Personal identification

Full name

Sónia Isabel do Vale Fernandes

Citation names

• do Vale, Sónia
• Vale, Sónia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

0E1A-AE02-05AB

ORCID iD

0000-0001-9287-4095

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)		Upper intermediate (B2)

	Degree	Classification
2011 Concluded	Doenças Metabólicas e Comportamento Alimentar (Doutoramento) Major in Ramo/Especialidade: Medicina, especialidade de Endocrinologia Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "Effects of Dehydroepiandrosterone on Cognition:an Electrophysiological Approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008 - 2009 Concluded	Doenças Metabólicas e Comportamento Alimentar (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Lisboa - Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa , Portugal	19
1997 Concluded	Licenciatura em Medicina (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal	16,3

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2003 - 2017	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/02/20 - Current	Diretora da Clínica Universitária de Endocrinologia	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019 - Current	Diretora do Programa Nacional (PND) para a Diabetes	Programa Nacional (PND) para a Diabetes/ Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), Portugal
2015 - Current	Assistente Hospitalar Graduada de Endocrinologia	Hospital de Santa Maria/ Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (CHULN) EPE, Portugal
	Hospital de Santa Maria/ Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (CHULN), Portugal

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/02 - 2026/02	Care4Diabetes EU4H-2021-C4D-08.1 Principal investigator Programa Nacional (PND) para a Diabetes/ Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2011 - 2018	“The effects of the emotional context and working memory load on levels of DHEA, DHEAS, CRH and cortisol and their electrophysiological correlates” CDS2007-00012 SGR2009-11 e SGR2014-177 Principal investigator	Concluded

Publications

Journal article

Matos T; Costa C; Araújo AN; do Vale S. "Clinical course and endocrine dysfunction in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy: A case series.". Endocrinologia, diabetes y nutricion (2023): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/37356877. 10.1016/j.endien.2022.01.010 Figueiredo AR; Matos T; do Vale S. "Monitoring of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion treatment in Portugal and its implications for diabetes management.". Hormones (Athens, Greece) (2022): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/36336764. 10.1007/s42000-022-00412-8 Matos, Tania; Rocha, Jose Vicente; Barreira, Sofia C.; do Vale, Sonia; Bugalho, Maria Joao. "Connective tissue disease as a cause of discrepant capillary and serum glucose levels - a case report". Hormones (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/54615328/. 10.1007/S42000-022-00375-W Costa, C.; Matos, T.; López-Presa, D.; Miguéns, J.; Do Vale, S.. "Thyrotropin-secreting microadenoma and the importance of a prompt diagnosis: A case report". Hippokratia 26 4 (2022): 157-160. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85166082251&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Tânia Matos; Margarida Mendes de Almeida; Lucas Batista; Sónia do Vale. "IgG4-related disease of the thyroid gland". BMJ Case Reports (2021): https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-238177. 10.1136/bcr-2020-238177 Marcalo, Jose; Oliveira, Anabela; Nunes, Patricia Almeida; do Vale, Sonia. "Type la glycogen storage disease complicated with diabetes mellitus: the role of flash continuous glucose monitoring". BMJ Case Reports (2021): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/43745024/. 10.1136/BCR-2020-240489 Joana Figueiredo; Margarida Serrado; Nikita Khmelinskii; Sónia do Vale; Figueiredo, Joana; Serrado, Margarida; Khmelinskii, Nikita; Vale, Sónia do. "Iatrogenic Cushing syndrome and multifocal osteonecrosis caused by the interaction between inhaled fluticasone and ritonavir". BMJ Case Reports (2020): https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-233712. 10.1136/bcr-2019-233712 Matos T; Costa C; do Vale S; Bugalho M. "SAT-237 Isolated Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism in a Male with Sarcoidosis". Journal of the Endocrine Society (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/PMC/PMC7208885. David Cordeiro Sousa; Inês Leal; Susana Moreira; Sónia do Vale; Ana R. Silva-Herdade; Patrícia Dionísio; Miguel A. R. B. Castanho; Luís Abegão Pinto; Carlos Marques-Neves. "Optical coherence tomography angiography study of the retinal vascular plexuses in type 1 diabetes without retinopathy". Eye 34 2 (2020): 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-019-0513-0. 10.1038/s41433-019-0513-0 Melo, Pedro; Abreu, Silvestre; Barros, Luisa; Do Vale, Sónia; Freitas, Paula; Carvalho, Davide. "Guidelines - Recomendações da SPEDM- Vacinação contra infecções por Streptococcus pneumoniae em Adultos com Diabetes Mellitus da Sociedade Portuguesa de Endocrinologia". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/33136. 10.26497/na200031 Sousa, David Cordeiro; Leal, Ines; Moreira, Susana; Vale, Sónia do; Silva-Herdade, Ana S.; Aguiar, Patrício; Dionísio, Patrícia; et al. "Retinal vascular reactivity in type 1 diabetes patients without retinopathy using optical coherence tomography angiography". Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44630. 10.1167/iovs.61.6.49 Sousa, David Cordeiro; Leal, Ines; Moreira, Susana; Vale, Sónia do; Silva-Herdade, Ana S.; Aguiar, Patrício; Dionísio, Patrícia; et al. "A protocol to evaluate retinal vascular response using optical coherence tomography angiography". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44631. 10.3389/fnins.2019.00566 do Vale S; Escera C. "Dehydroepiandrosterone and Dehydroepiandrosterone-Sulfate and Emotional Processing.". Vitamins and hormones (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30029737. 10.1016/bs.vh.2018.01.022 Guimarães, Tatiana; Nobre Menezes, Miguel; Cruz, Diogo; do Vale, Sónia; Bordalo, Armando; Veiga, Arminda; Pinto, Fausto J.; Brito, Dulce. "Hypercalcemic crisis and primary hyperparathyroidism: Cause of an unusual electrical storm.". Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia 36 12 (2017): 959.e1-959.e5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repc.2016.12.015. 10.1016/j.repc.2016.12.015 Gaspar da Costa, Pedro; Duarte Silva, Filipa; Henriques, Júlia; do Vale, Sónia; Braz, Sandra; Meneses Santos, João; M.M. Victorino, Rui; Vale, Sónia do. "Methimazole associated eosinophilic pleural effusion: a case report". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45190. 10.1186/s40360-017-0121-1 Sónia do Vale; Lenka Selinger; João Martin Martins; Manuel Bicho; Isabel do Carmo; Carles Escera. "Hormonal modulation of novelty processing in women: Enhanced under working memory load with high dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate-to-dehydroepiandrosterone ratios". Neuroscience Letters 634 (2016): 98-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2016.10.002. 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.10.002 Martins, Ana Filipa; Martins, João Martin; Do Vale, Sónia; Miltenberger-Miltenyi, Gabriel. "A new mutation in thyroid hormone resistance". Problems of Endocrinology 62 5 (2016): 78-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.14341/probl201662578-79. 10.14341/probl201662578-79 Martins, A.F.; Martins, J.M.; do Vale, S.; Dias, T.; Silveira, C.; da Silva, I.R.; Carmo-Fonseca, M.. "A rare missense variant in RET exon 8 in a portuguese family with atypical multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A". Hormones 15 3 (2016): 435-440. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84992388743&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.14310/horm.2002.1691 Plácido, Rui; Martins, Ana Filipa; Robalo Martins, Susana; do Vale, Sónia; Almeida, Ana G.; Pinto, Fausto; Martin Martins, João. "Takotsubo Syndrome: A Pathway through the Pituitary Disease". Case Reports in Cardiology 2016 (2016): 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9219018. 10.1155/2016/9219018 Gonçalves A; Vale S; Nobre E; Barbosa AP; Piloto E; Wessling A; Mascarenhas M. "Thyroid nodule: first manifestation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.". Archives of endocrinology and metabolism (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25993684. 10.1590/2359-3997000000034 do Vale, Só.; Selinger, L.; Martins, J.M.; Bicho, M.; do Carmo, I.; Escera, C.. "Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing - A behavioral and electrophysiological approach". Hormones and Behavior 73 (2015): 94-103. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84937019763&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.005 Martins, Ana Filipa; Martins, Joao Martin; do Vale, Sonia; Juhlin, Cristopher; Batista, Lucas; Franco, Marco; Lopez-Presa, Dolores; Miltenberger-Miltenyi, Gabriel. "Soft Tissue Metastasis of Parathyroid Carcinoma: Description of a Difficult Case". Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 5 1-2 (2015): 184-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jem240w. 10.14740/jem240w Do Vale, S.; Selinger, L.; Martins, J.M.; Gomes, A.C.; Bicho, M.; Do Carmo, I.; Escera, C.. "The relationship between dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), working memory and distraction - A behavioral and electrophysiological approach". PLoS ONE 9 8 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905671673&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1371/journal.pone.0104869 Martins, João Martin; Vale, Sónia do; Martins, Ana Filipa. "Mild adrenal steroidogenic defects and ACTH-dependent aldosterone secretion in high blood pressure : preliminary evidence". (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45188. 10.1155/2014/295724 Ferreira, Florbela; Martins, João Martin; Vale, Sónia do; Esteves, Rui; Nunes, José Garção; Carmo, Isabel Do. "Rare and severe complications of congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency : a case report". (2013): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45187. 10.1186/1752-1947-7-39 Andreasson, A.; Sulaiman, L.; Do Vale, S.; Martins, J.M.; Ferreira, F.; Miltenberger-Miltenyi, G.; Batista, L.; et al. "Molecular characterization of parathyroid tumors from two patients with hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes". Familial Cancer 11 3 (2012): 355-362. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84870424300&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10689-012-9520-z do Vale S; Martin Martins J; Fagundes MJ; do Carmo I. "Plasma dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate is related to personality and stress response.". Neuro endocrinology letters (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21876493. Do Vale, S.; Martins, J.M.; Fagundes, M.J.; Do Carmo, I.. "Plasma dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate is related to personality and stress response". Neuroendocrinology Letters 32 4 (2011): 442-448. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80053534920&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Martin Martins J; Vale Sd; Ferreira F; Fagundes MJ; Carmo Id; Saldanha C; Martins E Silva J. "Plasma corticotropin releasing hormone during the feeling of induced emotions.". Neuro endocrinology letters (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20424581. Martins, João Martin; Vale, Sónia do; Ferreira, Florbela; Fagundes, Maria João; Carmo, Isabel do; Saldanha, Carlota; Martins e Silva, J.; et al. "Plasma corticotropin releasing hormone during the feeling of induced emotions". Neuroendocrinology Letters 31 2 (2010): 250-255. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/17684. Martin Martins, J.; Do Vale, S.; Trinca, A.; Saldanha, C.; Martins E Silva, J.. "Personality, manual preference and neuroendocrine reactivity in hirsute subjects". Physiology and Behavior 82 4 (2004): 741-749. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-4344717734&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.06.015 Martins, J.Martin; Alves, J.; Trinca, A.; Grima, B.; Do Vale, S.; Vasconcelos, T.; Riso, N.; Riscado, V.; Da Costa, J.Charneco. "Personality, brain asymmetry, and neuroendocrine reactivity in two immune-mediated disorders: A preliminary report". Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 16 4 (2002): 383-397. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036430158&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1006/brbi.2001.0636 Martins, J.M.; Trinca, A.; Afonso, A.; Carreiras, F.; Falcaão, J.; Nunes, J.S.; Do Vale, S.; Da Costa, J.C.. "Psychoneuroendocrine characteristics of common obesity clinical subtypes". International Journal of Obesity 25 1 (2001): 24-32. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035122401&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801500

Thesis / Dissertation

Fernandes, Sónia Isabel do Vale, 1973-. "Effects of dehydroepiandrosterone on cognition : an electrophysiological approach". PhD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/27184.