It is hard for me to choose a primary work at this stage, but I'd say teacher of Evidence-based Practice and researcher, at this time, at NOVA Medical School (Lisbon) - pre and post graduate teaching. I also collaborate with other Universities in this role. I also work as a critical appraisal of scientific evidence/scientific consultant at INFARMED (Portugal's Health Technologies Assessment Agency) and Direção-Geral de Saúde (Portugal's Health Authority). I am doing a PhD in Public Health. I still work part-time as a Family Doctor/General Practitioner in Lisbon (my background). I am also a composer and musician of portuguese indie pop.

I hope to expand my work with Evidence-based Practice from Health to other areas of knowledge, and help promote knowledge translation into regenerative, science-based interventions for a better world. I hope to continue to be a learner throughout life.

I hope to include regenerative thinking to help reformulate science-based practices (which includes 3 main pillars: best available evidence, context/practitioner and patient/client/community). I am helping our team at NOVA to develop a knowledge center from which we can operate to sustain our practices and collaborate with more external partners.

I want to increase my meditation practice and expand my capacity for responding instead of reacting. I hope to continue to heal my emotional wounds and accept myself (and others) as imperfect and beautiful beings. I also feel this course can help my change some negative thought patterns into more positive and regenerative views that will increase my personal resilience and clarity.

I feel the need to grow my capacity for developing projects and promoting team growth, as this is a role I might play in the near future. Also, as a team coordinator at INFARMED and DGS (but also being managed by a director) I feel some challenges related to managing tension and conflict between team members.

I have studied my whole life, and hope to continue to do so. 🙂 My parents invested in my formal education, and as an adult I have kept investing in personal education and development, either formal or informal. I try to keep a sound but flexible sleep, exercise, meditation routine. I try to keep nurturing my social relationships and my relationship with transcendence.

Many. I have studied (formally or informally) Medical Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Philosophy, Music, Buddhism, Sustainability, Economics, Indigenous Knowledge, and recently have started to study Conscientiousness from the perspective of different knowledge areas. I amI have been very influenced by the work of Socrates, Emmanuel Kant, Bertrand Russel, Karl Popper, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Goleman, David Sackett, Richard Thaler, Rolando Toro, Hans Rosling, among others.

I still need some clarity in this area. I used to see life in a Humanist and anthropocentric way. Currently I try to see life more and more as composed of several nested systems: humans as a small fraction of life, which in its place is a small fraction of the Cosmos. When I started meditating for longer periods and deepened my awareness of my own consciousness, I began to have a perception of a spiritual dimension I still can't process or understand, and I feel it is changing my life philosophy.