Isabel Leal is a clinical and health psychologist and psychotherapist. PhD in Psychology from the Catholic University of Louvain, she has been a professor at ISPA since 1983 where she is full professor, researcher at the William James Center for Research (R&D) and currently Dean. She developed professional activity within the Ministry of Health from 1979 to 1987 in the Civil Hospitals of Lisbon and then, until 2007, in the Maternity Dr. Alfredo da Costa where he founded and coordinated the Department of Clinical Psychology. She was Advisor to the National Commission to Fight AIDS, Consultant to the "Project to promote Mental Health in Pregnancy and early childhood" of the General Directorate of Health, President of the Portuguese Society of Health Psychology and President of the Jury of the Award Madalena Barbosa of the City Council of Lisbon, which promotes gender equality. His research interests are currently focused on the interface of Health and Psychology, in particular on sexual and reproductive health and on the gender issues and on the adjustment processes at transitions in the life cycle (adolescence, menopause, aging, disease, end of life, etc) . She has published 306 articles in specialized journals, 62 book chapters and 40 published books. She has supervised 9 Pos- Doc, 27 PhD theses and more of 200 Master¿s dissertations.She received 18 awards and or honors. She participated in 23 research projects, 12 of which were coordinated by her. In her professional activities interacted with 218 collaborators in co-authorships of scientific papers. In her curriculum the most frequent terms in the context of her scientific production are: adjustment, elderly, Wellbeing, satisfaction with life, aging, women, sexual response, menopausal symptoms, posttraumatic growth, breast cancer and stress.