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Day: 26 October 2023

President at the 20th anniversary of the Jean Piaget School of Health - Vila Nova de Gaia

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President António Lopes took part in the ceremony commemorating the 20 years of the Jean Piaget School of Health - Vila Nova de Gaiaon 26 October.

 

In his speech at the Opening Session, he called it essential for the Order of Physiotherapists to collaborate with Higher Education Institutions with accredited courses in order to fulfil its statutory duty to "promoting the development of the scientific field of physiotherapy and its teaching".

He added that, as the bodies responsible for the degree courses that give access to the physiotherapy profession, higher education institutions take on the responsibility of placing competent and duly qualified professionals on the labour market, while the Order is responsible for granting the professional title and, therefore, defining the professional profile and quality standards for the provision of autonomous care, within the required ethical values.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Escola Superior de Saúde Jean Piaget - Vila Nova de Gaia, the President took the opportunity to announce that work is underway to create an assessment and accreditation system for postgraduate training, in association with the creation of a framework of specialities, ensuring that everyone will be called upon to collaborate in the public discussion of these projects, as happened with the Regulation of the Physiotherapist Actwith the Code of Ethics and with Disciplinary Regulation.

The institution currently has a Physiotherapy degree programme, among others.

Order of Physiotherapists and Health Regulatory Authority sign Cooperation Protocol

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The Order of Physiotherapists, represented by the President António Lopes, and the Health Regulatory Authority, represented by its Board of Directors, have agreed to sign a Cooperation Protocol with a view to improving the exercise of the respective attributions of each of the entities.

The two organisations believe that the Cooperation Protocol is fundamental in pursuing the common goal of increasing the quality of healthcare provided to the public, as well as guaranteeing compliance with the law.

The two organisations also agreed to work together to create a pool of technical experts to share human and technical resources and knowledge.

The signing ceremony for the Cooperation Protocol took place on Thursday 26 October at the ERS offices in Porto.

Pedro Maciel Barbosa

Specialist physiotherapist at the Matosinhos Local Health Unit Sub-coordinator for Primary Health Care, Matosinhos Local Health Unit Visiting Assistant Professor at the Porto School of Health Member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Health - SNS Member of the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists

Carlos Sand

Carlos Areia has been a physiotherapist since 2013, and has worked in various hospitals, clinics and clubs in both Portugal and the UK. He began his academic career at Oxford University in 2016, where he led a clinical trial comparing physiotherapy vs surgery in anterior cruciate injuries in 32 hospitals in England. In 2018 she moved to the neurosciences department, where she developed her own studies on remote monitoring of vital signs, which were implemented during the pandemic. Here he discovered his passion for data, and in 2022, he joined Digital Science as a Data Scientist. He completed his PhD earlier this year, and has more than 60 publications in journals such as The Lancet, BMJ, Cochrane, among others. He is also an honorary lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a consultant in clinical research.

Eduardo José Brazete Carvalho Cruz

PhD in Physiotherapy from the University of Brighton, UK. Post-Doctorate in Epidemiology from the National School of Public Health at the New University of Lisbon.
Coordinator of the Studies and Planning Office of the Order of Physiotherapists. Coordinating Professor of the Physiotherapy Department of the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (ESS-IPS). President of the ESS-IPS Technical-Scientific Council. Coordinator of the Physiotherapy Department at ESS-IPS. Integrated Researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) (a partnership between FCM-UNL, the National School of Public Health, the University of Évora, the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health and Santo Espírito Hospital, Terceira Island, Azores).

Sara Souto Miranda

Sara Souto Miranda has a bachelor's and master's degree in physiotherapy from the University of Aveiro, and a postgraduate qualification in adult respiratory physiotherapy from the same institution. In 2023 she completed her double doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences/Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universities of Aveiro and Maastricht (Netherlands) and is currently working as a technical-scientific advisor to the Studies and Planning Office (GEP) of the Order of Physiotherapists, and as a guest lecturer at the Piaget Institute in Vila Nova de Gaia. As a member of the Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory at the University of Aveiro (Lab3R), she has carried out applied research in which she has assessed and treated patients with respiratory pathology, having taken part in 6 research projects. Throughout her career she has published 19 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor, 1 book chapter and more than 50 abstracts in conference proceedings. She was a research volunteer at the Ciro rehabilitation centre (Centre for expertise in chronic organ failure) in the Netherlands, and is currently a member of the Guideline Methodology Network of European Respiratory Society. She was honoured by European Lung Foundation e European Respiratory Society for carrying out patient-centred research, by the Directorate General for Higher Education with a merit grant for his master's degree, and by the Ciro Centre with a grant to support research abroad.

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