Ana Luisa Neves

Center for Health Technology and Services Research, University of Porto, Portugal

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Academic Background

PhD or equivalent

Qualification

General Practitioner/Family Doctor

Short Bio

Ana qualified in Medicine in Portugal (University of Porto), where she completed her specialist training in General Practice in 2013. She has worked as a General Practitioner in Portugal and has experience working as volunteer doctor in low-income countries in patient education programs, mostly on women's health and infectious diseases (Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Mozambique). During her residency training, Ana undertook academic and research placements at Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale (Paris) and at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School Affiliate (Boston). Ana moved to London in 2014 to enrol a PhD Program in Clinical Medicine at Imperial College London, at the Division of Computational and Systems Medicine. In 2018, Ana has joined the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial, where she is currently Associate Director / Advanced Research Fellow at Imperial NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research (PSTRC). Her research focuses on the use of health data and digital technologies to deliver safer, more effective, and patient-centred care. Ana also oversees the strategic development and delivery against research objectives of Imperial NIHR PSTRC, working closely with the Centre’s NHS partners and the academic support to the WHO Global Patient Safety Collaborative, a multi-national consortium designed to strengthen patient safety leadership, capacity building and research development in low and middle-income countries. In what concerns teaching activities, she is the Deputy Director of MSc Patient Safety and Module Lead (Digital Health) at the Masters Public Health, at Imperial College London. Ana is also Module Lead (Health Data Collection and Principles of Health Data Science) at the PhD Programme in Health Data Science at University of Porto, where she holds a post as Associate Professor. She is currently an elected member of the Executive Board of the European General Practice Research Network, and of the Executive Board of the Working Party on eHealth of WONCA World. In 2018, she was awarded a Scholarship from the European Association of General Practice (WONCA Europe).