Julio Cesar Botelho de Souza (3E17-5B0E-D686)

Curriculum Vitae

Julio Souza

Júlio Souza is an Assistant Researcher at the Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development (GECAD), a research unit hosted at the School of Engineering - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Informatics (2012), a Master Degree in Bioengeering (2015), both by University of São Paulo (Brazil), and a PhD in Clinical and Health Services Research (2019), by Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (Portugal). He was an Invited Assistant Teacher at the Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal, between 2023 and 2025. He was also member of the Health Research Network (RISE) within the Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), hosted at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, where he conducted research between 2015 and 2023 as PhD candidate and postdoctoral researcher. His professional background lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), health informatics, digital health and health Services Research. His research focuses on the application of data science and AI to healthcare data, with the utmost goal of developing tangible solutions to current health challenges and problems. He has participated in several national and international R&D projects and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams working on digital health innovation and rare disease research, contributing to the development of data-driven solutions to improve healthcare delivery and research. Research experience includes more than 11 years working along multidisciplinary teams in areas such as Publich Health, Health Economics, Digital Health, Health Services Research, Clinical Coding and Data Quality.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Julio Cesar Botelho de Souza

Citation names

Souza, Julio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3E17-5B0E-D686
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8576-1903

Email addresses

jbs@isep.ipp.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Health Policy and Services
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Health Care Sciences and Services

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/01/03 - 2019/04/23 Concluded	PhD Program in Clinical and Health Services Research (Doctor) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013/02/01 - 2015/02/25 Concluded	Master Degree in Bioengineering (Master) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2008/03/01 - 2013/01/11 Concluded	Biomedical Informatics (Bachelor) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2026/01/01 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

2021/05/01 - 2023/06/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação RISE-Health, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/18 - 2025/12/29	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/04/01 - 2021/04/30	Bolseiro Pós-Doutorado	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação RISE-Health, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/08/01 - 2021/04/30	1st.IndiQare - Quality indicators in primary health care: validation and implementation of quality indicators as an assessment and comparison tool POCI-01-0145 -FEDER-030766 PhD Student Fellow	Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2026/01/05 - Current	MedGPT - Medical GPT Revolutionizing Healthcare with Ethical AI NORTE2030-FEDER-01414600 Researcher Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal	Ongoing
2024/01/01 - 2026/06/30	RM4HEALTH - Remote Monitoring in Health and Sports ITEA-2021-21022-RM4Health Researcher	Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Health Research Network: From Lab to Community Health LA/P/0053/2020 10.54499/LA/P/0053/2020 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro Cardiovascular, Portugal Universidade da Madeira, Portugal Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil Centro de Investigação, Portugal Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Rede de Investigação em Saúde: do Laboratório à Saúde Comunitária LA/P/0053/2020 10.54499/LA/P/0053/2020 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro Cardiovascular, Portugal Universidade da Madeira, Portugal Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil Centro de Investigação, Portugal Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Center for Health Technology and Services Research UIDB/04255/2020 10.54499/UIDB/04255/2020 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal Universidade da Madeira, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2022/12/01 - 2023/06/30	Secur-e-health – Privacy-preserving cross-organizational data analysis in the healthcare sector NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-181418 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded
2021/05/01 - 2023/06/30	INNO4HEALTH Stimulate continuous monitoring in personal and physical health. EUREKA-ITEA3: 19008; POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069523 Post-doc Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/09/23 - 2022/12/31	Clikode - Automatic Processing of Clinical Coding, Innovation, Research of AI models for hospital coding of Procedures and Diagnoses POCI-05-5762-FSE-000230 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Rafael Martins; Luís Conceição; Gustavo Corrente; William Xavier; Júlio Souza; Alberto Freitas; Goreti Marreiros. "Multi-class Model to Predict Pain on Lower Limb Intermittent Claudication Patients". 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-60218-4_5 Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Rita Rb-Silva; Jose Miguel Diniz; Julio Souza; Alberto Freitas. "Use of Decentralized-Learning Methods Applied to Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis". 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-36024-4_25 Julio Souza; Sara Escadas; Daniel Rodrigues; Alberto Freitas. "Smart Wearable Systems for the Remote Monitoring of Venous and Diabetic Foot Ulcers: State of the Art". 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-22356-3_10 Rita Rb-Silva; Xavier Ribeiro; Francisca Almeida; Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Julio Souza; Luis Conceição; Tiago Taveira-Gomes; Goreti Marreiros; Alberto Freitas. "Secur-e-Health Project: Towards Federated Learning for Smart Pediatric Care". 2023. 10.3233/SHTI230196 Freitas, Alberto; Souza, Julio; Caballero, Ismael. "Data Governance in the Health Sector". In Data Governance, 215-231. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-43773-1_11 Escadas, Sara; Souza, Julio; Vieira, Ana; Conceição, Luís; Sampaio, Sérgio; Freitas, Alberto. "Requirement Specification for a Remote Monitoring System to Support the Management of Vascular Diseases". In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 699-710. Springer International Publishing, 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5_69 Ismael Caballero; Júlio Souza; Fernando Lopes; João Vasco Santos; Alberto Freitas. "Towards a Process Reference Model for Clinical Coding". 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-14179-9_13 A. Ramalho; J. Souza; A. Freitas. "The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Coding Automation: A Bibliometric Analysis". 274-283. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-53036-5_30 J. Souza; I. Caballero; J. V. Santos; M. F. Lobo; A. Pinto; J. Viana; C. Saez; A. Freitas. "Measuring Variability in Acute Myocardial Infarction Coding Using a Statistical Process Control and Probabilistic Temporal Data Quality Control Approaches". 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-72651-5_19 Ana Vieira; João Carneiro; Luís Conceição; Constantino Martins; Julio Souza; Alberto Freitas; Goreti Marreiros. "Defining an Architecture for a Remote Monitoring Platform to Support the Self-management of Vascular Diseases". 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-85710-3_14 M. F. Lobo; M. Oliveira; A. R. Oliveira; J. V. Santos; V. Alonso; F. Lopes; A. Ramalho; et al. "Protocol for Analysis of Root Causes of Problems Affecting the Quality of the Diagnosis Related Group-Based Hospital Data: A Rapid Review and Delphi Process". 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-45688-7_10
Conference paper	Lima, Vinícius; Bernardi, Filipe; Rijo, Rui; Freitas, Alberto; Félix, Têmis; Schwartz, Ida; Rodrigues, Adulai; et al. Corresponding author: Lima, Vinícius. "Rare Diseases in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries: Mapping, Advances in Digital Health, and International Cooperation". 2025. 10.1109/cbms65348.2025.00155 Souza, Julio; Vieira, Ana; Conceição, Luís; Martins, Rafael; Rodrigues, Daniel; Corrente, Gustavo; Xavier, William; et al. "A Remote Monitoring Platform for the Management of Lower Limb Vascular Diseases". 2023. 10.3233/shti230330 Diana Pimenta; Julio Souza; Ismael Caballero; Alberto Freitas. "Toward the Measure of Credibility of Hospital Administrative Datasets in the Context of DRG Classification". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-29238-6_21 Souza, J.; Santos, J.V.; Lopes, F.; Viana, J.; Freitas, A.. "Miscoding alerts within hospital datasets: An unsupervised machine learning approach". 2018. 10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_115
Journal article	Rita Ribeiro; Rafael Martins; Hugo Pereira; Vítor Crista; Júlio Souza; Rute Almeida; Diogo Martinho; et al. Corresponding author: Ribeiro, Rita. "A systematic review on wearable-enabled remote health monitoring". DIGITAL HEALTH (2026): https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076261428387. Under revision • 10.1177/20552076261428387 Nayara Ribeiro Gomes; Bárbara Antunes Rezende; Júlio Botelho de Souza; Alberto Freitas; Adriane Mesquita de Medeiros. "Perception of Brazilian and Portuguese teachers about the relationship between work and physical and mental health: analysis of associated individual and work-related factors". CoDAS (2026): https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/e20240399en. 10.1590/2317-1782/e20240399en Diego Bettiol Yamada; Tatiana Takahasi Komoto; Vinícius Costa Lima; Julio Souza; Michele Seixas; Victor Cassão; Victor Evangelista Ferraz; et al. "Main Recommendations for Developing Educational and Awareness Strategies in the Context of Rare Diseases: A Scoping Review (Preprint)". JMIR Medical Education (2025): https://doi.org/10.2196/79027. 10.2196/79027 Diego Bettiol Yamada; Filipe Andrade Bernardi; Vinícius Costa Lima; Julio Souza; João Francisco Baiochi; Victor Cassão; Victor Evangelista de Faria Ferraz; Domingos Alves. "The Brazilian Knowledge Management Model: A Proposal to Support Rare Diseases Education and Awareness Processes". Procedia Computer Science (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.02.246. 10.1016/j.procs.2025.02.246 Filipa Santos Martins; Fernando Lopes; Júlio Souza; Alberto Freitas; João Vasco Santos. "Perceptions of Portuguese medical coders on the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS: A national survey". Health Information Management Journal (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/18333583231180294. 10.1177/18333583231180294 José Miguel Diniz; Henrique Vasconcelos; Júlio Souza; Rita Rb-Silva; Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Alberto Freitas. "Comparing Decentralized Learning Methods for Health Data Models to Nondecentralized Alternatives: Protocol for a Systematic Review". JMIR Research Protocols (2023): https://doi.org/10.2196/45823. 10.2196/45823 João Vasco Santos; Filipa Santos Martins; Joana Pestana; Júlio Souza; Alberto Freitas; Jonathan Cylus. "Should we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis". Health Economics Review (2023): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-023-00421-2. 10.1186/s13561-023-00421-2 Júlio Souza; Ismael Caballero; João Vasco Santos; Mariana Lobo; Andreia Pinto; João Viana; Carlos Sáez; Fernando Lopes; Alberto Freitas. "Multisource and temporal variability in Portuguese hospital administrative datasets: Data quality implications". Journal of Biomedical Informatics 136 (2022): 104242-104242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104242. 10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104242 Julio Souza; Sara Escadas; Isidora Baxevani; Daniel Rodrigues; Alberto Freitas. "Smart Wearable Systems for the Remote Monitoring of Selected Vascular Disorders of the Lower Extremity: A Systematic Review". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 22 (2022): 15231-15231. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215231. 10.3390/ijerph192215231 Roberto Carvalho; Mariana Lobo; Mariana Oliveira; Ana Raquel Oliveira; Fernando Lopes; Júlio Souza; André Ramalho; et al. "Analysis of Root Causes of Problems Affecting the Quality Hospital Administrative Data: A Systematic Review and Ishikawa Diagram". International Journal of Medical Informatics (2021): 104584-104584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104584. 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104584 Andre Ramalho; Julio Souza; Pedro Castro; Mariana Lobo; Paulo Santos; Alberto Freitas. "Portuguese Primary Healthcare and Prevention Quality Indicators for Diabetes Mellitus – A Data Envelopment Analysis". International Journal of Health Policy and Management (2021): https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2021.76. 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.76 A. Ramalho; P. Castro; M. Lobo; J. Souza; P. Santos; A. Freitas. "Integrated quality assessment for diabetes care in Portuguese primary health care using prevention quality indicators". Primary Care Diabetes (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2021.01.001. 10.1016/j.pcd.2021.01.001 Andre Ramalho; Mariana Lobo; Lia Duarte; Julio Souza; Paulo Santos; Alberto Freitas. "Landscapes on Prevention Quality Indicators: A Spatial Analysis of Diabetes Preventable Hospitalizations in Portugal (2016–2017)". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228387. 10.3390/ijerph17228387 Andreia Pinto; João Vasco Santos; Júlio Souza; João Viana; Cristina Costa Santos; Mariana Lobo; Alberto Freitas. "Comparison and Impact of Four Different Methodologies for Identification of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 21 (2020): 8121-8121. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218121. 10.3390/ijerph17218121 Julio Souza; Diana Pimenta; Ismael Caballero; Alberto Freitas. "Measuring data credibility and medical coding: a case study using a nationwide Portuguese inpatient database". Software Quality Journal 28 3 (2020): 1043-1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-020-09504-3. 10.1007/s11219-020-09504-3 Santos, João Vasco; Lobo, Mariana; Neiva, Rui Manuel; Viana, João; Souza, Júlio; Dias, Cláudia Camila; Cylus, Jonathan; Ricciardi, Walter; Freitas, Alberto. "European Union state of health from 1990 to 2017: time trends and its enlargements’ effects". International Journal of Public Health 65 2 (2020): 175-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01335-0. 10.1007/s00038-020-01335-0 Santos, João Vasco; Souza, Júlio; Valente, José; Alonso, Vera; Ramalho, André; Viana, João; Ricciardi, Walter; Freitas, Alberto. "The state of health in the European Union (EU-28) in 2017: an analysis of the burden of diseases and injuries". European Journal of Public Health (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz203. 10.1093/eurpub/ckz203 Julio Souza; João Vasco Santos; Fernando Lopes; Alberto Freitas. "Quality of coding within clinical datasets: A case-study using burn-related hospitalizations". Burns (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.013. 10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.013 Souza, Julio; Santos, João Vasco; Canedo, Veronica Bolon; Betanzos, Amparo; Alves, Domingos; Freitas, Alberto. "Importance of coding co-morbidities for APR-DRG assignment: Focus on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases". Health Information Management Journal 49 1 (2019): 47-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1833358319840575. 10.1177/1833358319840575 Martinho-Dias, D.; Sousa-Pinto, B.; Botelho-Souza, J.; Soares, A.; Delgado, L.; Fonseca, J.A.. "Publication trends of Allergy, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, and Clinical and Translational Allergy journals: A MeSH term-based bibliometric analysis". Clinical and Translational Allergy 8 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042376656&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1186/s13601-018-0191-1 Viana, J.; Santos, J.V.; Neiva, R.M.; Souza, J.; Duarte, L.; Teodoro, A.C.; Freitas, A.. "Remote sensing in human health: A 10-year bibliometric analysis". Remote Sensing 9 12 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85038211402&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3390/rs9121225 Santos, J.V.; Souza, J.; Amarante, J.; Freitas, A.. "Burden of Burns in Brazil from 2000 to 2014: A Nationwide Hospital-Based Study". World Journal of Surgery 41 8 (2017): 2006-2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016112899&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00268-017-3988-5
Preprint	Diego Bettiol Yamada; Tatiana Takahasi Komoto; Vinícius Costa Lima; Julio Souza; Michele Seixas; Victor Cassão; Victor Evangelista Ferraz; Bibiana Mello de Oliveira; Domingos Alves. "Core Guidelines and Recommendations for Developing Educational and Awareness Strategies in the Context of Rare Diseases: A Scoping Review (Preprint)". 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.79027. 10.2196/preprints.79027 José Miguel Diniz; Henrique Vasconcelos; Júlio Souza; Rita Rb-Silva; Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Alberto Freitas. "Comparing Decentralized Learning Methods for Health Data Models to Nondecentralized Alternatives: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint)". 2023. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.45823. 10.2196/preprints.45823

Other

Dataset	Gonçalo Pinto; Vítor Crista; Aida Regina Jesus Silva; Julio Souza; Luís Conceição; Goreti Marreiros; Filipe Andrade Bernardi; Rute Almeida; Bruno Costa. Low-risk Pregnant patients - Synthetic Dataset. 2026. 10.5281/ZENODO.19472145
Software	Daniel Martinho-Dias; Souza, Julio; Soares, António; da Costa-Pereira, Altamiro. "Syn4Data - A novel tool for the synthesis and visualization of research topics in scientific projects and publications". Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina. 2016.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/11/28	“Artificial Intelligence in Rare Disease Phenotyping: A Systematic Review Protocol”	HCist - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies 2025 Association for Information Systems (AIS) (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
2025/09/04	“Translation of Human Phenotype Ontology terms to the Portuguese language: a machine supported approach”	QUATIC 2025 - 18th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology Nova Information Management School (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/09/11	Toward the measure of credibility of hospital administrative datasets in the context of DRG classification	12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (Ciudad Real, Spain)
2017/11/09	Syn4Data: a novel analytical and visualization online tool for the description and synthesis of scientific research topics	Projman 2017 - International Conference on Project Management (Barcelona, Spain)
2016/12/12	Health care system efficiency and burden of disease: An international comparison using Distance Direction Function”	15th edition of the “Conferência Nacional de Economia em Saúde” (CNES) (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/10/03 - Current	Aprendizado de máquina baseado em dados genômicos em doenças raras: diagnóstico e outros desfechos (" Machine learning applied to genomic data in rare diseases: diagnosis and other outcomes.") Co-supervisor	Informática Biomédica (Degree) Universidade de São Paulo - Câmpus de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2025/10/03 - Current	Inteligência Artificial Aplicada à Doenças Raras: Análise de Dados e Integração de Inteligência Artificial para Auxílio ao Diagnóstico ("Artificial Intelligence Applied to Rare Diseases: Data Analysis and Integration of Artificial Intelligence for Diagnosis Support") Co-supervisor	Informática Biomédica (Degree) Universidade de São Paulo - Câmpus de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2025/10/03 - Current	Predição diagnóstica a partir de perfis fenotípicos com XGboost: uma abordagem para identificação de doenças raras ("Diagnostic prediction from phenotypic profiles with XGboost: an approach for identifying rare diseases"). Co-supervisor	Informática Biomédica (Degree) Universidade de São Paulo - Câmpus de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2024/08/08 - Current	Interoperabilidade em instituições de saúde no Brasil: framework para identificar estágios de maturidade ("Interoperability in healthcare institutions in Brazil: a framework for identifying stages of maturity") Co-supervisor	Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Pública (PhD) Universidade de São Paulo - Câmpus de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2022/04 - 2022/07	Student Mobility for Traineeships Erasmus + ("Inno4health - Stimulate continuous monitoring in personal and physical health") Supervisor	Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018/10/17 - 2019/11/28	Data mining na deteção de outliers na codificação clínica: estudo em internamentos com pneumonia Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
2016/02/05 - 2017/12/14	Utilização de Text Mining para Apoio à Classificação de Registos de Alergias e Reações Adversas Co-supervisor of Mélanie Gonçalves de Castro	Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025/09/09	Impact and future role of LLMs in clinical coding: A bibliometric review (Thesis) Main arguer	Jorge Miguel Rebelo da Fonseca (Master) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/11/17	Desenvolvimento de um sistema inteligente para suporte e monitorização de pacientes com doenças vasculares (Thesis) Arguer	Ivo Alexandre Maia Curado (Master) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/12	Analysing the impact of Multimorbidity on health outcomes among stomach cancer hospitalizations Supervisor	Beatriz Maria Moutinho da Costa e Carvalho Ribeiro (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/09	Identificação de padrões de multimorbilidade em hospitalizações por Pneumonia por meio da análise de cluster Supervisor	Madalena da Graça Vilar da Silva (Other) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/07	“INNO4FOOT- Sistema Weareable para Monitorização de Úlceras Venosas e Úlceras do Pé Diabético Supervisor	Cristiana Almeida Rocha (Other) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/07	Physician Availability In Pediatric Emergency Services Supervisor	Gonçalo Fernandes (Other) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2020/12/17	"Aplicação de técnicas de data mining para prever a mortalidade e o período de estadia hospitalares no contexto do enfarte agudo do miocárdio Supervisor	Ana Raquel Santos Oliveira (Master) Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal