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Diogo Alexandre Santos Ferreira. Completed the Master Degree in Medicine in 2017 at University of Porto, Faculty of Medicine. Currently attending the Doctoral Program in Cardiovascular Sciences at University of Porto, Faculty of Medicine. Researcher at University of Porto, Cardiovascular Research and Development Unit (UnIC), and Invited Assistant at the University of Porto, Faculty of Medicine. Cardiology Resident at Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE. Authors and co-authors 11 articles in specialized magazines, and 1 scientific book chapter. Received 7 awards and/or honors. Currently participating in 3 scientific projects.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Diogo Alexandre Santos Ferreira
Date of birth
1993/08/20
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Diogo
  • Santos-Ferreira, Diogo
  • Diogo Santos-Ferreira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
571E-EE7B-F86C
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1428-1651

Email addresses

  • diogoasantosferreira@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Department of Cardiology, Gaia Hospital Centre, Rua Conceição Fernandes, 4434-502, Vila Nova de Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (Professional)
  • Cardiovascular R&D Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Physiology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2023
Ongoing
 Doctoral Programme in Cardiovascular Sciences (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022
Concluded
 European Examination in Core Cardiology (Outros)
Société Européenne de Cardiologie, France
2011 - 2017
Concluded
 Master Degree in Medicine (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Modulation of Iris Sphincter and Ciliary Muscles Relaxation by Urocortin 2" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/11/01 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Cardiology Resident Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Portugal
Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Intern Year Physician Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Portugal
Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2023/09/30 Coronary Artery Disease Numerical Simulation and Functional Assessment by Advanced Computed Tomography
PTDC/EMD-EMD/0980/2020
Researcher
Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2022/09/15 - Current Dapagliflozin, Spironolactone or Both for HFpEF (SOGALDI-PEF)
.
Researcher
2019 - Current The integration of Digital Flashcards in the teaching of Physiology and the relevance of the Learning Analytics principles, in articulation with medical practice of the 21st century
.
PhD Student Fellow
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Moreira, Emília; Santos-Ferreira, Diogo; Leite-Moreira, Adelino; Silva-Cardoso, José. "Recent therapeutic developments in heart failure". In Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2023.
    Accepted
Journal article
  1. Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Bruno Guimarães; Ricardo Ladeiras-Lopes; Pedro Gonçalves-Teixeira; Sílvia Oliveira Diaz; Pedro Ferreira; Francisco Gonçalves; et al. "Digital flashcards and medical physiology performance - a dose-dependent effect". Advances in Physiology Education (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/advan.00138.2023.
    10.1152/advan.00138.2023
  2. Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Isabel Fernandes; Sílvia O. Diaz; Cláudio Guerreiro; Francisca Saraiva; António S. Barros; Adelino Leite-Moreira; et al. "Prognostic value of flow-status in severe aortic stenosis patients undergoing percutaneous intervention". The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10554-023-02992-x.
    10.1007/s10554-023-02992-x
  3. Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Sílvia O. Diaz; João Pedro Ferreira; Nicolas Girerd; Pierpaolo Pellicori; Beatrice Mariottoni; Franco Cosmi; et al. "Phenotyping patients with ischaemic heart disease at risk of developing heart failure: an analysis of the HOMAGE trial". ESC Heart Failure (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.14465.
    10.1002/ehf2.14465
  4. Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho. "Heart failure care: The time has come to tackle the cardiovascular “epidemic” of the XXI century". Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia 42 11 (2023): 893-894. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repc.2023.09.002.
    10.1016/j.repc.2023.09.002
  5. Aguiar-Neves, Inês; Santos-Ferreira, Diogo; Fontes-Carvalho, Ricardo. "SGLT2 Inhibition in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction — The New Frontier". Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine 24 1 (2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2401001.
    10.31083/j.rcm2401001
  6. Diogo Ferreira. "Guideline-directed medical therapy in patients undergoing transcatheter edge-to-edge repair for secondary mitral regurgitation". European Journal of Heart Failure (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.2613.
    10.1002/ejhf.2613
  7. Ricardo Ladeiras-Lopes; Rafael Vidal-Perez; Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Michael Alexander; Lavinia Baciu; Sarah Clarke; Filippo Crea; Thomas Felix Lüscher. "Twitter promotion is associated with higher citation rates of cardiovascular articles: the ESC Journals Randomized Study". European Heart Journal (2022): https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac150.
    10.1093/eurheartj/ehac150
  8. Gonçalves-Teixeira, Pedro; Costa, Telma; Fragoso, Isabel; Ferreira, Diogo; Brandão, Mariana; Leite-Moreira, Adelino; Sampaio, Francisco; Ribeiro, José; Fontes-Carvalho, Ricardo. "Rastreamento, Diagnóstico e Manejo da Fibrilação Atrial em Pacientes com Câncer: Evidências Atuais e Perspectivas Futuras". Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 119 2 (2022): 328-341. http://dx.doi.org/10.36660/abc.20201362.
    10.36660/abc.20201362
  9. Santos-Ferreira, Diogo; Ladeiras-Lopes, Ricardo; Eulália Pereira; Fontes-Carvalho, Ricardo. "Clinical valve thrombosis post-TAVI with hypoattenuating leaflet thickening in CT: anticoagulation is the answer". European Heart Journal - Case Reports (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytab318.
    10.1093/ehjcr/ytab318
  10. Ladeiras-Lopes, Ricardo; Sampaio, Francisco; Leite, Sara; Santos-Ferreira, Diogo; Vilela, Eduardo; ADELINO LEITE-MOREIRA; Bettencourt, Nuno; et al. "Metformin in non-diabetic patients with metabolic syndrome and diastolic dysfunction: the MET-DIME randomized trial". Endocrine 72 3 (2021): 699-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12020-021-02687-0.
    10.1007/s12020-021-02687-0
  11. Fontes-Carvalho, Ricardo; Santos-Ferreira, Diogo; Itamar Raz; Nikolaus Marx; Frank Ruschitzka; Francesco Cosentino. "Protective effects of SGLT-2 inhibitors across the cardiorenal continuum: two faces of the same coin.". European journal of preventive cardiology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwab034.
    10.1093/eurjpc/zwab034
  12. Santos, Raquel Sofia; Carvalho, Ana Cristina; Tsisar, Stanislav; Bastos, Ana Raquel; Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Ferreira, Maria Amélia; Povo, Ana; Guimarães, Bruno. "How Computer-Assisted Learning Influences Medical Students' Performance in Anatomy Courses". Anatomical Sciences Education (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ase.1997.
    10.1002/ase.1997
  13. Santos-Ferreira, Diogo; ADELINO LEITE-MOREIRA. "Insuficiência atrial como uma entidade clínica - Comentário Editorial". JACC Portuguese Edition 1 12 (2020): 58-60. https://jacc.elsevier.pt/index.php?p=revista&tipo=pdf-simple&pii=XY735109720003830.
    Open access • Published
  14. Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Pedro Gonçalves-Teixeira; Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho. "SGLT-2 Inhibitors in Heart Failure and Type-2 Diabetes: Hitting Two Birds with One Stone?". Cardiology (2019): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1159/000504694.
    10.1159/000504694
  15. Tavares-Silva, Marta; Diogo Santos-Ferreira; Sandra Cardoso; Ana Rita Raimundo; Barbosa Breda, João; ADELINO F. LEITE-MOREIRA; Rocha-Sousa, A. "Modulation of Iris Sphincter and Ciliary Muscles by Urocortin 2". Physiological Research (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.33549/physiolres.933646.
    10.33549/physiolres.933646
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/05/22 Predictors of functional recovery after percutaneous aortic valve implantation for severe aortic stenosis: data from 459 cases Heart Failure 2022
European Society of Cardiology (Madrid, Spain)
2022/05 Predictors of functional recovery after mitral transcatheter edge to edge repair for mitral regurgitation: an analysis of 86 cases Heart Failure 2022
European Society of Cardiology (Madrid, Spain)
2022/04/29 Sessão Plenária - Cardiologia Open Resident Day
Centro Hospitalar de Entre Douro e Vouga (Porto, Portugal)
2022/04/24 Predictors of functional recovery after percutaneous aortic valve implantation – data from 459 cases Congresso Português de Cardiologia 2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (Vilamoura, Portugal)
2022/04/23 Severe aortic valve and ostial coronary disease - when it rains, it pours! Congresso Português de Cardiologia 2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (Vilamoura, Portugal)
2022/04/22 Predictors of functional recovery after mitral transcatheter-edge-to-edge repair Congresso Português de Cardiologia 2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (Vilamoura, Portugal)
2022/04/01 How to rock residency and sanity at the same time - part I - Aplicações essenciais para o smartphone do interno young Cardiologists Training Sessions – yCTS 2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/03/26 Hipocoagulação - do geral para os casos particulares Arritmias Supraventriculares
2022/03/18 Non-reperfused inferior STEMI complicated with advanced heart block - - What to expect? Acute Cardiovascular Care 2022
European Society of Cardiology
2021/12/03 IC: Diagnóstico, classificação e prognóstico Curso 1.0 Cardiologia
Adhara Academy
2021/11/23 Severe aortic valve and ostial coronary disease; when it rains, it pours! PCR London Valves 2021
PCR (London, United Kingdom)
2021/11/06 Prognóstico: como avaliar? Insuficiência Cardíaca
Adhara Academy
2021/09/17 Not the most common leak after TAVI… 2VRT
2VRT (Lisboa)
2021/09/16 Gestão do doente com fibrilhação auricular GEMMeeting
GEMMeeting (Porto, Portugal)
2021/09/10 Tenho arritmia, posso fazer exercício? Curso abordagem à patologia músculo-esquelética
Neuro & MSK Interventional Group (Porto, Portugal)
2021/07/10 Clinical valve thrombosis post-TAVI with hypoattenuating leaflet thickening in CT: anticoagulation is the answer 11th Challenges in Cardiology
(Portugal)
2021/07/10 When a blocked heart becomes a broken heart... 11th Challenges in Cardiology
(Portugal)
2021/05/04 Sessão Plenária - Cardiologia Open Resident Day
Centro Hospitalar de Entre Douro e Vouga (Porto, Portugal)
2021/04/30 Metformin improves diastolic dysfunction of non-diabetic patients with metabolic syndrome: the MET-DIME randomized trial Congresso Português de Cardiologia 2021
Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia
2021/04/17 Cardiologia Med.Win 7.0 - A Window Into Medical Careers
Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/03/30 O que esconde o pericárdio? 3ª edição do Ciclo de Conferências "Preto no Branco"
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/02/04 Collaborative Question Bank - how to involve students in their assessment? Workshop Anual de Inovação e Partilha Pedagógica
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/01/08 Fibrilhação auricular Curso 1.0 Medicina Geral e Familiar
Adhara Academy (Portugal)
2020/12/04 Diabetes no Doente Cardiovascular Curso 1.0 Cardiologia
Adhara Academy
2020/09/10 ECG no desportista: O que valorizar? Abordagem à Patologia Músculo-Esquelética
Neuro & MSK Interventional Group (Porto, Portugal)
2019/08/29 An Unusual Case Of "Masked" Hypertension And The Importance Of A Correct Blood Pressure Evaluation 18th European Congress of Internal Medicine
European Federation of Internal Medicine (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/08/29 Painful Left Cervical Swelling In A Healthy 44-Year Old Man – A Case Of A Complete Left Internal Jugular Vein Thrombosis 18th European Congress of Internal Medicine
European Federation of Internal Medicine (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/08/29 SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE ACCIDENT DURING AN ENDODONTIC PROCEDURE - CASE REPORT 18th European Congress of Internal Medicine
European Federation of Internal Medicine (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/02/07 A Relevância dos Princípios do Learning Analytics no Ensino da Fisiologia em Articulação com a Prática Médica no Século XXI - O Desafio da Integração de Flashcards na Educação Médica Workshop Anual de Inovação e Partilha Pedagógica
Universidade do Porto - Inovação Pedagógica (Porto, Portugal)
2016/09/17 Does Ghrelin Induce Relaxation of Bovine Ciliary Muscle? Eleventh YES – Young European Scientist – Meeting
YES Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2016/09/17 Can Ghrelin Have a Therapeutical Role in Diabetic Retinopathy? Eleventh YES – Young European Scientist – Meeting
YES Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2016/02/27 Efeitos da Grelina no Relaxamento do Músculo Ciliar Colóquios de Oftalmologia
(Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/03/26 - 2022/04/02 Arritmias Supraventriculares (2022/03/26 - 2022/04/02)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2021/12/03 - 2021/12/04 Curso 1.0 - Cardiologia - Adhara Academy (2021/12/03 - 2021/12/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2021/11/06 - 2021/11/20 Insuficiência Cardíaca (2021/11/06 - 2021/11/20)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2020/12/04 - 2020/12/05 Curso 1.0 - Cardiologia - Adhara Academy (2020/12/04 - 2020/12/05)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2020/09/19 - 2020/09/26 Particularidades na Hipocoagulação - Adhara Academy (2020/09/19 - 2020/09/26)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/11/26 - 2021/11/27 ACVC School 2021
Meeting
 Acute CardioVascular Care School 2021
Société Européenne de Cardiologie, France

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/09/17 - 2020/09/20 Fifteenth YES - Young European Scientist - Meeting CIM - Centro de Investigação Médica, FMUP - Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/09/12 - 2019/09/15 Fourteenth YES - Young European Scientist - Meeting CIM - Centro de Investigação Médica, FMUP - Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/09/01 - Current Empathy in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy Pedro Vilela Teixeira
2021/09/01 - Current Interpersonal Reactivity Index Profile and Evolution in Medical Students: a cross-sectional study Ana Catarina Moreira
2021/09/01 - Current Flow-status in severe aortic stenosis for percutaneous valve implantation: Should we follow the flow? Paula Isabel Fernandes
Distinctions

Award

2022 Best Clinical Case - EACVI Best of Imaging 2022 - Unexpected finding after percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion
European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, France
2021 Pedagogical Innovation Projects
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021 Pedagogical Innovation Projects
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021 Best Cases Session - PCR London Valves 2021 - Severe aortic valve and ostial coronary disease; when it rains, it pours!
2020 Active Citizenship - Pedagogy
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019 Pedagogical Innovation Projects
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2015 Merit Scholarship
Universidade do Porto, Portugal