Inês Pereira de Sousa (3817-B248-B33A)

Curriculum Vitae

Inês Pereira de Sousa

Clinical physiologist and Clinical Reaseacher at UnIC@RISE and Department of Surgery and Physiology at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP). PhD Candidate in Cardiovascular Sciences and Master in Cardiovascular pathophysiology from FMUP. She is also member of clinical trial team of: Randomization of Single vs Multiple Arterial Grafts (ROMA) and Sodium-glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor, Aldosterone Antagonist, or Both for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: a Two-centre Randomised Three-treatment Three-period Crossover Trial (SOGALDI-PEF). Also she frequented clinical trials courses to acquire Good Clinical Practices certificate. Sousa main interest is clinical research in cardiac surgery with a specific interest in clinical research methods, such as,statistical analysis and machine learning. In the last years, Sousa had presented some of the results in the topic "Sex differences in long-term survival after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery" in some national congress.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Inês Pereira de Sousa

Citation names

Sousa, Inês

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3817-B248-B33A

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/09/01 - 2028/03/15 Ongoing	Ciências Cardiovasculares e Respiratórias (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2023/12/15 Concluded	Fisiopatologia Cardiovascular (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "Sex differences in long-term survival after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2017/09/01 - 2021/07/31 Concluded	Fisiologia Clínica (Licenciatura) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal "Análise da Fração de Óxido Nítrico no ar exalado como marcador de inflamação: comparação entre indivíduos saudáveis e indivíduos com asma e/ou rinite" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/03/13 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/08/01 - 2023/03/10	Técnico Principal (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Técnico de Cardiopneumologia)	Atrys - Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/05 - Current	Heart Failure “Nudges” for Treatment Optimization in the Emergency Room: The Nudge HF study NUDGES Researcher	Ongoing
2023/03/13 - Current	SOdium-Glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, ALDosterone AntagonIst, or both for heart failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: a two-centre randomised three-treatment three-period crossover trial ESR: 20-20771 Master Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/03/13 - Current	Initiation of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor (ARNi) and sodiumglucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF): the INITIATE-HFrEF randomized open-label trial PVA-0048-A Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/03/13 - Current	ROMA – Randomization of Single vs Multiple Arterial Grafts trial NCT03217006 Researcher Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Sousa, Inês; Diaz, Sílvia O.; Rui J. Cerqueira; Ana Filipa Ferreira; Mario J. Amorim; Paulo Pinho; André P. Lourenço; et al. "Relevance of testing proportional hazard assumption in Cox Regression - Sex differences in long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting". Paper presented in 5th Statistics on Health Decision Making: personalized medicine, 2023.
Francisca Sousa; Rui Cerqueira; Francisca Saraiva; Bruno Silva; Joana Araújo; Cândida Gonçalves; Sousa, Inês; et al. "Aortic valve surgery with stented VS stentless bioprosthesis in patients with infective endocarditis". Paper presented in 28º Portuguese Congress of Cardiopneumology, 2023.
Sousa, Inês; Diaz, Sílvia O.; Rui Cerqueira; Ana Filipa Ferreira; Mario J. Amorim; Paulo Pinho; André Lourenço; et al. "Sex impact is not constant over time after coronary artery bypass grafting". Paper presented in 28º Portuguese Congress of Cardiopneumology, 2023.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/11/24	The effect of sex is not constant over time after coronary artery bypass grafting in elderly patients: 19-years of follow-up	Congresso SPCCTV 4D Visions 2023 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia Cardíaca, Torácica e Vascular (Portugal)
2023/11/24	Bilateral versus single internal mammary artery in Women: long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting	Congresso SPCCTV 4D Visions 2023 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia Cardíaca, Torácica e Vascular (Portugal)
2023/11/24	Deferred percutaneous intervention versus saphenous vein graft for right coronary artery revascularization	Congresso SPCCTV 4D Visions 2023 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia Cardíaca, Torácica e Vascular (Portugal)
2023/03/24	Ten years follow-up after Aortic Valve Replacement with bioprothesis Trifecta	28º Portuguese Congress of Cardiopneumology (Portugal)
2021/10/16	Análise da Fração Exalada de Oxído Nítrico como marcador de inflamação em indivíduos com asma e/ou rinite	3º Congresso Nacional de Fisiologia Clínica (Coimbra, Portugal)