Andreia Albuquerque MD PhD, is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a special interest on early anal cancer detection and anal cancer prevention. She has developed an Anal Neoplasia Clinic in Porto and also worked as a Researcher and Honorary Consultant at the Homerton Anal Neoplasia Service in London and as a Consultant at St. James's University Hospital, Leeds (UK). She has more than 70 papers published in peer-review journals, with 17 papers published as first author on anal precancerous lesions including the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She is currently a member of the Precancerous lesions and Early cancer management Research Group from the Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto. She has served as an International anal Neoplasia Society (IANS) Board of Directors member and as a Co-chair of the IANS Spanish-Portuguese Task Force. She is currently an Affiliate Board member of the International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS), a member of Early Career Working Group of IPVS and a member of IPVS Social Media Task Force.