Podiatrist / Assistant teacher / Researcher
Coordinator of Podiatry course @ Portuguese Red Cross School of Health – Lisbon
Researcher at RISE-Health @ CINTESIS, Faculty of Medicine Oporto University, Porto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Matilde Monteiro-Soares
Matilde Monteiro-Soares is a podiatrist from the North of Portugal. She has dedicated her professional and academic experience mainly to diabetic foot prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. She has gathered clinical experience in a high-risk setting, a Diabetic Foot Clinic with a multidisciplinary team, and started investigating, developing, and improving the classification of subjects with diabetes by their risk of foot complications.
Her MSc and PhD degrees focused on Clinical and Health Services Research and diabetic foot complications’ prediction and prevention. Since 2011, she has collaborated with the MEDCIDS department at Oporto University, lecturing in pre- and post-graduate courses mainly about evidence-based healthcare, diagnostic and prognostic studies, evidence synthesis, and health technology assessment. She was an Invited Assistant teacher there from 2019 to 2025.
She is a Research integrated member at Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS) included in RISE-Health Research Center, Oporto Faculty of Medicine. She belongs to the EvidenS&HTA Research Group, Thematic Line 3 – Health Data and Decision Sciences & Information Technologies.
Since 2019, she has been teaching as an external collaborator in the Podiatry licentiate degree at Portuguese Red Cross Health School in Lisbon and, since 2021, she has been the coordinator of that course.
She is also a Member of the Portuguese Diabetic Foot Study Group (GEPED), Portuguese Research and Development of Podiatry Society (SPIDP), Portuguese Wound Treatment Association (APTF) – Diabetic Foot Group, and was a member of the ‘Prevention of the First Ulcer’ Group from the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG).
More information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4586-2910
