Last 26th March, the President of the Portuguese Physioterapists Order António Lopes participated, as a guest, in the Congress "The Great Age in Discussion", organized by the Associação Amigos da Grande Idade and Escola Superior de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa.
On 26 March, the 4th CNS CONGRESS was held, dedicated to the theme "Neurological Diseases: Caring at home and in the community".
On 26 March, the Inaugural Ceremony of the SPLS took place, also marked by the event "Health Literacy and the Global Humanitarian Crisis", in Lisbon.
A working group has been set up with representatives of the Orders of the health professions to monitor the initiatives of the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The Office of Studies and Planning (GEP) of the Order took office on 29 March, created according to the Activities Plan approved by the General Council.
To clarify and publicize the position of the Order of Physiotherapists in the face of the escalating conflict that is taking place in Ukraine, in order to better provide the necessary help, the Board created a working team, within the so-called Technical Evaluation Committee, to assess, on a case-by-case basis, the requests from physiotherapists from Ukraine under the support that Portugal gives to refugees from that country.
The Portuguese Order of Physioterapists was present on 9th March 2022 at the inauguration of the Laboratory of Physical and Functional Assessment in Physiotherapy - LAFFFI of the Egas Moniz Higher Education Cooperative.
António Lopes, President of the Portuguese Physioterapists Order, was present in the commemorations of the School Day, in ESTeSL, this Thursday, 24th February.
The Portuguese Physiotherapists Order meets with the Portuguese Association of Technicians of Radiology, Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (ATARP).
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.