Mónica Duarte C. Oliveira
Assistant Professor, Engineering and Management Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Researcher, Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST)
Contact information
Institutional page: https://fenix.ist.utl.pt:443/homepage/ist14410
Research ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-4996-2009
E-mail:monica.oliveira@ist.utl.pt
Address for correspondence: Departamento de Engenharia e Gestão (DEG), Instituto Superior Técnico, Campus Alameda, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Telephone: +00 351 218417322 Ext: 1322 (Alameda campus) or: +00 351 214233527 Ext: 5127 (Taguspark campus)
Current teaching
DECISION ANALYSIS MODELS AND APPLICATIONS course (2011/2012, 1º semester) - PhD in Engineering and Management & PhD Engineering and Public Policy - Alameda campus
DECISION ANALYSIS course (2011/2012, 1º semester) - BSc Industrial and Management Engineering - Taguspark campus
INTRODUCTION TO BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING course (2011/2012, 1º semester) - MSc Biomedical Engineering - Alameda campus
Education
PhD Operational Research 1999-2003, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (thesis: Achieving Geographic Equity in the Portuguese Hospital Financing System - Summary and table of contents)
MSc Operational Research 1998/1999, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
Licenciatura in Economics 1992/1997, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto (Erasmus student at the Facultad de Ciencias Economicas Y Empresariales, Universitat de Barcelona, 1995/1996).
Areas of interest
Decision and risk analysis; management of health care systems; information systems and resource allocation in health care.
Area Editor for Decision Analysis, Health Systems journal (Palgrave MacMillan)
Articles in international journals
Mestre A., Oliveira M.D., Barbosa-Póvoa A. (forthcoming) Organizing Hospitals into Networks: A Hierarchical and Multiservice Model to Define Location, Supply and Referrals in Planned Hospital Systems, OR Spectrum. doi:10.1007/s00291-011-0272-1
Bana e Costa, C.A., Oliveira, M.D. (2012) A Multicriteria Decision Analysis Model for Faculty Evaluation. Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, 40, 424–436.
Bana e Costa, C.A., Carnero, M.C., Oliveira, M.D. (2012) A Multi-Criteria Model for Auditing a Predictive Maintenance Programme. European Journal of Operational Research, 217, 381-393.
Fialho, A., Oliveira, M.D., Sá, A.B. (2011) Using discrete event simulation to compare the performance of Family Health Unit and Primary Health Care Centre organizational models in Portugal, BMC Health Services Research. BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11:274 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-274
Airoldi, M., Bevan, G., Morton, A., Oliveira, M., Smith, J. (2008) Requisite Models for Strategic Commissioning of Type 1 Diabetes. Health Care Management Science, 11:2, 89-110.
Oliveira, M.D., Bevan, G. (2008) Modelling Hospital Costs to Produce Evidence for Policies that Promote Equity and Efficiency. European Journal of Operational Research, 185:3, 933-947.
Farinha, R., Oliveira, M.D., Sá, A.B. (2008) Networks of Primary and Secondary Care Services: How to Organize Services so as to Promote Efficiency and Quality in Access while Reducing Costs?. Quality in Primary Care, 16, 249-259.
Zechmeister, I., Kilian, R., McDaid, D. and MHEEN group (Dierckx, H., Rissanen, P., Lepine, J.-P., Becker, T., Constantoupoulos, A., Tomasson, K., Kenelly, B., Amaddeo, F., Evers, S., Halsteinli, V., Duarte-Oliveira, M., Salvador-Carulla, L., Jonsson, L., Dernovsek, M. Z., Knapp, M., Medeiros, H., Metha, A., Henderson, J., Fresu, M., Van Dievel, M., Dimitrov, H., Nawka, P., Lai, T., Murauskiene, L., Prot-Klinger, K., Simon, J., Tatar, M., Xerri, R. G.) (2008) Is it worth investing in Mental Health Promotion and Prevention of Mental Illness? A Systematic Review of the Evidence from Economic Evaluations. BMC Public Health, 8:20, 1-11.
McDaid, D., Oliveira, M. D., Jurczak, K., Knapp, M., and MHEEN Group (2007) Moving Beyond the Mental Health Care System: An Exploration of the Interfaces between Health and Non-Health Sectors. Journal of Mental Health, 16:2, 181-194.
Curran, C., Knapp, M., McDaid, D., Tómasson, K. and MHEEN group (Zechmeister, I., Dierckx, H., Kesteloot, K., Juul, L., Rissanen, P., Lepine, J.-P., Gasquet, I., Kilian, R., Becker, T., O'Donnell, O., Constantopoulos, A., O'Shea, E., Amaddeo, F., Jurczak, K., Evers, S., Halsteinli, V., Duarte-Oliveira, M., Salvador-Carulla, L., Jonsson, L., Henderson, J., Van Den Heede, P., Radulescu, R., Van Dievel, M.) (2007) Mental Health and Employment: An Overview of Patterns and Policies across Western Europe. Journal of Mental Health, 16:2, 195-209.
Evers, S., Salvador-Carulla, L., Halsteinli, V., McDaid, D. and MHEEN group (Zechmeister, I., Dierckx, H., Kesteloot, K., Juul, L., Rissanen, P., Lepine, J.-P., Gasquet, I., Kilian, R., Becker, T., O'Donnell, O., Constantopoulos, A., Tómasson, K., O'Shea, E., Amaddeo, F., Jurczak, K., Duarte-Oliveira, M., Jonsson, L., Knapp, M., Curran, C., Henderson, J., Van Den Heede, P., Radulescu, R., Van Dievel, M.) (2007) Implementing Mental Health Economic Evaluation Evidence: Building a Bridge between Theory and Practice. Journal of Mental Health, 16:2, 223-241.
Knapp, M., McDaid, D., Amaddeo, F., Constantopoulos, A., Oliveira, M., Salvador, L., Zechmeister, I. and MHEEN Group (2007) Financing Mental Health Care in Europe. Journal of Mental Health, 16:2, 167-180.
McDaid, D., Knapp, M., Curran, C. and MHEEN group (Zechmeister, I., Dierckx, H., Kesteloot, K., Juul, L., Rissanen, P., Lepine, J.P., Gasquet, I., Kilian, R., Becker, T., O'Donnell, O., Constantoupoulos, A., Tómasson, K., O'Shea, E., Amaddeo, F., Jurczak, K., Evers, S., Halsteinli, V., Duerte-Oliveira, M., Salvador-Carulla, L., Jonsson, L., Henderson, J., Van Den Heede, P., Radulescu, R., Van Dievel, M.) (2006) Meeting the Challenge of Funding and Allocating Resources to Mental Health across Europe: Developing the Mental Health Economics European Network, Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale, 15:2, 117-122.
Oliveira, M.D., Bevan, G. (2006) Modelling the Redistribution of Hospital Supply to achieve Equity taking account of Patient's Behaviour. Health Care Management Science, 9:1, 19-30.
Oliveira, M.D., Pinto, C.G. (2005) Health Care Reform in Portugal: An Evaluation of the NHS Experience. Health Economics, 14, S203-S220.
Oliveira, M.D., J. Magone, Pereira, J.A. (2005) Nondecision-Making and Inertia in Portuguese Health Policy. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30:1-2, 211-230.
Oliveira, M.D. (2004) Modelling Demand and Supply Influences on Utilisation: A Flow Demand Model to Predict Hospital Utilisation at the Small Area Level. Applied Economics, 36:20, 2237-2251.
Oliveira, M. D., Bevan, G. (2003) Measuring Geographic Inequities in the Portuguese Health Care System: An Estimation of Hospital Care Needs. Health Policy, 66:3, 177-192.
Oliveira, M.D., Rodrigues, T., Bana e Costa, C.A., Sá, A.B. (forthcoming) Prioritizing Health Care Interventions: A Multicriteria Resource Allocation Model to Inform the Choice of Community Care Programmes. In E. Tanfani and A. Testi (Editors) Advanced Decision Making Methods applied to Health Care. Springer.
Oliveira T., Oliveira M.D., Peña T. (forthcoming) An Evidence-based Framework to Guide Evaluation of Outpatient Electronic Drug Prescribing. In Cruz-Cunha, M.M. & Miranda, I. M. (Editors) Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services: Developments and Applications. IGI Global.
Mossialos, E., Thomson, S., with (alphabetical order) Busse, R., Economou, C., Giannoni-Mazzi, M., Hermesse, J., Hockley, T., Hofmarcher, M., Maarse, H., Mikkola, H., Oliveira, M., Rodríguez, M., Sandier, S., Skoglund, C., Ulmann, P., Vrangbæk, K. (2004). Voluntary Health Insurance in the European Union. Copenhagen, World Health Organization and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies: 208 pgs.
National books and articles
Oliveira, M.D. (2010) Evolução da Oferta in Simões, J. (coord.) 30 anos do SNS: um Percurso Comentado, Almedina.
Coord.: Simões, J., Barros, P.P., Pereira, J., Authors: Oliveira, M., Silva, S., Pereira, J., Simões, J., Barros, P.P., Ferreira, A.S., Ferreira, P. S., Hespanhol, A., Teixeira, M. (2008) “A Sustentabilidade Financeira do Serviço Nacional de Saúde”, Ministério da Saúde, Lisboa.
Articles published in conference proceedings
Carrasqueiro, S., Oliveira, M., Encarnação, P., Economic evaluation of telephone triage and advice services: a systematic review on methods, metrics and results, in Proceedings of the MIE 2011 - XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (Editors: Moen, A., Andersen, S.K., Aarts, J., Hurlen, P.), August 2011, Oslo, Norway. Volume 169, Pgs: 407-411.
Oliveira, M.D., Rodrigues, T.C., Bana e Costa, C.A., Brito de Sá, A., Prioritizing Health Care Interventions: A Multicriteria Resource Allocation Model to Inform the Choice of Community Care Programmes, in Proceedings of the Conference Operational Research Applied to Health Services: Operational Research Informing National Health Policy (Editors: Harper, P., Knight, V., Vieira, I., Williams, J.) July 2011. Cardiff, United Kingdom. Pgs: 155-165.
Mestre, A., Oliveira, M., Barbosa-Póvoa, A., Planning hospital networks: A dynamic and multiobjective approach, in Proceedings of the Conference Operational Research Applied to Health Services: Operational Research Informing National Health Policy (Editors: Harper, P., Knight, V., Vieira, I., Williams, J.) July 2011. Cardiff, United Kingdom. Pgs: 122-135.
Cardoso, T., Oliveira, M., Barbosa-Póvoa, A., Modelling the demand for Long-Term Care services under uncertain information, in Proceedings of the Conference Operational Research Applied to Health Services: Operational Research Informing National Health Policy (Editors: Harper, P., Knight, V., Vieira, I., Williams, J.) July 2011. Cardiff, United Kingdom. Pgs: 229-242.
Cardoso, T., Oliveira, M., Barbosa-Póvoa, A., Nickel, S. Long-Term Care services: A simulation model to predict future demand and utilization, in Proceedings of the European Operations Management Association conference, July 2011. Cambridge, Reino Unido.
Rodrigues, T.C., Oliveira, M.D., Pena, T., “Developing methods to evaluate benefits and costs of arterial spin labeling in Alzheimer’s disease”, in 15º Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional. 2011. Coimbra. pp 141-152.
Bana e Costa, C.A., Martins, P.A.F., Oliveira, M.D., Sernadas A., Soares, C.M. (2010). A Multicriteria Decision Analysis Model for Faculty Evaluation, in Proceedings 12th International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (Advances in Mathematical and Computational Methods), November 2010, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal. Pgs: 287-290.
Mestre, A., Oliveira, M., Barbosa-Póvoa, A. (2010). Hospital Network Planning under Uncertain Demand, 25th Mini-EURO Conference: Uncertainty and Robustness in Planning and Decision Making, April 2010, Coimbra, Portugal.
Figueiredo, M. S. M., Oliveira, M. D. (2009). Prioritizing Risks based on Multicriteria Decision Aid Methodology: Development of Methods applied to ALSTOM Power, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, December 2009, Hong-Kong, China.
Figueiredo, M. S. M., Oliveira, M. D. (2009) Proposta de uma Metologia Multicritério de Apoio à Decisão para Priorizar Riscos: Desenvolvimento de Métodos Aplicado à ALSTOM THERMAL SYSTEMS, In: C. Guedes Soares, C. Jacinto, A. P. Teixeira, P. Antão (Eds.), Riscos industriais e emergentes / 3º Encontro Nacional de Riscos, Segurança e Fiabilidade. Lisboa: Salamandra.
Pinto, C. G., Oliveira, M. (2001). The Portuguese Health Care System: Current Organization And Perspectives For Reform. Em CISEP -Centro de Investigação sobre Economia Portuguesa (Ed.), Como está a Economia Portuguesa? IV Conferência sobre a Economia Portuguesa (pp. 161-194), Europress, Lisboa.
Other Publications
Oliveira, M., Bevan, G., Airoldi, M., Morton, A., Smith, J. (2011) Estimating the impacts on health gains and costs from improving diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, Priority Setting for Population Health Working Paper series, LSE Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Airoldi, M., Bevan, G., Morton, A., Oliveira, M., Smith, J. (2011) Estimating the health gains and cost impact of selected interventions to reduce stroke mortality and morbidity in England, Priority Setting for Population Health Working Paper series, LSE Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Morton, A., Bevan, G., Airoldi, M., Oliveira, M., Smith, J. (2011) Estimating the health gains and cost impact of treatment for depression, Priority Setting for Population Health Working Paper series, LSE Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Oliveira, M., Bevan, G., Airoldi, M., Morton, A., Smith, J. (2011) Estimating health gains from improving prescribing statins to lower the burden of CHD, Priority Setting for Population Health Working Paper series, LSE Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Airoldi, M., Bevan, G., Morton, A., Oliveira, M., Smith, J. (2011) Estimating health and productivity gains from intensive glucose control in T1 diabetes in England, Priority Setting for Population Health Working Paper series, LSE Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Morton, A., Bevan, G., Airoldi, M., Oliveira, M., Smith, J. (2011) Assessing the productivity gains from suicide prevention, Priority Setting for Population Health Working Paper series, LSE Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Bana e Costa, C.A., Oliveira, M.D. (2010) A Multicriteria Decision Analysis Model for Faculty Evaluation, Working Paper CEG-IST no. 5/2010, Instituto Superior Técnico.
Bana e Costa, C.A., Carnero, M.C., Oliveira, M.D. (2010) A Multi-Criteria Model for Auditing a Predictive Maintenance Programme, Working Paper CEG-IST no. 4/2010, Instituto Superior Técnico.
Bevan, G., Morton, A., Airoldi, M., Oliveira, M., Smith, J. (2007) Estimating Health and Productivity Gains in England from Selected Interventions. The Health Foundation, London.
Mestre, A., Oliveira, M. D., Barbosa-Póvoa, A. (2007) Organizing Hospitals into Networks: An Hierarchical and Multiproduct Model with Application to the Portuguese Health System, Working Paper CEG-IST no. 7/2007, Instituto Superior Técnico.
Oliveira M.D. and Bevan R.G. (2005) Improving Geographic Equity: Location-Allocation Models to Redistribute Hospital Supply, Discussion Paper no. 17, LSE Health and Social Care Discussion Paper Series, UK.
Oliveira, M. (2005) Book review for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59 (7) of Healy, J. and M. Mckee, Eds. (2004). “Accessing Health Care: Responding to Diversity”. Oxford Medical Publications: Accessing Health Care. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 256 pages.
Oliveira, M. (2002) Will Hospital Management Reform in Portugal Work?, Euro Observer, 4:4, 3-5.
Oliveira, M. (2001) Insights from Portugal's Experience with Waiting Lists, Euro Observer, 3:2, 6-7.
Working PapersOliveira, M., and G. Bevan (2001) Measuring Geographic Inequalities in the Portuguese Health Care System: An Estimation of Hospital Care Need. Documento de Trabalho Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde, no. 1/2001, Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal.
Supervision
PhD
José Ferrão, Thesis Development of intelligent methodologies based on Diagnosis-Related Groups to support healthcare management, PhD in Engineering and Management (IST). Co-supervision: Filipe Janela (Siemens) and Henrique Monteiro (Hospital Fernando de Fonseca). Initiated 2011. Ongoing.
Teresa Rodrigues, Thesis Planeamento Estratégico no Sector da Saúde: Desenvolvimento de Multi-Metodologias para Estruturação e Avaliação de Projectos, PhD in Engineering and Management (IST). Supervision: Carlos Bana e Costa (IST). Co-supervision: Mónica Oliveira. Initiated 2011. Ongoing.
João Catarino, Thesis Strategic Planning of Hospital Networks, PhD in Engineering and Management (IST). Initiated 2009. Ongoing.
Teresa Cardoso, Thesis Metodologias de Apoio ao Planeamento e à Afectação de Recursos em Redes de Cuidados Continuados, PhD in Engineering and Management (IST). Co-supervision: A. Barbosa-Póvoa (IST). Initiated 2010. Ongoing.
Sara Carrasqueiro, Thesis Avaliação de Serviços: Desenvolvimento de Metodologias para Avaliação Prospectiva e Retrospectiva de Serviços de e-Health, PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering (Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa). Co-supervision: Pedro Encarnação (Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa). Initiated 2009. Ongoing.
Ana Mestre, Thesis Planeamento e Optimização de Redes de Cuidados de Saúde com Sistemas de Referenciação, PhD in Engineering and Management (IST). Co-supervision: A. Barbosa-Póvoa (IST). Initiated 2007. Ongoing.
MSc
Diana Lopes, Thesis “Developing Decision Analysis Tools to aid Primary Care Groups to allocate Budgets”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Armando Brito de Sá (FML). Concluded 2011.
Damiano Pasquetto, Thesis “Developing mathematical programming models to inform planning of palliative care services, with application to the Portuguese health care system”, Tesi di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Gestionale (Università degli Studi di Padova), Supervision: Giorgio Romanin Jacur; Co-supervision: Monica Oliveira. Concluded 2011.
Bruno Barroso, Thesis “Improving predictive maintenance in hospitals: Development of performance measurement systems using multiple criteria decision analysis”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Carlos Bana e Costa (IST). Concluded 2011.
António Almeida, Thesis "Metodologias de Identificação de Infra-estruturas Críticas com Aplicação ao caso Português", Master in Industrial Engineering and Management (IST). Co-supervision: Carlos Bana e Costa (IST). Concluded 2011.
José Ferrão, Thesis “Development of a Multicriteria Decision Aiding Model for the Allocation of Physicians’ Working Time”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Carlos Bana e Costa (IST). Concluded 2010.
Manuel Rodrigues, Thesis “Developing Methodologies to Evaluate Benefits and Costs of Arterial Spin Labeling in Alzheimer’s Disease”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Teresa Peña (IST). Concluded 2010.
Teresa Rodrigues, Thesis “Modelo Multicritério de Afectação de Recursos Humanos em Projectos de Cuidados à Comunidade”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Brito de Sá (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). Concluded 2010.
Adriana Azevedo, Thesis “Melhoria de Processos em Unidades de Cuidados de Saúde: Caso de estudo numa unidade de Medicina Nuclear Atomedical”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Barbosa-Póvoa (IST). Concluded 2010.
Tiago Quintans, Thesis "Optimização da Rede Hospitalar com Análise de Custos", Master in Industrial Engineering and Management (IST). Concluded 2010.
Teresa Cardoso, Thesis "Construção de Redes de Cuidados Continuados em Sistemas de Saúde: Desenvolvimento de Modelos com Aplicação ao Caso Português", Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Barbosa-Póvoa (IST), A. Brito de Sá (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). Concluded 2009.
Lígia Figueiredo, Thesis "Preventive Maintenance of Hospital Equipment: Multicriteria Decision Models to Prioritize Equipments in Portuguese hospitals". Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Carlos Bana e Costa (IST), Durão de Carvalho (Hospital de Santa Maria). Concluded 2009.
Joana Ferreira, Thesis "Measuring Effective and Potential Competition in the Portuguese Health Care System", Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Orientação: Margarida Catalão (IST). Co-supervision: Mónica Oliveira. Concluded 2009.
Mafalda Ramos, Thesis “Estimating Mental Health Production Functions: What does explain the Mental Health Status of the Portuguese Population?”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Pedro Pita Barros (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Concluded 2009.
Mafalda Figueiredo, Thesis “Prioritizing Risks Based on Multi-criteria Decision Aid Methodology: Development of Methods applied to ALSTOM Power Systems”, Master in Industrial Engineering and Management (IST). Concluded 2009.
Nuno Guitian, Thesis “Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to automate Polysomnography Outputs and to produce Information for Advancing Research on Sleep Disorders", Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Teresa Paiva (Centro de Electroencelografia e Neurologia Clínisca). Concluded 2008.
Marta Silva, Thesis “Proposta de um Sistema de Apoio à Decisão para comparar Intervenções em Acidentes Vasculares Cerebrais: Ganhos em Saúde por Trombólise vs Ganhos em Saúde por controlo da Hipertensão Arterial”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Brito de Sá (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). Concluded 2008.
João Poiares, Thesis “Development of a Balanced Scorecard Model to Restructure the Information System at CENC”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Teresa Paiva (Centro de Electroencelografia e Neurologia Clínica). Concluded 2008.
André Fialho, Thesis “Unidades de Saúde Familiares vs. Centros de Saúde: Desenvolvimento de um Modelo de Simulação Discreta para comparar a Performance dos dois Modelos de Organização”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Brito de Sá (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). Concluded 2008.
Tiago Oliveira, Thesis "An Evidence-based Framework for Economic Evaluation of Outpatient Electronic Drug Prescribing: An eHealth Technology Assessment Tool", Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Supervision: Teresa Peña (IST). Co-supervision: Mónica Oliveira. Concluded 2008.
Ricardo Farinha, Thesis “Developing Discrete Simulation Models to optimize Networks of Health Care Services”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Brito de Sá (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). Concluded 2007.
João Tiago Fernandes, Thesis “Development of a Decision Support Tool to inform Scheduling of patients in a Nuclear Medicine Hospital Unit”, Master in Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: Teresa Peña (IST). Concluded 2007.
Ana Mestre, Thesis “Optimização de Redes de Cuidados de Saúde: Aplicações ao caso Português”, Master in Operational Research and Information Systems (IST). Co-supervision: A. Barbosa-Póvoa (IST). Concluded 2007.
Maria Inês Melo, Thesis “Medição do Impacto da Adopção das Estatinas na Carga da Doença Evitável das Doenças Coronárias do Coração em Portugal”, BSc Biomedical Engineering (IST). Co-supervision: A. Brito de Sá (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). Concluded 2007.
Other current activities
Belongs to the Executive Board of the Departament of Engineering and Management of IST.
Co-coordinator of the PhD Engineering and Management program of IST.
Belongs to the Committee for Teaching and Research in Biomedical Engineering at IST.
Belongs to the Assembly Board of IST.
Belongs to the Directive Board of the Centro de Estudos de Gestão do IST (CEG-IST).
Is Vice-President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde, APES).
Last update 10/2011