Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, graduated in Medicine in 1996, earned his Doctorate Degree in 2005 and Agregação in 2009 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). He is Senior Consultant and Head of the Gastroenterology Department of the IPO-Porto / Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center (Porto.CCC) and Guest Full Professor at FMUP (since 2014) and Group Leader and Sub-Diretor in RISE@CI-IPO (Health Research Network @ Research Center - IPO) His research interests focus on improving early diagnosis and noninvasive management of gastrointestinal tumors, leading several inter-institutional national and international projects with over 330 scientific articles published (HI=52). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD programme in Clinical and Health Services Research at FMUP. He was President of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (2021-2023) and he is currently Treasurer of World Endoscopy Organization and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Endoscopy. He won the BIAL Award in Clinical Medicine in 2018 and co-authored the Pfizer Award in 2016.