The Order of Physiotherapists informs that Notice no. 3738/2023 was published in the Diário da República, concerning the public consultation of the draft Code of Ethics of the Order of Physiotherapists.
The Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists is committed to make accessible to all members, electronic databases of scientific production and research, of open access, with relevance to physiotherapists.
The Portuguese Physiotherapists Order was represented by António Lopes, President of the Portuguese Republic, in the audience granted by the President of the Republic, on the 7th February, at Palácio de Belém.
The Order of Physiotherapists and the Portuguese Association for Private Higher Education met on 26 January to discuss various issues related to the teaching of physiotherapy and arising from the relationship with higher education institutions.
The President of the Portuguese Physiotherapists Order, António Lopes, participated in the meeting of the Regional Health Council, convened and chaired by the Regional Secretary for Health and Sports of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
The President of the Portuguese Physiotherapists Order, António Lopes, and the 1st Vice-President of the Board, Nuno Cordeiro, went to Coimbra on 18th January for a meeting at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Politécnico de Coimbra (ESTeSC), at the request of the President of this Higher Education Institution, Graciano Paulo.
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The Directorate-General for Health, through the Department of Quality in Health, published Standard 17/2022, of 19 December, on "Notification and Management of Patient Safety Incidents", under the terms of Article 2(2)(a) of Regulatory Decree No. 14/2012, of 26 January.
The Order of Physiotherapists, represented by the President, António Lopes, accompanied by the administrator, Ana Paula Oliveira, and by the legal consultant, Luís Camejo, was received by the General Inspection of Health Activities (IGAS), in a meeting that took place on 21 December 2022.
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.
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 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.