Dulce Brito obtained her medical degree at Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Medicine, in 1982. She specialized in internal medicine, emergency medicine and cardiology, obtaining most of her learning and training in these areas at Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria (Lisbon, Portugal), currently Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (CHULN). Later, she developed her PhD thesis in the area of Cardiomyopathies at the same Faculty, acquiring a PhD. degree in 2007. She serves as Invited Assistant Professor of Cardiology (Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Medicine) since 2007, and currently also as member of the Board of the Pedagogic Council (2018-) and member of the Ethics Committee (2021-). Dulce Brito is cardiology consultant, head of the Myocardial Diseases Unit and of the inpatient-Unit at the Cardiology Department, CHULN, and coordinator of the Heart Failure and Telemonitoring Program. She is a Researcher at the Cardiovascular Center of the University of Lisbon (CCUL) and Leader of a research team in the areas of Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies. She has participated in 21 international clinical studies in these fields, many of them for therapeutic research in Heart Failure, in general as Principal Investigator (PI) at her center. She organized or was member of the organizing/scientific committee of over 80 congresses or other scientific meetings, supervised or was part of the Jury of several Theses, Masters or PhDs. She is part of the Scientific Council of Biobanco- IMM, CAML, Scientif Advisor of AIDFM CETERA (Academic consulting research organization), and is part of the technical-scientific council of AADIC (Association for Support to Patients with Heart Failure). At the Ministry of Health, she was an invited expert for planning the Heart Failure organization in Portugal (2018-2019). She is currently (2018-) member of the Board of the College of Cardiology of the Portuguese Medical Association. At the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (PSC), she held several positions since 1997 to present. She was chair of the Working Group (WG) of Cardiovascular Therapy (1997-1999), chair of the WG of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases (2009-2013), and developed the first national registries on Myocardial Diseases. She was elected Secretary-General of the PSC (2007-2009), Vice-President (2013-2015), and President of the PSC congress (2015). She was member of the Board of the WG of Heart Failure (2015-2019), member of the executive committee of the Portuguese Registry of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2011-) and the National Coordinator of the Portuguese Registry of Myocarditis. At the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) she is Fellow since 2008, member of the WG on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases, and member of the Heart Failure Association (HFA). She was a member of the Nucleus of National Societies of the HFA (2011-2014) and member of the Scientific Committee of the ESC Congress Program (2014-2016). Dulce Brito is part of the Editorial Board of the Portuguese Journal of Cardiology since 2016, and is currently Associate Editor (2019-). She is reviewer for several national and international journals, published 118 scientific papers (full-papers), several books or book chapters, presented more than 150 research papers (published abstracts), and was a guest speaker or chairperson in more than 300 national and international scientific meetings.