Duarte Saraiva Martins, MD

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)