Current position

Professor, University of Oslo, 2017

Current Honorary Positions

• Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, The Netherlands
• University of Leuven, Faculty of Medicine, Belgium
• University Autonòma de Barcelona, Spain
• Curtin University, School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western Australia

Speech and Language therapist from Escola Superior de Saúde de Alcoitão. Psychologist from Faculty of Psychology of Lisbon, University of Lisbon. Master's Degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Doctor of Philosophy in Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon.

Postgraduate training in: Bobath Neurodevelopment Techniques; Precthl Qualitative Assessment Method in Neonatology; NBAS Brazelton and Touch Points training; training in the CAR program, Boston Hospital.

Currently working in the field of feeding and swallowing disorders and speech and language disorders at CHULC -Hospital D. Estefânia (HDE/SMFR) and Alfredo da Costa Maternity (MAC). 

Developed the  protocol of speech and language therapy assessment and intervention in the NICU at the HDE  and MAC.  Integrate a multidisciplinary team on pediatric Videofluoroscopy Swallowing Study at MAC. Developed and implemented videofluoroscopy protocol in pediatric swallowing disorders. Collaborates as part of a multidisciplinary team  in the context of feeding and language disorders in children with craniofacial malformations  

Develops formative activity in the area of ​​Speech Therapy, as well as in the area of ​​Health Psychology and Neuropsychology. Researcher areas of interest: speech and language pathology, eating, feeding and swallowing disorders, parental psychology and neurodevelopmental disorders. Publications in scientific journals and in book summaries of congresses.

Professional affiliations: member of Portuguese Association of Speech Therapists and member of  Portuguese Psychologists Association (OPP).  Awarded professional specialist degree in Clinical and Health Psychology and professional specialist in Neuropsychology (OPP). Holds the European Certificate in Psychology -Europsy Psychologist, field of practice: Clinical and Health.

Assistente Hospitalar no Serviço de Estomatologia e Cirurgia Maxilo-Facial do IPO de Coimbra desde 2016

Médica Neurologista do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra

Trabalha actualmente na Unidade de Acidentes Vasculares Cerebrais do CHUC

Investigação clínica na área da Hemodinâmica Cerebrovascular e Doenças da Substância Branca

Medical docter in Hospital de Braga since 1987. Coordenator of the Pediatric Gastrenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Unit in Hospital de Braga, since 1996. Sub-specialist in GI by medical Portuguese board since 2004. Coordenator of the Adolescent Unit in Hospital de Braga, since 1999, "sub-specialist" in Adolescent Medicine since 2018. Coordenator of NHACJR in Hospital de Braga since 1996. The Professor of Pediatrics in School of Medicine, University of Minho, since 2008. Investigator in ICVS since 2005, in ICVS/3B's and in Clinical Academy Center since the start. Actually, President of the Portuguese Society of Gastrenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (SPGP). 

Licenciatura em Terapia da Fala pela Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro; Pós Graduada em Disfagias Orofaríngeas pelo instituto EPAP; Mestre em Neurociências pela Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Terapeuta da Fala desde 2014 no CNS (Campus Neurológico Sénior).

Terapeuta da Fala - Certificação em Neuromodulação.

Formador Certificado Vitalstim.

Fisioterapeuta com mais de 10 anos de experiência na área de pediatria com crianças de 0 a 18 anos de idade com patologia motora.
Com Mestrado de fisioterapia em Especialização em avaliação e aplicação clínica do movimento humano no Instituto Superior de Saúde Tecnológica de Coimbra (ESTSC) E uma Pós-graduação em Fisioterapia Pediátrica no Instituto Superior Português Cruz Vermelha Lisboa. Desde 2011 trabalha no Hospital Pediátrico - Centro Hospitalar e Universidade de Coimbra no departamento de Medicina Física e Reabilitação. Desempenha papel de fisioterapeuta na avaliação e intervenção com crianças e famílias em equipa multidisciplinar, em crianças de regime ambulatório e internados com colaboração direta com todos os diferentes departamentos: medicina, ortopédica, neurocirurgia, oncológica, cuidados intensivos e cirurgia. Orientadora de estágios de alunos da ESTS Coimbra e da Universidade de Aveiro.

Médico adjunto Aparato Digestivo - Hospital de Mataró Consorci Sanitari del Maresme, Mataró (España) - Endoscopia digestiva diagnóstica y terapéutica.

Profesor colaborador UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (España)

Tutor Máster Alteraciones de la Deglución. ESSD-UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - European Society for Swallow Disorders, Mataró (España)

• Otorrinolaringologista no Serviço de Otorrinolaringologia do Hospital Pedro Hispano - ULS Matosinhos
• Licenciado em Medicina pela Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Lisboa em 2002; Assistente Hospitalar em Otorrinolaringologia desde Janeiro 2010; Responsável pela consulta de Disfagia/VED do HPH desde 2012

Current position

Professor, University of Oslo, 2017

Current Honorary Positions

• Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, The Netherlands
• University of Leuven, Faculty of Medicine, Belgium
• University Autonòma de Barcelona, Spain
• Curtin University, School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western Australia