Filipa Sequeira is Internist and Intensivist at Intensive Care Department at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra. She is a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC) and chose traumatic brain injury for her line of research. She is actively engaged in groundbreaking research as a member of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), at Mitochondrial Biomedicine and Theranostics Laboratory (LBioMiT, UC) and Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (iCBR), since 2023. Assistant Professor at the FMUC, teaching since 2023.

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Filipa Sequeira Oliveira

Citation names

  • Sequeira, Filipa
  • Filipa Sequeira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C61A-93E3-0C09
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5020-5432

Addresses

  • Instituto de Bioquímica, FMUC, Pólo III - Subunidade 1, 2º andar. Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
  • Serviço de Medicina Intensiva, ULS Coimbra. Praceta Prof. Mota Pinto, 3004-561, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Critical care Medicine and Emergency Medicine
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - General and Internal Medicine
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Degree Classification
2022 - 2026
Ongoing
 Programa de Doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022 - 2023
Concluded
 Advanced Courses integrated in the Doctoral Program in Health Sciences (conclusão de unidades curriculares) (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
 19 valores
2018/11/01 - 2022/05/04
Concluded
 Formação Via Clássica em Medicina Intensiva (Título de especialista)
Major in Medicina Intensiva
Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal

Centro Hospitalar Leiria EPE, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2018/05/21
Concluded
 Interna de Formação Específica em Medicina Interna (Título de especialista)
Major in Medicina Interna
Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa EPE, Portugal
2014 - 2014
Concluded
 Médico de Viatura Médica de Emergência e Reanimação (VMER) (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica IP, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2012/12/31
Concluded
 Internato do Ano Comum (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal
2005 - 2011
Concluded
 Medicina (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/25 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - Current Assistente (Médica) Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal
2018/11/01 - 2022/06/21 Assistente (Médica) Centro Hospitalar Leiria EPE, Portugal
2014/08/28 - 2021/12/01 Assistente (Médica) Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica IP, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2018/09/26 Interno (Médica) Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa EPE, Portugal

Other

Designation Funders
2020/01/30 - Current ISARIC
13/SC/0149
Researcher
Concluded

Publications

Journal article
  1. Sung-Min Cho; Nicole White; Lavienraj Premraj; Denise Battaglini; Jonathon Fanning; Jacky Suen; Gianluigi Li Bassi; et al. "Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 in adults and children". Brain 146 4 (2023): 1648-1661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac332.
    10.1093/brain/awac332
  2. Christiana Kartsonaki; J Kenneth Baillie; Noelia García Barrio; Joaquín Baruch; Abigail Beane; OYEWALE TOMORI; Fernando Bozza; et al. "Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600¿000 hospitalized patients with COVID-19". International Journal of Epidemiology 52 2 (2023): 355-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyad012.
    10.1093/ije/dyad012
  3. Jason Bouziotis; Marianna Arvanitakis; Jean-Charles Preiser. "Association of body mass index with COVID-19 related in-hospital death". Clinical Nutrition 41 12 (2022): 2924-2926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2022.01.017.
    10.1016/j.clnu.2022.01.017
  4. Joaquin Baruch; Amanda Rojek; Christiana Kartsonaki; Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan; Bronner P. Gonçalves; Mark Pritchard; Laura Merson; et al. "Symptom-based case definitions for COVID-19: Time and geographical variations for detection at hospital admission among 260,000 patients". Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 16 6 (2022): 1040-1050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.13039.
    10.1111/irv.13039
  5. Luis Felipe Reyes; Srinivas Murthy; Esteban Garcia-Gallo; Laura Merson; Elsa D. Ibáñez-Prada; Jordi Rello; Yuli V. Fuentes; et al. "Respiratory support in patients with severe COVID-19 in the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection (ISARIC) COVID-19 study: a prospective, multinational, observational study". Critical Care 26 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-022-04155-1.
    10.1186/s13054-022-04155-1
  6. ISARIC Clinical Characterization Group; Ali Abbas; Sheryl Ann Abdukahil; Nurul Najmee Abdulkadir; Ryuzo Abe; Laurent Abel; Lara Absil; et al. "ISARIC-COVID-19 dataset: A Prospective, Standardized, Global Dataset of Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19". Scientific Data 9 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01534-9.
    10.1038/s41597-022-01534-9
  7. Marina Wainstein; Samual MacDonald; Daniel Vidali Fryer; Kyle Young; Valeria Balan; Husna Begum; Aidan Burrell; et al. "Use of an extended KDIGO definition to diagnose acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19: A multinational study using the ISARIC–WHO clinical characterisation protocol". PLOS Medicine 19 4 (2022): e1003969-e1003969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003969.
    10.1371/journal.pmed.1003969
  8. Filipa Sequeira. "Clinical characteristics, risk factors and outcomes in patients with severe COVID-19 registered in the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium WHO clinical characterisation protocol: a prospective, multinational, multicentre, observational study". ERJ Open Research 8 1 (2022): 00552-2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00552-2021.
    10.1183/23120541.00552-2021
  9. Ali Abbas; Sheryl Ann Abdukahil; Nurul Najmee Abdulkadir; Ryuzo Abe; Laurent Abel; Lara Absil; Subhash Acharya; et al. "The value of open-source clinical science in pandemic response: lessons from ISARIC". The Lancet Infectious Diseases 21 12 (2021): 1623-1624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(21)00565-x.
    10.1016/s1473-3099(21)00565-x
  10. ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Group; Matthew Hall; Joaquín Baruch; Gail Carson; Barbara Wanjiru Citarella; Andrew Dagens; Emmanuelle A Dankwa; et al. "Ten months of temporal variation in the clinical journey of hospitalised patients with COVID-19: An observational cohort". eLife 10 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.70970.
    10.7554/elife.70970
  11. Filipa Sequeira. "COVID-19 symptoms at hospital admission vary with age and sex: results from the ISARIC prospective multinational observational study". Infection 49 5 (2021): 889-905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-021-01599-5.
    10.1007/s15010-021-01599-5
  12. Filipa Sequeira. "Impact of Complications and Comorbidities on the outcome after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage". Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 2021, 9(1): 000657 (2021):
    Published
  13. Filipa Sequeira. "Mortality Risk in COVID-19 Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation - Experience of a Portuguese Tertiary Hospital". Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 2021, 9(1): 001313 (2021):
    Published
  14. Filipa Sequeira. "Acute pancreatitis in intensive care unit patients: A retrospective study". Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 2020, 8(2): 001325 (2020):
    Published
  15. Almeida, Francisco; Sequeira, Filipa; Casella, Maria Isabel; Mota, Margarida; Serrao, Rosario; Mesquita, Mari; Goes, Ana Teresa; Teixeira, Tiago; Pineiro, Carmela. "Assessment of the results at 96 weeks of a multicentric Portuguese cohort of patients treated with emtricitabine/tenofovir/rilpivirine". Journal of the International AIDS Society (2016): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/54311779/.
  16. Sequeira, Filipa; Grazina, Sara; Alves, Joao; Peres, Susana; Borges, Fernando; Miranda, Ana Claudia; Aldir, Isabel; Mansinho, Kamal. "Integrase strand transfer inhibitors in the treatment of HIV-2 infection: report of 39 patients". Journal of the International AIDS Society (2016): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/54311778/.

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/02 Equipa de Prevenção e Consultadoria Interna de Medicina Intensiva num hospital não terciário: Experiência de 5 meses VII Congresso Internacional de Cuidados Intensivos
2021 Impact of Complications and Comorbidities on the outcome after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage LIVES Digital Congress
2021 Mortality Risk in Covid-19 Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation – Experience of a Portuguese Tertiary Hospital LIVES Digital Congress
2020/10 Pneumonia Associada ao Ventilador – Um problema atual 25th Infection and Sepsis Symposium
2020 Acute pancreatitis in intensive care unit patients: A retrospective study LIVES Digital Congress
2016 Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors in the Treatment of HIV-2 Infection: Report of 39 Patients HIV Glasgow 2016
(Glasgow)
2016 Erdheim-chester disease: a challenging diagnosis 15º European Congress of Internal Medicine
(Amsterdão, Netherlands)
2016 Avaliação das Causas e Eficácia do “Switch” de Terapêutica Biológica numa Coorte de Doentes com Artrite Reumatóide XXII Reunião Anual do NEDAI
(Elvas)
2016 Casuística de Trombose Venosa Cerebral numa Unidade de AVC 17º Congresso do Núcleo de Estudos da Doença Vascular Cerebral da Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Interna
2015 A Importância da Medicina Interna na Abordagem do Doente Politraumatizado numa Unidade de Cuidados Intermédios XXI Congresso Nacional de Medicina Interna
(Portugal)
2014 Acidente Vascular Cerebral: Uma Observação Sobre Atitudes e Conhecimento de População 15º Congresso do Núcleo de Estudos da Doença Vascular Cerebral (NEDVC)
2014 Mimetizadores de Acidente Vascular Cerebral: Casuística de Um Ano de Internamento XXXV Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna, IV Congreso Ibérico de Medicina Interna, II Congreso de la Sociedad de Medicina Interna de la Región de Murcia
(Spain)
2014 Trombólise Endovenosa no Acidente Vascular Cerebral: Será a Etiologia Importante para o Prognóstico? XX Congresso Nacional de Medicina Interna
(Funchal, Portugal)
2014 Golpe de calor – uma emergência médica XX Congresso Nacional de Medicina Interna
(Funchal, Portugal)
2013 Acidente Vascular Cerebral em Contexto de Disseção Arterial Carotídea e Vertebral: Casuística de 4 anos num Centro Hospitalar 14º Congresso do Núcleo de estudos de Doença Vascular Cerebral, da Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Interna
2013 Diplopia as the first manifestation of myasthenia gravis associated with thymoma 12th European Congress of Internal Medicine
(Praga)
2013 Risco Precoce de Acidente Vascular Cerebral Após um Acidente Isquémico Transitório

Award

2014 Prémio “Menção Honrosa 2014”
2013 Prémio “Menção Honrosa 2013”