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Installing Commitee

The Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas is currently governed by the Comissão Instaladora appointed on the 17th of November, and constituted by:

Isabel de Souza Guerra

Isabel de Souza Guerra (president) - Physiotherapist, Master in Health Services Management, Professor and coordinator of the Women's Health Branch of the master's degree in physiotherapy at Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão.
She was president of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFisio – Associação Portuguesa de Fisioterapeutas) from 1996 to 2016, and President of the Pro-Order Committee of APFisio from 2016 until Order of Physiotherapists (2019) was legally recognized. She has been director of physiotherapy department at Egas Moniz Hospital.

António Manuel Fernandes Lopes

António Manuel Fernandes Lopes – Physiotherapist, certified Specialist in Physiotherapy by the Polytechnic Institutes of Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra.
Psychologist, Master in Educational Sciences. Coordinating Professor, at Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, of which he was Deputy Director, President of the Pedagogical Council and Coordinator of the Department of Physiotherapy, and undergraduate and master's courses.
He was one of the founding members of the Reformulating Committee of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFisio), in 1974, having held various positions, and closely following the development of the association.
He was Vice-President of the APFisio National Directive Council from 1996 to 2016, and Vice-President of the Pro-Order Committee. He has represented APFisio in multiple international meetings since 1977, was Vice-President of the EEC Liaison Committee for Physiotherapists (SLCP) between 1991 and 1998, and was President of the European Region of the World Physiotherapy Confederation (ER-WCPT) between 1998 and 2010.
He was awarded the WCPT International Service Award in 2011.

António Manuel Fernandes Lopes

Pedro Jorge Lapa Rebelo - Physiotherapist, certified Specialist in Physiotherapy by the Polytechnic Institutes of Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra.
Master in Health Communication, PhD student in Physiotherapy.
Director of the Physiotherapy Course at Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Lisboa (2010-2020).
Member of the board of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists from 2004 to 2016; vice-president of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists (APFISIO) from 2016 to 2019 and President of APFISIO from 2019 to January 2020.

Olímpio Pereira

Olímpio Pereira - Physiotherapist - managing partner of the “Fisio-Roma” Physiotherapy Clinic.
Consultant in the field of physiotherapy at the insurance company Allianz. SPAT member.
ESSKA member.

Maria da Conceição Bettencourt

Maria da Conceição Bettencourt - Physiotherapist, Postgraduate in Health Services Management. She is the coordinator of the Quality Program Management Office at the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, E.P.E. She was a member of the APF board from 1996 to 2013.

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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