Carlos Francisco Silva, MD

Higher Education

• Degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (2006)

Postgraduate Education

• Radiology Internship at Hospital de Santa Maria/Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, E.P.E. (2008 to 2012).
• Observership in Thoracic and Diagnostic Cardiovascular Radiology, at Ronald Reagan Medical Center - University of California, Los Angeles, USA. (2012).
• European Diploma in Radiology (EDiR) obtained in 2013 (European Society of Radiology)
• Research Fellowship in Thoracic Radiology (sponsored by the European Society of Radiology), at Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg / Thoraxklinik, Germany (2017/2018)

Present job

• Member of the Board of Directors of the College of Radiology of the Portuguese Medical Association (2021-2023)
• Coordinator of the Management and Quality Section in Radiology of the Portuguese Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (2021/23)
• Member of the Quality Group of the Portuguese Association of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine (since 2019)
• Hospital Assistant of Radiology at Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal E.P.E (since 2014)
• Reviewer of the journal “Clinical Imaging” (ISSN 0899-7071) (since 2012)

Previous Medical and Scientific Functions

• Attendance of several national and international courses and congresses within the scope of Diagnostic General Radiology (Thoracic, Vascular, Abdominal-Pelvic, Breast and Musculoskeletal)
• Publication of 9 scientific articles indexed in PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Carlos+Francisco+Silva)
• Guest speaker at National and International Congresses, Courses and Webinars (https://youtu.be/1OEtoPII1TQ; https://youtu.be/1OadpDuMvNc)
• Author and editor of the world's first book on Value-Based Radiology (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-31555-9)

Participation in Research Projects

• Value-based Radiology/Healthcare
• Interdisciplinary research on Interstitial Lung Diseases / Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases, with emphasis on the use of the CALIPER software in the prognosis of fibrotic diseases (https://youtu.be/yXBJsXaw6BE)
• Therapeutic response evaluation to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in lung cancer using Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography (CT)
• Detection and analysis of pulmonary nodules on CT using Artificial Intelligence aid