Award for best oral presentation
Rui Fonseca-Pinto attended at ICPEFH 2019: 21st International Conference on Physical Exercises, Fitness and Health in Tokyo from 9 to 10 September presenting an oral communication entitled MOVIDA.polis: Physical Activity mHealth Based Platform.This presentation received the award for best oral presentation.
João Morais, MD, published in Nature Reviews Cardiology
João Morais, MD, integrated member of ciTechCare, is co-author of the paper: The myth of ‘stable’ coronary disease, published in the journal Nature Reviews Cardiology (IF: 17.420).
MOVIDA at the WONCA Conference
At the last European conference of WONCA European Family Doctors, held in Bratislava, Slovakia in June, the MOVIDA project won the best paper award in the field of Public Health and Health Prevention. The ciTechCare researchers Rui Fonseca-Pinto and Bruno Carreira attended the conference and also presented a workshop on Prescribing Physical Activity, where they discussed the use of mobile applications to prescribe and monitor physical activity.
ciTechCare was represented at the CMBEBIH 2019
Rui Fonseca-Pinto presented two communications at the International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, which took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the 16th to the 19th of May. Francisco Cunha, Luis Távora, Pedro Assunção, Sérgio Faria, Rui Fonseca-Pinto – Stereo laser speckle dissimilarity analysis using self-organizing maps Rui Fonseca-Pinto – Prescribe and Monitor Physical Activity through a community based eHealth Program: MOVIDA platform Find more information HERE.
Grant to support events as part of the Healthy Lungs for Life campaign – funded by the European Lung Foundation/European Respiratory Society attributed to Joana Cruz
On May 5th 2019, a grant to support events as part of the Healthy Lungs for Life campaign of the European Lung Foundation/European Respiratory Society was awarded by Dr Joana Cruz – Invited Adjunct Professor at the School of Health Sciences (ESSLei) and Researcher at the Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), Polytechnic of Leiria. The grant will be used to organize and support events that increase knowledge of the impact of poor air quality on lung health and raise awareness of the actions that everyone can take to protect their own lungs from indoor and outdoor air pollution, such
Research aiming to develop a mobile platform that enables primary care professionals to customize physicl activity plans for patients with COPD – Research Update Medicine Project/Alfasigma 2019
The four mentors of the project (Dr. André Rainho Dias, Dr. Mariana Coimbra, Dr. Bruno P. Carreira, Prof. Joana Cruz) accompanied by the coordinator of the USF Santiago de Leiria, Dr. Manuel Carvalho. The research “Online platform for physical activity promotion in patients with COPD in primary care” (Plataforma móvel de promoção da atividade física em pessoas com DPOC nos Cuidados de Saúde Primários) received the scientific award “Bolsa de Inovação Diagnóstica e Terapêutica Update em Medicina / Alfasigma 2019” (Research Update Medicine Project / Alfasigma 2019).This award will be used to develop a mobile platform that enables primary care