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asthma management; allergy; medical informatics; health services research; health technology assessment; diagnostic tests; exhaled nitric oxide; questionnaires; patient-reported outcomes
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Biography

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).

Activities

Employment (4)

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina: Porto, Porto, PT

2023-02-01 to present | Full Professor (MEDCIDS - Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences)
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Joao A Fonseca

CUF Porto Hospital & Instituto: Porto, PT

2010-08-01 to present | Head / coordinator (Allergy)
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Joao A Fonseca

MEDIDA, Lda: Porto, PT

2007-07 to present | Co-founder
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Joao A Fonseca

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina: Porto, PT

2016 to 2023-01-31 | Associate Professor (Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences)
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Joao A Fonseca

Education and qualifications (3)

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina: Porto, Porto, PT

2015-02-09 | Agregação (Health Services Research)
Education
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Joao A Fonseca

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto: Porto, PT

2002 to 2007 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Medicine (Health Information and Decision Sciences Department )
Education
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Joao A Fonseca

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto: Porto, PT

1988 to 1994 | Medicine
Education
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Funding (20)

Quality, Utility and Maturity Measured; Developing a Data Quality and Utility Label for HealthData@EU

2024-01 to present | Grant
Horizon Europe (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: SEP-210936659
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CIÊNCIAVITAE

BREATHE - An oBservational, pRimary data study to characterize severe AsThma pHenotypes and assEss disease burden across the EUCAN region

2022-12 to present | Contract
AstraZeneca Produtos Farmacêuticos Lda (Barcarena, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

RAG-AZ-BREATHE

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ConectAR - Collaborative research network: Advancing patient and public involvement in Respiratory and digital health

2022-01-01 to 2023-09-30 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

EXPL/SAU-SER/0439/2021

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ConectAR - Rede colaborativa: envolvimento de doentes e público no avanço da investigação em doenças respiratórias e saúde digital

2022-01-01 to 2023-06-30 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

Provided by PTCRIS: EXPL/SAU-SER/0439/2021

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Health Research Network: From Lab to Community Health

2021-01-01 to 2025-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LA/P/0053/2020

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Adherence to hypertension treatment and blood pressure self-monitoring using embedded smartphone camera and advanced image processing

2020 to 2020-12-31 | Contract
EIT Health (Munich, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2020 RIS-1001-8286

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Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services

2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

UID/IC/04255/2019

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mINSPIRERS - mHealth to measure and improve adherence to medication in chronic obstructive respiratory diseases: generalisation and evaluation of gamification, peer support and advanced image processing technologies

2018-07 to 2021-06 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Porto, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTDC/MEC-OUT/29130/2017

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Joao A Fonseca
grade
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@IT-2020: CRD and mHealth for pollen allergy in Southern Europe - a multicenter observational study

2017 to 2019 | Contract
Aerocrine AB (Solna, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER: NCT03636919
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NanoSTIMA – Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics

2015-07 to 2019-06 | Contract
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA (Porto, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016

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Projeto Estratégico - UI 753-2014

2014-01 to 2014-12 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PEst-OE/SAU/ UI0753/2014

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CASCA – Cost-of-illness of asthma in children

2013-01 to 2015-03 | Contract
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER: (MP/P-125964)
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Control and Burden of Asthma and Rhinitis

2012-03-01 to 2014-09-30 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
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Joao A Fonseca via DimensionsWizard
grade
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ICAR - Control and Burden of Asthma and Rhinitis

2012-03 to 2014-07 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTDC/SAU-SAP/119192/2010

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Strategic Project - UI 753 - 2011-2012

2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PEst-C/SAU/UI0753/2011

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Chronic diseases of the airways - contents and tools for productive interactions between empowered patients and proactive professionals

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Joao A Fonseca via DimensionsWizard
grade
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Chronic diseases of the airways - contents and tools for productive interactions between empowered patients and proactive professionals

2010-09 to 2012-11 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

HMSP-IDSIM/SIM/ 0018/2009

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Enhancing multi-institutional health data availability through multi-agent systems

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Joao A Fonseca via DimensionsWizard

Enhancing multi-institutional health data availability through multi-agent systems

2010-03-22 to 2013-09-21 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PTDC/EIA-EIA/105352/2008

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INAsma – National Asthma Survey

2009 to 2011 | Contract
Direcção-Geral da Saúde (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

Programa Nacional da Asma

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Peer review (45 reviews for 17 publications/grants)

Review activity for Allergologia et immunopathologia. (1)
Review activity for Allergy. (1)
Review activity for Applied clinical informatics. (1)
Review activity for BMC pulmonary medicine (1)
Review activity for Chest. (10)
Review activity for Clinical and translational allergy. (2)
Review activity for European respiratory journal. (3)
Review activity for Expert review of clinical pharmacology (2)
Review activity for JMIR. (1)
Review activity for NPJ primary care respiratory medicine. (5)
Review activity for Pediatric allergy and immunology. (5)
Review activity for Pediatric pulmonology. (5)
Review activity for PloS one. (1)
Review activity for Primary care respiratory journal : (2)
Review activity for Pulmonology. (1)
Review activity for Respiratory research. (1)
Review activity for Respirology (3)