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President of World Physiotherapy visits Portugal

This Tuesday saw the end of a two-day visit to Portugal by the President of World Physiotherapy (WP), Michel Landry.

The newly elected President of the organisation that represents more than 600,000 physiotherapists around the world, through its 127 members, including the Order of Physiotherapistswas received on 27 and 28 November.

During the visit to the premises in Lisbon, President António Lopes and the Direction presented the strategic plan for the activities of the Order of Physiotherapists at a meeting attended by the President of the Jurisdictional Council and the President of the Supervisory Board.

A session was held with the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists, in which the President of World Physiotherapy presented some of the organisation's strategic projects and answered some questions from the audience gathered beforehand. The session was open to members of  working groups of the Order of Physiotherapists, in particular those linked to specialised groups (speciality groups) from World Physiotherapy.

With the aim of addressing opportunities for co-operation on projects in the World Physiotherapy with a humanitarian component, the programme included a meeting with the Physiotherapy in emergencies, disasters and humanitarian action Working Group.

For the President of the Order of Physiotherapists, António Lopes, this visit represented "a significant step towards strengthening the Order of Physiotherapists as the representative body of the profession at international level and consolidating the institutional relationship with the international organisation of which the Order of Physiotherapists is a member".

For the President of World Physiotherapy, Michel Landry, "Being here gives me the opportunity, which is important for me personally and for us at World Physiotherapy, to create partnerships with orders and associations around the world. Because a strong Order unleashes potential in the country, in Europe and also opens up opportunities for physiotherapists in other Portuguese-speaking countries and, at the same time, opportunities for the patients you work with".
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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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