Rui Miguel Terenas Lança Baptista graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon in 2005 and concluded the Doctoral Program in Health Sciences - Medical Branch in 2016 by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. He completed a Master in Pulmonary Vascular Diseases from the University of Bologna in 2015 and a postgraduate degree in Clinical Research at the Harvard Medical School-Portugal Program (CSRT) from 2012 to 2014. He underwent leadership training from AESE Business School, in Lisbon and quality processes at Baylor University, in Dallas. He did an observership in Cardiology at Hôpital Erasme - Université Libre de Bruxelles, in 2012 and at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, in 2014. He received a scholarship from FCT under the Internal Doctoral program from 2009 to 2012 and is currently the PI of the RIGHT-2H project, funded by FCT, studying right heart failure. He is also a co-investigator of the PORTHOS project, an initiative of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology to study the prevalence of Heart Failure in Portugal. In 2012, he completed his internship in Cardiology, and since then she has worked at the Cardiology Service of the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, with the degree of Assistant. He pursues an active career in clinical research, being a co-investigator in more than 30 industry-sponsored randomized clinical trials in heart failure, diabetes, and pulmonary hypertension. He was a Visiting Assistant in Thoracic and Vascular Pathology from 2008 to 2018 at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, when he became a Visiting Assistant Professor. He supervised 18 master's theses and was the main opponent in 3 doctoral theses, 2 at the University of Porto and 1 at the University of Coimbra. He regularly participates as a trainer in postgraduate training actions for physicians in the areas of heart failure, cardiovascular risk, diabetes, pulmonary hypertension, and pulmonary thromboembolism, has involved more than 1000 physicians in 2019. In addition, he is the national coordinator of the SAVIC program - Advanced Life Support in Heart Failure, training in Portuguese hospitals on how to approach patients with acute heart failure. From a scientific production point of view, he published 68 articles and letters in peer-reviewed journals, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research or American Journal of Cardiology. It has an h-index of 12 with over 500 citations. He participated as a guest speaker at several international congresses, such as the European Society of Cardiology Congress and the Congress of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and national meetings, such as the Portuguese Congress of Cardiology or the Portuguese Congress of Internal Medicine. He participated with more than 200 oral communications and posters in national and international congresses, including the American Heart Association Congress and the World Congress of Cardiology. He is a scientific reviewer of several journals in the cardiovascular area, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Heart, European Journal of Heart Failure and the American Journal of Cardiology. His associative activity included the Juvenile Science Association, where he promoted scientific dissemination activities for the youth, the National Association of Medical Students and, more recently, he was part of the board of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, where he developed scientific dissemination activities in heart failure, with the development of a campaign aimed at the general public called “Signs of the heart. Don't let the trip end too soon”. In its Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological, and artistic-cultural production are: Diastology; Acute coronary syndromes; Treatment; Heart failure; Prognosis; Acute pulmonary embolism; Diabetes; Mortality; Echocardiography.