Duarte Saraiva Martins, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Imaging
Higher Education
- Masters Degree in Medicine from the School of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FML), with a final grade of 18 points (range 0-20) (2005-2011).
- Thesis: “Targeting γδ T-lymphocytes for cancer immunotherapy: from novel mechanistic insight to clinical application”
Postgraduate Education
- Clinical Scholars Research Training I + II at Harvard Medical School Portugal (Mar 2012- Dec 2013).
- Pediatric Cardiology Resident in the Hospital de Santa Cruz (2013 to 2018).
- Visiting Clinical Fellow – Congenital Interventional Cardiology, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille (2017).
- Visiting Clinical Fellow – Pediatric Cardiovascular Imaging, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris (2017 and 2019).
Previous Medical and Scientific Jobs
- Teaching activity:
- Teaching assistant in Neuroanatomy (2007/08).
- Teaching assistant in Pathophysiology (2008/09).
- Associate professor of the Heart and Lung module at Nova Medical School 2021/22 and 2022/23.
- Instructor of Pediatric Advanced Life Support for the American Heart Association: Nov 2015 - 2023
- Lecturer at Masters in Cardiovascular Imaging at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa 2022.
- Research Activity:
- 2006 - Research partnership with Technophage (private corporation at IMM - Instituto de Medicina Molecular)
- 2007 - Research Project “Splicing and aging: effect of the cellular levels of splicing factors” (Cellular Biology Unit - IMM)
- 2008 - Research Project “Identification of novel tumour antigens for γδ T lymphocytes”(Molecular Immunology Unit- IMM)
- Clinical Activity:
- Transport of Neonatal and Paediatric Critical patients (TIP Sul): Apr 2015-Jan 2023
Present job
- Pediatric Cardiologist at Hospital de Santa Cruz, CHLO.
- Areas of activity: cardiac MRI, catheterization laboratory, outpatient clinic, emergency service (cardiac ICU)
- Pediatric Cardiology collaborator at CUF Descobertas:
- Areas of activity: cardiac MRI, outpatient clinic
- Pediatric Cardiology collaborator at Hospital Particular do Algarve:
- Areas of activity: outpatient clinic
- Member of the Organizing Committee for the SCMR/EACVI joint meeting 2024.
Participation in Research Projects
- Basic Research
- 2007 - Research Project “Splicing and aging: effect of the cellular levels of splicing factors” (Cellular Biology Unit - IMM)
- 2008 - Research Project “Identification of novel tumour antigens for γδ T lymphocytes”(Molecular Immunology Unit- IMM)
- 2016 - Generation of human iPSC line from a patient with laterality defects and associated congenital heart anomalies carrying a DAND5 missense alteration (CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal).
- Clinical Research
- Participation in three clinical trials.
- Aortopathy in Transposition of the Great Vessels (since 2017)
- The use of 4D flow imaging in congenital heart disease (since 2017)
- Evaluation of Pediatric Myocarditis by CMR (since 2019)
- Evaluation of Pediatric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by CMR (since 2020)