Personal identification

Full name

João Almeida

Citation names

• Almeida, João
• João Coutinho-Almeida

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

CC17-2641-A368

ORCID iD

0000-0003-0882-6547

Researcher Id

AFA-5975-2022

Scopus Author Id

57315328400

	Degree	Classification
2020 - 2024 Concluded	Ciência de Dados de Saúde (Doutoramento) Major in Aprendizagem Automática Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019 Concluded	Informática Médica (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "Evaluation of a pharmacovigilance causality assessment tool" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/01 - 2013/09/01 Concluded	Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal	14
2013 Concluded	Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal "Relatórios de Estágio realizado na Farmácia Maia e no Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia e Espinho" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/03/01 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019 - 2025/02/28	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - Current	Industria	JFCALM, Portugal
2018 - 2021	Industria	HealthySystems, Portugal
2014 - 2018	Industria	ALERT Life Sciences Computing SA, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022 - 2025	PRR HfPT -Health From Portugal 80200 Researcher	Ongoing

Publications

Book chapter	Mariana Canelas-Pais; João Coutinho Almeida; Sabrina Magalhães Araujo; Filipa Maia Rafael; Ricardo Cruz-Correia; Pedro Pereira Rodrigues. "Artificial intelligence in healthcare". 2025. 10.1016/B978-0-323-91819-0.00009-9 João Coutinho-Almeida; Pedro Pereira Rodrigues; Ricardo João Cruz-Correia. "GANs for Tabular Healthcare Data Generation: A Review on Utility and Privacy". 282-291. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-88942-5_22
Conference paper	Hübner, UH; Vieira Marques, P; Hüsers, J; Haukkakallio, T; Ikonen, J; Egbert, N; Almeida, J; et al. "Lessons Learned from an Interprofessional European Summer School in Health Informatics". 2024. 10.3233/shti231149 João Coutinho-Almeida; Ricardo João Cruz-Correia; Pedro Pereira Rodrigues. "Dataset Comparison Tool: Utility and Privacy". 2022. 10.3233/shti220389 Almeida, JC; Cruz Correia, RJ. "Developing a Process Mining Tool Based on HL7". 2021. 10.1016/j.procs.2021.12.042
Journal article	Lourenço-Silva, N; Sousa-Pinto, B; Bognanni, A; Martini, M; Ordak, M; Paoletti, G; Gil-Mata, S; et al. "Assessment of the Effectiveness of Allergic Rhinitis Medications Using a Target Trial Emulation Approach Based on Mobile Health Data". Clinical & Experimental Allergy (2025): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-01A-D4F. 10.1111/cea.70173 Almeida, J; Chronaki, E; Moen, A. "Preliminary Results from Using Gen-AI to Personalized Medication Leaflets". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (2025): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-019-TYD. 10.3233/shti251012 João Coutinho-Almeida; Carlos Saez; Ricardo Correia; Pedro Pereira Rodrigues. "Development and initial validation of a data quality evaluation tool in obstetrics real-world data through HL7-FHIR interoperable Bayesian networks and expert rules". JAMIA Open (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae062. 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae062 João Coutinho-Almeida; Alexandrina Cardoso; Ricardo Cruz-Correia; Pedro Pereira-Rodrigues. "Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources–Based Support System for Predicting Delivery Type: Model Development and Evaluation Study". JMIR Formative Research (2024): https://doi.org/10.2196/54109. 10.2196/54109 João Coutinho-Almeida; Ana Sofia Silva; Patrícia Redondo; Pedro Pereira Rodrigues; Ana Ferreira. "CDK4/6 inhibitors and endocrine therapy in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer: A real-world and propensity score-adjusted comparison". Cancer Treatment and Research Communications (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctarc.2024.100818. 10.1016/j.ctarc.2024.100818 Coutinho Almeida, J; Cruz Correia, RJ; Rodrigues, PP. "Evaluating distributed-learning on real-world obstetrics data: comparing distributed, centralized and local models". SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2024): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-010-E3Z. 10.1038/s41598-024-61371-1 Paulo Dias Costa; João Almeida; Sabrina Magalhães Araujo; Patrícia Alves; Ricardo Cruz-Correia; Kaija Saranto; John Mantas. "Biomedical and health informatics teaching in Portugal: Current status". Heliyon (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14163. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14163 Holmgren A.J.; Esdar M.; Hüsers J.; Coutinho-Almeida J.. "Health Information Exchange: Understanding the Policy Landscape and Future of Data Interoperability". Yearbook of Medical Informatics (2023): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00Z-S05. 10.1055/s-0043-1768719
Preprint	Sousa-Pinto, B; Vieira, RJ; Bognanni, A; Martini, M; Ordak, M; Paoletti, G; Gil-Mata, S; et al. "Comparison of Allergic Rhinitis Treatments on Patient Satisfaction: A MASK-air and EAACI Methodological Committee Report". 2025. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-01A-41S. 10.1111/all.70055
Thesis / Dissertation	João Filipe Coutinho de Almeida. "Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare: Exploring the role of real-world data to leverage clinical practice.". PhD, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/162128.