Isabel Fonseca
MD, PhD
Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António (CHUdSA)
Hospital Santo António (HSA)
Research group
Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation
Isabel Fonseca is graduated in Nutrition and Food Sciences by Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences (FCNAUP) from University of Porto (UP) in December of 1994. In 2000 she completed a Master Degree Program in Public Health with a specialization in Biostatistics, at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto/ Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of University of Porto (ICBAS/UP). In 2015 she got her PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences at ICBAS/UP with a thesis on “Predictive factors of graft dysfunction and long-term kidney allograft failure”.
Renal Nutritionist at Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Department of Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António (CHUdSA) and Clinical Nutritionist at Corino de Andrade’s Center, since 1995.
Team Leader of the Scientific Evaluation Area of the Education, Training and Research Department of CHUPorto, since 2006.
Biostatistician at Corino de Andrade’s Center, since 2015
Invited Assistant Professor of Pathology and Nutrition at Catholic University of Portugal (Porto) College of Biotechnology, since 2018.
Isabel Fonseca is a research member of Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), being an integrated PhD research at Multidisciplinary Unit in Biomedical Research (UMIB) and a research collaborator of Epidemiological Research Unit (EPIUnit) from Public Health Institute of the University of Porto (ISPUP).
Her main research areas are related with kidney disease and kidney transplantation, focusing on graft dysfunction biomarkers and predictors of patient and graft outcomes, survival analysis and prognostic models. She has also a particular interest in nutritional evaluation methodologies, transthyretin-associated familial amyloid polyneuropathy and clinical epidemiology, with a focus on clinical research methods.
She has published more than 50 scientific papers in international journals, nine of which as a first author, and one book chapter.