ANA CATARINA ÂNGELO is a Shoulder and Elbow Orthopedic surgeon based in Lisbon, Portugal, she is co-founder of SHOULDER.PT and member of the shoulder and elbow units of Hospital dos SAMS de Lisboa and Clínica Cirúrgica Joaquim Chaves Saúde in Lisbon and Carcavelos, Portugal.

She completed her master’s degree in Medicine at Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, and her orthopedics and traumatology residency in Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental. During residency she completed international fellowships in shoulder and in elbow surgery centers in France and Belgium. Between 2014 and 2019 she was actively involved in the academic training of medical students from NOVA medical school, in Lisbon. 

National and international lecturer, with several communications as invited faculty in national and international events. During her career she has been devoted to clinical and biomechanical investigation in shoulder surgery, with several papers published in scientific peer reviewed national and international journals. 

Scientific reviewer for several international peer-reviewed Q1 papers including AJSM, OJSM, JSES, KSSTA, JEO and Clinical Biomechanics since 2017.

She is an active member of the Portuguese Society of Shoulder an Elbow surgery, the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) since 2017, invited member of the communication committee of the European Shoulder Associates (ESA) between 2020-2022 and current member of the ESSKA-ESA scientific committee. Since 2021 Ana Catarina Ângelo has become an active member of the International Society of Arthroscopy Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) and a current member of the ISAKOS Communication committee. Since 2022 she has also become an ordinary member of SECEC and was elected member of the SECEC membership committee in 2023.