Cristina Granja Coordinates RISE-Health’s Thematic Line 4 – Hospital Care & Clinical Outcomes. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) and specialised in Anesthesiology, completing her Doctoral studies in Intensive Care at the University of Porto in 2005. She has been working in Intensive Care since 1992.

Currently, Cristina Granja is an Guest Associate Professor (Surgery and Physiology) at FMUP, Director of SIMFMUP – Pluridisciplinar Centre of Simulation at FMUP, and Consultant in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, responsible for the post-operative area of the Department of Anesthesiology of the Hospital of São João. 

As the Principal Investigator of the research group CriticalMed – Critical Care & Emergency Medicine of CINTESIS, she coordinated the CINTESIS hub at the University of Algarve (UAlg), where she had been an Invited Full Professor and responsible for the education area of Medicine for Critically Ill Patients amongst 2013 and 2019. She was also Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Room of the Hospital de Faro, Algarve.  

With more than 40 articles published in national and international journals, Cristina Granja is also the Coordinator of the Study Group on Analgesia, Sedation, and Delirium of the Portuguese Society of Intensive Care and the Portuguese Society of Anesthesiology, a reviewer for several journals in the field of critical care, emergency and anesthesiology and Founder and President at Salva-Vidas, an association for training on Cardiorespiratory Resuscitation (CPR).