Ricardo Santos

Ricardo Santos is an integrated researcher of the HIS-EHR group, Thematic Line 3 – Health Data and Decision Sciences & Information Technologies, of CINTESIS.

In 2017, he earned his Doctorate in Clinical Research and Health Services from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) with the thesis “A critical appraisal, development and validation of reference values ​​of fetal growth and birthweight”. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Faculties of Medicine and Sciences of the University of Porto, and is a graduate in Medicine from the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto (ICBAS-UP).

He made the news headlines after he developed new percentile curves for Portuguese children, as well as an application that aims to help parents and health professionals. The results were published in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

He is currently a Guest Professor at the Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision of FMUP, and a Gynaecologist/Obstetrician in the field of Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) working at the Hospital Senhora da Oliveira in Guimarães, where he also holds the position of Assistant of the Clinical Board of Directors.