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I am Full Professor and Head of the Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), co-founder of MEDIDA, Lda and Head of the Allergy Units of CUF Porto Instituto and Hospital. I am also a researcher at the Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Services (CINTESIS). I was co-director of the Harvard Medical School Portugal Programme in 2011-12 and a member of the Health Technologies Assessment Committee of INFARMED (Portuguese Medicines Agency) until 2023. My main research interests are patient-centred innovation, mobile health, patient-reported outcomes and health technology assessment and implementation. My main clinical interests, both in children and adults, are asthma and rhinitis, lung function and airway inflammation. I am the Director of the new BSc in Digital Health and Biomedical Innovation and coordinator of three curricular units in the Clinical and Health Services Research PhD programme (FMUP) - Health Services Research, Scientific Publication and Communication and Intervention Studies - Clinical Trials. I have co-authored over 300 WOS core publications and have >8400 citations of papers indexed by WOS with an h-index of 48. I have participated in >25 research projects, 8 as Principal Investigator, e.g. mINSPIRER - mHealth to measure and improve adherence to medication in chronic obstructive respiratory diseases (funded by FCT, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-09038 2018), Control and Burden of Asthma and Rhinitis (funded by FCT, PTDC/SAU-SAP/119192/2010 and National Scientific Societies), or the CARAT project - Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Questionnaire (www.caratnetwork.org).
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RAG-AZ-BREATHE
EXPL/SAU-SER/0439/2021
Provided by PTCRIS: EXPL/SAU-SER/0439/2021
LA/P/0053/2020
2020 RIS-1001-8286
UID/IC/04255/2019
PTDC/MEC-OUT/29130/2017
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016
PEst-OE/SAU/ UI0753/2014
PTDC/SAU-SAP/119192/2010
PEst-C/SAU/UI0753/2011
HMSP-IDSIM/SIM/ 0018/2009
PTDC/EIA-EIA/105352/2008
Programa Nacional da Asma