Paulo Sousa is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Maxdata. Maxdata develops healthcare software solutions (Clinidata® software) for more than 30 years, having a strong presence in the largest Portuguese public hospitals in different areas and laboratories, namely, electronic requisition, clinical pathology, anatomic pathology, immunohematology (blood banking), epidemiologic surveillance (Healthcare Associated Infections) and responsibility terms management. Clinidata software is also present in a significative amount of private laboratories, including reference laboratories integrated in international groups. He has more than 30 publications in international journals, conferences and workshops, and he is co-author of one book. He was an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of LisbonFaculty of Sciences, where he lectured many courses and was a co-instructor at the CMU/FCUL MSc in Information Security. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science (Informatics) from the University of Lisbon and a Licenciatura in Computer Science from the same university. He was ranked best computer science student in 2000 and 2001, and his PhD work was awarded with the IBM Scientific Prize in 2007. Paulo Sousa was a member of the LaSIGE laboratory and the Navigators research group, where he was involved in several international and national research projects related to real-time, intrusion tolerance and security, including the CORTEX, HIDENETS and CRUTIAL EC-IST projects, and the ReSIST NoE.

 clinical pathology, anatomic pathology, immunohematology