Dr. Pedro Silva Santos

Breve CV

Integrated Master's degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (2004 - 2010).
Specialty Training in Pneumology at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (2012 - 2016).
Non-Invasive Ventilation Internship at Hospital General Universitario Morales Meseguer, in Murcia, Spain (2016).
Pneumology Hospital Assistant, Pneumology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (since 2018).
Member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia (Portuguese Society of Pulmonology), Fundação Portuguesa do Pulmão (Portuguese Lung Foundation) and the European Respiratory Society.
Member of the Young Pulmonologists Division at Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia (since 2016).
First author of 20 papers at scientific meetings, 6 of which at international meetings, and co-author of 18 papers, 6 of which also presented at international meetings.
Author or co-author of 11 articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals, all with impact factor.
Author of chapter #16 entitled Physiology Interactions of High Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy in Applied Physiology in Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation.
Author of chapter #6, entitled Nasal High Flow Oxygen. Technology and devices in the book Respiratory Care in Non Invasive Mechanical Ventilatory Support: Principles and Practice.
Co-author of two chapters, #1 entitled Spontaneous Breathing. Physiology and #11 with the title Dyspnea During Noninvasive Ventilation Implications for Respiratory Function, from the book Pulmonary Function Measurement in Noninvasive Ventilatory Support.
Participated in screening activities for respiratory diseases in the community (2016).

Languages

Portuguese, Spanish and English