Maria Teresa Corga de Barros Lucas Dionísio, MD, is a paediatric cardiologist and a paediatric intensivist senior clinician in a Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Coimbra Paediatric Hospital – Portugal. She is member of a pediatric and neonatal critical care transport team. She is also member of the board of the Portuguese Society of Paediatric Intensive Care.
She is responsible for implementing neonatal and paediatric pulmonary ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit since 2011 and diaphragmatic ultrasound since 2017.
She is coordinator and trainer of several neonatal and paediatric ultrasound courses.
She has been part of Portugal National Institute of Medical Emergency pool of trainers since 2017, as a training expert in the following areas:

• Paediatric and Obstetric Emergency
• Transport of the Critically Ill patients
• Paediatric Advanced Life Support
• Paediatric Module (training for pre-hospital emergency technicians).

Publication of articles in scientific journals. Reviewer of articles for Acta Médica Portuguesa and Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics. Her research interests are lung, cardiac and diaphragmatic ultrasound.