Electronic or in person, find out how to vote

Eletronico ou Presencial, saiba como votar

Elections shall be conducted ELECTRONICALLY (preferably) or in person.

By accessing the digital platform for electronic voting, between 00:00h and 20:00h - time of Continental Portugal (GMT).

On 13 November (Saturday), via e-mail votoeletronico@ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt an e-mail will be sent to all the Physiotherapists listed in the Electoral Roll for the First Elections of the Order of Physiotherapists with a LINK and the ELECTOR ID.

The referred LINK (to access the platform) will also be available in the site of the Order of Physiotherapists.

After accessing the electronic voting platform, you should enter your ELECTOR ID: Citizen's Card number (CC) / Identity Card (BI) / International Identification Card number. This number should be the one registered in the Order of Physiotherapists;

In parallel, on this day 13 November (Saturday) will be sent to your mobile phone, via SMS, by Extreme Solutions the PIN / Voting Key. with these two elements will then be able to vote on November 15 between 00:00h and 20:00h, time of Continental Portugal (GMT).

If you have lost your PIN / Voting Key, in this window you can request a new one by clicking on "New PIN / Voting Key".

It will also be sent to your mobile phone by SMS. This action cancels the original PIN / Voting Key;

If you have any difficulties you can click on "Contacts" and ask the Helpdesk of the external company that provides the voting service for help.

You also have available the "Help" button where all the steps for voting are described;

By clicking on "Vote!" you enter the Voting area, which we will tell you about in a moment.

If you choose to vote in a PRESENTIAL manner, this will take place at the headquarters of the Order of Physiotherapists, from 07:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m. - time of Continental Portugal (GMT).

For voting in person and for those who do not have access to their PIN / Voting Key sent by SMS, sealed envelopes containing PIN / Voting Key will be available.

These envelopes shall be numbered on the outside and at the moment of delivery to a member who requests it - and after confirmation on the platform that this member has not yet voted - the voting platform shall associate this number on the outside of the envelope to the voting member, automatically eliminating the original voting key previously sent.

The Order of Physiotherapists hired a company to provide an Electronic Voting service - Extreme Solutions (https://www.extremesolutions.pt/ ).

On the site of the Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas (https://ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt/eleicoes/ato-eleitoral/ ) , this and other issues relating to the elections on 15 November are explained.

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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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