Reserved Area

Applications

Members interested in standing for election to the Order's bodies may submit their candidatures between the following days 6 of September 2025 e 6th October 2025. To submit your application, go to the application forms, available below and follow the instructions provided. Check the necessary requirements and prepare the required documentation. See also the Guidance for Applicants.

  • Receipt via e-mail: Receipt is via the address eleicoes@ordemdosfisioterapeutas.ptthe documentation is signed digitally by the Order's services and then sent to the representative of the list. In turn, the list representative declares/confirms that it has received a response from the Order's services.​
  • Hand deliveryreception takes place at the Order's premises, at Rua D. João V, n° 24 - 1.06, 1250-091 Lisboa, all pages are stamped and initialled by the Order's services. All the original documentation is photocopied so that a copy can be given to the representative of the list, who declares/confirms that it has received the same copy, via the draft provided.​
  • Receipt by postPlease send your enquiry to Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas - Rua D. João V, n° 24 - 1.06, 1250-091 Lisboa, guaranteeing that it will be sent to you. the deadline for submitting applications (6 October). The envelopes will be opened by the Order's services at presence of 2 witnesses. The documentation received must also be stamped and initialled on every page.

⚠️ Information note - Jurisdictional Council application form

Please note that the Jurisdictional Council application formincluded in the annexes to the Electoral Regulations published in the Official Gazette (Regulation no. 836/2025)contains a material lapse, showing only 50 lines for subscriberswhen the number required by the regulation is 100 subscribers.

The form available on website of the Order of Physiotherapists has already been correctedThe correct number of lines will now be 100, in accordance with the text of the regulation.

It is therefore recommended that all candidates for the Jurisdictional Council use exclusively the updated version of the form available in this page.

Application forms:​

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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