Prof.Júlio César Rocha,

Assistant Professor
NOVA MEDICAL SCHOOL | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT

Nutritionist, PhD
Reference Centre of Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Unidade local de Saúde de São José, PT

Researcher
Center for Health Technology and Services Research, PT

Júlio César Rocha is a Nutritionist, with a post graduate qualification in Clinical Nutrition from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences – University of Porto (UP) and he has also a PhD in Metabolism, at the Faculty of Medicine, UP.

He has been working in the field of inborn metabolic diseases since 2003. He is Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School teaching in the field of Nutrition and Metabolism. He is also Nutritionist member of the clinical team at the Reference Centre of Inherited Metabolic Diseases at Unidade local de Saúde de São José and he is a researcher at CINTESIS (Center for Health Technology and Services Research), at the Faculty of Medicine, UP.

He is council member of the SSIEM (Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism) and Chair of the Dieticians Group of the SSIEM (SSIEM-DG).

He is also member of the working group of the European Phenylketonuria Guidelines.

He is author of more than 50 international, indexed, scientific publications and he has done more than 90 oral presentations/lectures/conferences in more than 12 different countries.