Ana Edra Quaresma is an Adjunct Professor at The Superior School of Health of the Portuguese Red Cross and at the Polytechnic Superior Institute of Coimbra since 2016. She is a Senior Cardiac Sonographer at Hospital Garcia de Orta, a integrated researcher of the Laboratory for Social Adversity and Inequalities in Health at ITR, in the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, and a PhD student in the Doctoral Program in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. She graduated in Cardiopneumology in 2004 with the thesis "Haemodialysis vs Peritoneal Dialysis - most frequent echocardiographic findings". She holds a master’s degree in public health from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra since 2010, with the thesis "Cardiac evaluation in the neurological patient - Clinical and therapeutic implications". She also obtained the Title of Specialist Professor in Cardiopneumology in 2020. Her field of clinic interest is cardiac ultrasonography and image diagnose in cardiology. Her field of research has been the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, from diagnosis to prevention. In the present, her research work within the scope of her doctoral thesis is part of the relationship between social epidemiology and cardiovascular diseases in Portuguese people with at least 60 years of age; in the form of the assessment of various indicators of social vulnerability and the development of cardiovascular disease.