Dr. Caldeira is a palliative care specialist with the South Shore Palliative Care Team in Nova Scotia. She graduated from the University of Sao Paulo in 2008 and practiced family medicine in Brazil before immigrating to Canada in 2012. She has worked in family medicine, long-term care, geriatrics, and subacute hospital medicine in Saskatchewan and Ontario from 2014 to 2020, and then completed a clinical fellowship in Palliative Care at University Health Network (Toronto) in 2021. She currently practices palliative care exclusively and, since July 2025, has served as Medical Director for the hospice beds at Fishermen’s Memorial Hospital in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.