Biography
Carla Mendes Pereira, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), completed her PhD in Physiotherapy / Rehabilitation at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at St George's: University of London in 2017; obtained her MSc degree in Educational Sciences- specialisation in higher education awarded by the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences in 2006 and graduated in Physiotherapy in 2002 by the School of Health of Alcoitão. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Health at the Polytechnic University of Setúbal (ESS/IPS), Portugal. Her current activities include: i) coordination of the master's course of Advanced Neurological Physiotherapy; ii) member of the Council of Representatives at ESS/IPS; and iii) member of the Technical-Scientific Council of ESS/IPS; and iv) member of the Ethics Commission of IPS. Previously, she had also experience as co-coordinator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Research in Health (2019-2023); president of the Pedagogical Council of ESS/IPS (2014-17); coordinator of the undergraduate Physiotherapy course (2016-17; 2010-11; 2005-08); member of the Academic Council of IPS (2014/17) and member of the quality assurance commission of ESS/IPS (2014/17). She is an integrated member of the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) and of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Communication in Healthcare. Currently, she is the principal investigator of 1 funded project (b-able2) and researcher in NOISyS; she supervises master and PhD students. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific and technological output are: stroke, carers, education, self-management, empowerment, secondary prevention, Parkinson's disease, digital health, mHealth, triad, qualitative research, meta synthesis, narrative reasoning, clinical communication, patient-centred practice, portfolio, internationalisation-at-home, case-based learning, active learning.