Jose graduated from the University of Lisbon in 2005 and completed a cardiology residency at the University of Zurich, becoming an ECVIM-CA Diplomate in 2014 and an RCVS Specialist in Cardiology in 2015. He worked as a Senior Lecturer in Zurich before completing a PhD on feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at the RVC and a Master’s in Cardiovascular Pathology at the University of Padua. He is currently Professor and Head of Cardiology at the University of Cambridge. His main clinical and research interests include feline cardiomyopathies and cardiac imaging. Jose co-hosts The Animal Heartbeat, the first podcast dedicated to veterinary cardiology