

Joana Afonso

CEO and Founder of Careceiver

Joana Camilo

Executive Director at CREATING HEALTH – Research and Innovation Funding

João Cerqueira

Clinical Director of the Braga Academic Clinical Center

João Conde

Professor, and Vice-Dean for Research at NOVA Medical School

João Condeixa

Director of External Affairs and Board Member at Johnson & Johnson

João da Silva

Journalist

João Domingo

Founder and CEO at MedicineOne, SA

João Eurico da Fonseca

Director of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon

Johan Van Eldere

Secretary-General of the European University Hospital Alliance

Jorge Moreira da Silva

UN Under-Secretary-Geral and Executive and Director of UNOPS

José Albino

President of RESPIRA

José Bento

President of Hospital de Cascais

José Chen Xu

Postdoctoral Researcher at IS Global and a Research Fellow at Lancet Countdown in Europe

José Dinis Silva

Director of the Medical Oncology Service at IPO do Porto

José Fragata

President - National Council of Academic Clinical Centers

José Maria Pereira

Senior Associate Lawyer at Abreu Advogados | TMT and Data Protection

José Mendes Ribeiro

Executive Director of Walk-in Clinics Portugal SA.

Katerina Drakos

Assistant researcher at University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin

Kris Vanhaecht

Professor at Leuven University, Belgium

Lorena Boix Alonso

Deputy Director General for Health European Union

Luís Camacho

Româ Azul Association

Luís de Almeida Sampaio

Ambassador

Luís João

Head of Public Sector and Healthcare | Google Cloud

Luísa Ferreira de Almeida

Quinta do Arneiro

Manuel Delgado

Health Consultant

Manuel Durães Rocha

Co-coordinating Partner of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology area of ABREU ADVOGADOS

Manuel Lemos

President of União das Misericórdias Portuguesas

Margarida Balseiro Lopes

Minister of Youth and Modernization

Margarida Matos

Full Professor at the Faculty of Human Motricity, University of Lisbon

Maria de Belém Roseira

Former Health Minister of Portugal

Maria do Carmo Silveira

Health Strategic Orchestration na Médis, Grupo Ageas Portugal

Maria do Céu Machado

President Medical Sciences Society of Lisbon

Maria Eugénia Brandulo

President of Decilo Bailando & TangoTerapia PT

Maria Rita Dionísio

Director of Medical Affairs and Scientific Engagement at Novartis Innovative Medicines

Mariana Silva

Nova Medical School

Mário Amorim Lopes

Member of Parliament

Markus Mauerer

Head of immunotherapy / ImmunoSurgery at the Champalimaud Foundation

Marta Passadouro

Ecosystem Lead Portugal at EIT Health InnoStars

Marta Sousa Pires

Executive Director of the Ronald McDonald Children's Foundation

Marta Zegre Amorim

Specialist in Medical Genetics

Maurício Alves

Promoter of Digital Transformation projects

Mécia Fonseca

Value & Access Head at Novartis

Micaela Monteiro

Chief Medical Officer for digital transformations and Clinical Director CUF Digital, CUF Hospitais & Clínicas

Michaela Bertero

Strategy Director at IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

Miguel Amador

Chief Innovation Officer at Complear

Miguel Guimarães

Member of Parliament

Miguel Lemos

Chairman of the Board of ULS Loures Odivelas

Miguel Xavier

Full Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health

Milton Sousa

Associate Professor at Nova SBE

Mourad Aboubakr

Country President da Novartis, Portugal

Neuza Teixeira

Country Medical Director GSK in Portugal

Nuno André da Silva

Deputy Director at Hospital da Learning Health (Luz Saúde)

Nuno Delgado

A 6th Dan Judo coach

Nuno Marques

Specialist in Active and Healthy Aging Action

Nuno Piteira Lopes

Deputy Mayor of Cascais

Oddrun Samdal

Professor in Health Promotion and Psychology at Bergen University

Olga Gonçalves

Public Sector & Legal Advisor

Orlando Monteiro da Silva

Member of Economic and Social Council

Óscar Gaspar

President of Portuguese Association of Private Hospitalization

Paloma Veiga

Graduated in Psychology

Patrícia Borges

Public Sector & Health Director, NTT Data

Patrícia Calado

Head of Clinical Innovation Portugal at NTT DATA

Paula Videira

Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology

Paulo Dimas

CEO of the Center for Responsible AI

Paulo Gonçalves

President of RD-Portugal, Union of Rare Disease Associations of Portugal

Paulo Nuno Vieira

Vice-Rector for the Academic Model of the European University

Paulo Santos

Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto

Paulo Sousa

Director of the Department of Health Strategies at the National School of Public Health - NOVA University Lisbon

Paulo Teixeira

Country Manager for Pfizer Portugal

Pedro Delgado

Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Senior Atlantic Fellow of Health Equity

Pedro Ferreira

Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle Health

Pedro Garcia Silva

PhD in Neuroscience

Pedro Gouveia

Breast surgeon, medicalXR researcher and futurist at Champalimaud Foundation

Pedro Matos Soares

Principal Researcher Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL)

Pedro Serra Pinto

Founder and executive director of Fórum Saúde XXI

Pedro Teixeira

Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho and researcher in the field of population health

Peter van der Voort

Academic Director & Professor Health Care Intensivist, PhD, MD, MSc

Qurratul ayn Issa

Nutrition Science student at the European University

Rafaela Timóteo

Researcher at the Champalimaud Foundation's Digital Surgery Lab

Raquel Chantre

Advisor to the Board of Directors of Unidade Local de Saúde São José, E.P.E.

Ricardo Constantino

Partner & Head of Health & Public Sector da NTT DATA Portugal

Ricardo Encarnação

Medical Director at Roche Farmacêutica

Ricardo Mestre

Former Secretay of State for Health

Ricardo Mexia

Public Health Doctor and Epidemiologist

Ricardo Raposo

Manager Pre-Sales and Solutions Design at Vodafone

Rita Mateus

Senior Project Manager at Astellas Pharma

Rita Sá Machado

General Director of Health

Rita Veloso

Executive Member of the ULS Santo António Board of Directors

Rogério Campos Henriques

Chief Executive Officer at Fidelidade

Ronald DePinho

Former MD Anderson President, Public Health Advocate, Entrepreneur, Scientist

Rosário Trindade

Corporate Affairs & Market Access Director at Astrazeneca Portugal

Rui Cortes

Healthcare Improvement Expert at Lean Health Portugal

Rui Dias Alves

Managing Partner at HCapital – SCR

Sandra Cavaca

Chairman of the Board of SPMS

Sandra Martins

Associate Professor at Universidade Europeia and Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of Exercise Physiologists

Sara Gancho

Assistant Professor at IADE

Sébastien Seze

Director at Telecom Design

Sílvia Garcia

Coordinator of the AI Task Force at APDSI

Sofia Athayde

Councilor of the Lisbon City Council (CML)

Sónia Dias

Director of NOVA School of Public Health NOVA University of Lisbon

Sónia Ferreira

Founder and CEO of BestHealth4U

Sónia Vide

Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto

Tamara Milagre

President of the Patient Association EVITA

Tânia Gaspar

Coordinator of the Portuguese Laboratory for Healthy Workplaces

Tânia Soeiro

Nutritionist in the Health Promotion and Well-being Division of Cascais City Council

Teresa Leite

Clinical psychologist, music therapist, university lecturer

Teresa Santos

Director of Health Science College of European University

Theodoros Koutrobas

Professor at UCLouvain (Belgium) and Director General of the European Council of the Liberal Professions (CEPLIS)

Tiago Baleizão

R&I Business Unit Director at AstraZeneca

Tiago Botelho

President of the Board of Directors of the Algarve Local Health Unit

Tomás Lavin Peixe

Head of Venture Capital at Lince Capital

Tony Young

National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England

Vasco Fonseca

Consultant in medical oncology at Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental

Xavier Barreto

President of APAH