Luís Pinho Costa

Luís Pinho Costa is currently Clinical Lead at Tonic App, a digital health company that provides medical doctors in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and soon the United Kingdom, with a 360º platform equipped with a virtual assistant based on generative artificial intelligence. He obtained a Master’s degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Porto in 2011 and specialized in Family Medicine in 2017. In 2022, he completed a doctoral course in Health Data Science, with a specialization in Intelligent Health Data Analysis, at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto. Previously, he worked as a medical professional in the Portuguese National Health System for eight and a half years, served as a collaborator at the Department of Interns and Young Family Doctors of the Portuguese Association of Family Medicine, and was an elected member of the Executive Board of the European Young Family Doctors Movement. He chaired the scientific committee for the fifth conference of the European Young Family Doctors Movement. He is the author of ten articles in scientific journals and co-author of two book chapters on the use of digital technologies in primary healthcare. He was a co-founder of a global digital network of Family Doctors and an international peer-to-peer discussion group based on the Balint methodology. He was also a member of a working group for the creation of a Network of Sentinel Units within the National Association of Family Health Units (USF-AN).