• Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Gulbenkian Programme for Knowledge)
• Professor of Pathology, University of Lisbon (-2013)
• Director, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Lisbon), 2001-03
• Director, Department of Pathology, Lisbon Cancer Center, 1985-2001
• President, Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa, 2003-05, Sociedade Portuguesa de Anatomia Patológica, 1997-99, Sociedade Portuguesa de Senologia, 2004-06
• Full Member, Academia de Medicina de Portugal, Associated Member, Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España, Real Academia de Medicina de Granada, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
• President, National Council of Bioethics for Life Sciences, 2016-
• Vice-President, Ethics Comission, Champalimaud Foundation (-2016)
• Chair, Scientific Council for Health and Life Sciences, FCT 2013-4
• Award Gold Medal, Ministry of Health