Professor
Professor Catedrático
MD, PhD
Pedro Póvoa is Dean and Full Professor of Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine at NOVA Medical School, and Coordinator of the ICU4 at São Francisco Xavier Hospital (ULSLO), in Lisbon, Portugal.
With over 270 indexed publications, 44 book chapters, and 3 books, his work has been cited more than 10,000 times, achieving an h-index of 50 (Scopus, July 2025) and he was recognized among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in Intensive Care Medicine (Ioannidis, PLOS Biology, 2024).
Pedro Póvoa has worked in clinical research, mainly in critical care medicine since mid 1990s. His current research is mainly in severe infections, sepsis and biomarkers, and his group has published several reviews and original research in these fields.
His work in several areas of critical care medicine namely community-acquired pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia, bloodstream infections, COVID19, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (pk/pd), biomarkers of infection has been recognised worldwide. In 2003, he demonstrated for the first time that the kinetics of C-reactive protein (CRP), namely its relative variations, were useful in monitoring clinical course. He also introduced the concept of patterns of CRP-ratio response.
Member of national and international scientific councils (CEIC, FCT, ESICM), Pedro has held clinical and academic coordination roles in Portugal, Denmark, and Brazil.
As Professor at NOVA Medical School, Pedro has been responsible for several curricular units, and he participated in the 2011 implementation of the new curriculum and the creation of a new teaching area in emergency and critical care medicine. He is part of the Faculty General Council since 2020, and of the Scientific Council since 2021.
Pedro Póvoa is Principal Investigator at NOVA Medical School of the "Immune Dysregulation, Infection, and Antibiotics Resistance" research group. He also holds a position as Adjunct Professor in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Research Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, OUH Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, since 2017.