Research therapeutic radiographer
The Royal Marsden hospital, ICR, UCLH, RTTQA, United Kingdom
I qualified as a radiation therapist (RTT) in 2008 at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saude in Lisbon (ESTeSL), where I am originally from. I immediately started working at Hospital de Santa Maria and completed an self-funded MSc programme also at ESTeSL in 2011. In 2012, I decided to embrace a new challenge and moved to London. Since then, I have had the fantastic opportunity to work in dosimetry planning and specialising in radiotherapy clinical trials, in the National Radiotherapy Trials Quality Assurance (RTTQA) group since 2015.
In 2019 I was awarded one of the most prestigious funding fellowships, from the National Institute of Health and Care Research, to embark on my research project and PhD at the Royal Marsden and Institute if Cancer Research, researching dose-volume constraints and planning strategies to improve soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities toxicities. I mainly work in sarcoma, lung and head and neck radiotherapy clinical trials. My PhD is planned to finish in 2024.
Since 2021, I also started a part-time position as a Research and Development RTT at the proton beam and radiotherapy centres at University College London Hospitals, where I have the pleasure to been successful in acquiring funding to start my own research group, looking at the development of patient reported outcome measures.
I am an active member of the ESTRO RTT and EPTN committees.
