Rute Sampaio, PhD, specialist and doctorate in Health Psychology, with several clinical and research works carried out and published in the area of therapeutic adherence in chronic disease, particularly in Sleep, OSA, and Chronic Pain. For more than 10 years, has contributed to the genesis of interventions for the promotion of therapeutic adherence and has integrated several health education and telemedicine projects in the Pneumology-Sleep Laboratory Service of the São João Hospital in Porto.  In 2017, completed a clinical internship at King's College in London in the Adherence Research Group. Currently, Post Doctoral at Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) at Oporto University and responsible for the genesis and development of the Adherence Research Group in Chronic Pain.