Biography

Abílio Reis, MD, PhD was Head of the Unidade de Doença Vascular Pulmonar (UDVP), Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal. Professor Abílio Reis was Invited Associated Professor of Medicine, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Porto, Portugal. He founded and coordinated the Study Group for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases, Portuguese Internal Medicine Society. Dr. Abílio Reis was consultant of the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health to organize the PH National Healthcare Network. He was the chairman of the working group for the 1st national PH guidelines. UDVP is a founding member of the Lung-PH section of European Reference Network for rare and low prevalence diseases, and Dr. Abílio Reis is a member of the PH board (Functional Committee on Registries). He is co-chair of the ERS/CRC PHAROS project and coordinator of the specific project “Coordination of existing (national) registries”. He was the creator of the PAHTool project and the author or co-author of more than 50 peer-review scientific papers.