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Official Results

After final validation, they were published in Official Gazette the official results of the 2025 Elections for the Governing Bodies of the Physiotherapists' Association. See the Notice published in the Official Gazette, here.

The nominal composition of the Governing Bodies of the Order of Physiotherapists, resulting from the electoral process and the applicable statutory mechanisms, is available for consultation below.

National Bodies

General Council

Chairman of the General Council: Maria António Ferreira de Castro, CP no. 410

Secretary of the Bureau: Adérito Ricardo Duarte Seixas, CP no. 1054

Secretary of the Bureau: Ana Catarina Monteiro Casaca, CP nº 1107

Effective members:

Manuel Francisco Nunes de Medeiros, CP 3119

Cláudia dos Ramos Aguiar, CP no. 1787

João Alberto Branco Valeriano, CP no. 129

Manuela da Conceição Ferreira Martinho, CP no. 4014

Paulo Jorge Cordeiro Gomes Pereira, CP nº 242

Ana Maria Nunes Machado Moreira, CP 4175

Bernardo de Amorim Gonçalves Monteiro Pinto, CP 3744

Ana Sofia Cardoso Pontes Magalhães Pacheco, CP no. 1710

Pedro Venâncio Morais Maciel Barbosa, CP 1010

Beatriz Oliveira da Silva, CP no. 1586

Vítor Hugo do Carmo Azevedo, CP no. 2358

Maria da Conceição Sanina Graça, CP no. 1268

Nelson João da Cunha Azevedo, CP no. 2227

Paula Clara Ribeiro Santos, CP no. 732

Nuno Filipe Pina, CP 3894

Anabela Gonçalves da Silva, CP nº 499

Duarte Rafael Sampaio Pereira, CP 548

Alda Sofia Pires de Dias Marques, CP no. 1299

Hélio Manuel Bragança da Silva, CP no. 3704

Ana Rita Carujo Saramago, CP no. 1066

Bruno Miguel Gonçalves da Silva, CP 3711

Mariana Miguel Santos Fonseca, CP no. 2247

Ana Maria Conceição Tomé, CP no. 1294

Rui Alberto Fernandes Antunes Viana, CP nº 1956

Eliana Cibel Abreu Sousa, CP no. 10850

Sérgio Mendes Neto, CP no. 326

Sara Palos Souto de Miranda, CP no. 1235

Germano José da Silva Ferreira, CP 3563

Mariana Rodrigues Simões Costa Fonseca, CP no. 136

Ricardo Jorge Afonso Dias, CP nº 1696

Marta Inês Ribeiro Gonçalves, CP 4735

Carolina Maria Welbers, CP no. 6378

César da Silva Natário, CP 7038

Marta Pereira Duarte, CP no. 4926

Tânia Luísa Tavares Santo, CP 3585

Custódio Gabriel Martins da Costa, CP 3816

Joaquina Vieira da Palma Cristina, CP no. 10946

Ana Maria Favinha Paraiba de Oliveira Ferreira Pinto, CP 3471

João Frederico de Amorim Gonçalves Monteiro Pinto, CP nº 2077

Angela Patricia Águas Bonaparte Vieira, CP no. 1505

Andreia Sara da Silva Rocha, CP nº 1353

João Pedro Oliveira dos Santos Neto, CP 1429

Elsa Maria Gil Lourenço da Silva, CP 3515

Telma Filipa Rodrigues Pereira Pires, CP no. 2847

Pedro Miguel da Silva Catarro, CP no. 2579

Teresa Miguel Marques Pinto, CP no. 2224

Cláudia Sofia da Costa Veríssimo, CP 1258

Alternates:

Emanuel Tiago Santos Heleno, CP nº 397

Francisco Luís Rocha Neto, CP no. 3210

Susana Patrícia Tinoco da Silva Duarte, CP no. 2524

Ângela Jorge Mesquita, CP no. 3436

David Damásio Francisco, CP no. 974

Sónia Manuela Torrinha Machado, CP no. 7789

Rosa Maria de Sousa Andias, CP no. 2261

Tiago Miguel Figueiredo de Brito, CP nº 1980

Carla Mendes Pereira, CP 2732

Soraia Juliana Pires, CP 5570

Pedro Jorge Reis de Almeida, CP nº 243

Marlene Cris􀆟na Neves Rosa, CP no. 10043

Catarina Isabel Correia Pereira Teixeira de Almada, CP nº 1989

Bruno Teixeira de Carvalho, CP nº 11011

Clara Daniela Dias Ferreira, CP no. 3499

Luís Miguel Eva Ferreira, CP nº 1538

Rita Maria Rodrigues Pires Afonso, CP no. 976

Rubina Luísa Teixeira Moniz, CP no. 3089

Diogo Sousa Silva, CP nº 11329

Cristina Teresa Torrão de Carvalho Mesquita, CP nº 4397

Joana Medeiros Andrade, CP 2709

Patrick Jimmy Soares Morais CP no. 9698

Joana Isabel Duarte Tiago, CP nº 2917

André Luís Rocha Pinhal, CP nº 13121

Ana Sofia Garcez Barbosa do Couto, CP no. 1440

Bastonary

António Manuel Fernandes Lopes, CP no. 2

Direction

President: António Manuel Fernandes Lopes, CP no. 2

1st Vice-President: Maria da Conceição Madaíl Caldeira Bettencourt, CP no. 5

2nd Vice-President: Pedro Jorge Lapa Rebelo, CP no. 4

1st Member: Afonso Rodrigues Neutel, CP no. 8

2nd Member: Sofia Mendes Alves Pereira Jordão, CP nº4683

Jurisdictional Council

President: Rui Manuel Tomé Torres, CP no. 3050

1st Member: Ana Cabral de Noronha e Menezes Cordeiro de Sousa, CP no. 3230

2nd Member: Rui Miguel Monteiro Soles Gonçalves, CP no. 15

3rd Member: Lúcia Maria Simões Fernandes Costa

4th Member: Helder Rui Martins Fonseca

Alternates:

Diana Filipa Salvador Bernardo, CP 5510

Rui Miguel Faria Furtado Cintra, CP no. 2697

Isabel Maria Pires Sebastião Ramalhinho

Fiscal Council

President: José Manuel Fernandes Esteves, CP nº605

Member: Ana Maria Campos Matias Marreiros Cashier, CP nº3238

Chartered Accountant: Joaquim José dos Santos Alves, CP ROC no. 1239

Supervisory Board

Effective members:

Ana Isabel Alves Silva de Almeida, CP 3994

Rui Jorge Dias Costa, CP 11

Jorge Manuel dos Santos Conde

Maria João Moreira Gonçalves

Alternates:

Joana Batista de Castro Pinto, CP 4178

Raul Alberto Carrilho Cordeiro

Regional Bodies

Northern Regional Directorate

President: José Pedro Pinto Leite, CP nº 4512

1st Member: Henriqueta Manuela Fernandes, CP nº 8304

2nd Member: José Luís Martins Alves Sousa, CP no. 2294

Alternates: Maria Gabriela Mendes da Rocha Brochado, CP no. 14

Centre Regional Directorate

President: Luís Manuel Pereira Brás, CP no. 4158

1st Member: Maria Leonor Ferreira de Oliveira Manuel Adrião, CP 9441

2nd Member: Joana Cristina de Oliveira Rosado, CP 1009

Alternates: João Afonso Belo Duarte Aires Moreira, CP 543

Southern Regional Office

President: Sandra Margarida Quintas Alves Veloso, CP nº 897

1st Member: Cláudio Miguel Dias Correia, CP 3851

2nd Member: Carla Sofia Cruzinha de Sousa, CP 660

Alternates: José Alexandre de Araújo Melo Marques Coelho, CP 415

Azores Regional Office

President: Luís Carlos Martins Duarte, CP nº 269

1st Member: Juliana Sofia da Silva Fernandes, CP 560

2nd Member: Nuno Miguel Leal Ribeiro, CP 4258

Alternates: Joana Amaral Silva da Costa Dias, CP 3196

Luciana Libânio da Silva, CP no. 3477

Northern Regional Assembly Board

President: Andrea Miguel Lopes Rodrigues Ribeiro Macedo, CP nº 802

1st Member: Márcio Miguel Fernandes Ferreira Vieira, CP nº 1347

2nd Member: Sandrine Jorge Ferreira, CP 1464

Alternates: João Nuno Pereira dos Reis Sousa, CP nº 193

Bureau of the Centre Regional Assembly

President: Fernando Manuel Tavares da Silva Ribeiro, CP no. 2560

1st Member: Ana Claudia Bexiga Monteiro, CP nº 8936

2nd Member: Sofia Páscoa Tavares, CP nº 16

Alternates: Vitor Manuel Carvalho Ferreira Gonçalves, CP no. 7766

Bureau of the Azores Regional Assembly

President: Carlos Alberto Medeiros Mendonça, CP no. 10993

1st Member: Inês Margarida Pereira Cardoso, CP nº 1272

2nd Member: Lúcia Maria de Dias Matos, CP no. 11189

Alternates: Tibério Pereira Cabral, CP no. 2989

Madeira Regional Assembly Board

President: Carolina Luísa Quintal Caldeira, CP nº 424

1st Member: João Tiago Teixeira Silva, CP nº 12653

2nd Member: Carolina Silva Vieira, CP 1725

Alternates: João Rodolfo Novita, CP 9556

 

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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