CES Members

Ana Margarida Mineiro Rodrigues Zaky

Ana Margarida Mineiro Rodrigues Zaky

Ana Mineiro has a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Lisbon and a post-doctoral fellowship in Neurolinguistics and Sign Language Linguistics from the Institute of Health Sciences of the  Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Associate Professor with Aggregation at UCP and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, she has been teaching for over 30 years in university teaching. For over a decade that her interest in teaching is deafness and sign languages.  

Her CV includes a hundred publications, she was part of the Board of ILTEC with the linguist and Full Professor at the University of Lisbon, Maria Helena Mira Mateus, was and is a principal researcher (IR) in several scientific and development projects funded in competitive applications such as the Foundation for Science and Technology, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the PT Foundation, Horizonte 2020, among others and was a PhD and post-doctoral fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology. She has guided and continues to guide dozens of master's, doctoral and post-doctoral courses, and is part of national and international commissions for the evaluation of courses, exams, research scholarships, provisioning contests, and projects. She is a frequent speaker and visiting professor and researcher at foreign universities, namely at the University of Vigo, University of Brasilia, and University College of London.

António Manuel Núncio Faria Vaz

Senior medical assistant of the General and Family Medicine career. Vice-President of the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research (CEIC) from 2005 to 2011.

Master in Pharmacoepidemiology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2001; Master in Clinical Trials from the University of Seville in 2005; Master in Bioethics from UDIMA / Fundación de Ciencias de la Salud (Director Prof Diego Gracia) in 2019.

Expert in Bioethics and Clinical Bioethics; Chairman of the Ethics Commission for Health of ARSLVT (since 2011); founding member of RedÉtica (National Association of Ethics Commission members) and Chairman of the Board of RedÉtica.
 

Eugénio José da Cruz Fonseca

Graduated in Religious Sciences from the Faculty of Theology, UCP.

Some of the activities and positions carried out in the social and ecclesial sphere (at the national level):

• In 1999 he was appointed by CEP as President of Cáritas Portuguesa, a position he currently holds.
• In 1996, he was elected Deputy President of UIPSS, now called CNIS, a position he held until February 2012. During the same period, he joined the National Commission of Guaranteed Minimum Income, now called the National Commission of Social Insertion Income.
• In 2003, he took office as a member of the Economic and Social Council, a position he held until 2017.
• In 2006, he was chosen by the National Volunteer Associations to assume the presidency of the Installation Commission of the Portuguese Confederation of Volunteering. In 2009, he was elected to the Board of this Confederation.
• From 2013 to 2015, by Order of the Minister of Education, he chaired the Jury of the Volunteer School Seal.

(at local and regional level):

• In 1986 he was named Director of the Diocesan Secretariat for Church Teaching in Schools, a position he held until September 1, 2002.
• In 1987 he was named President of the Cáritas Diocesana de Setúbal, a position he held until October 10, 2016.
• In 1994, he was sworn in as a member of the District Commission for the Fight Against AIDS, a position he held until 1999.
• He was a member of the Observatory that evaluated the results of the Integrated Development Operation of the Setúbal Peninsula (OID).
• Since 2014, he has been a member of the Social Council of the Faculty of Economics and Business of Lusíada University.
• In 2009 he joined the General Council of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, having chaired this Council from 2016 until April 28, 2017, remaining an advisor.
• Since May 5, 2015, by Order of the Minister of Health, he chairs the Advisory Board of the Setúbal Hospital Center.
   

Jerónimo dos Santos Trigo

Priest member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Heart of Mary — Claretian Missionaries.

Doctorate in Moral Theology — Theological Ethics. Alfonsian Academy. Pontifical Lateran University. Rome, 1992.

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Teaching Fundamental Moral Theology and Personal Moral Theology.

Lecturer at the School of Nursing of S. Francisco das Misericórdias, Fundamental Ethics and Bioethics until 2018.

Teaching and research areas:

•  Theological ethics in the context of ethics and theology.
• Personal autonomy in the context of moral theology and themes directly involved: freedom, law and laws, moral law, conscience, obedience.
• Elaboration of moral judgments: pertinence and implications.
• Paradigms of sexual ethics and implication in concrete themes of marriage and sexuality.
• Ethical-legal issues of the beginning and end of human life.
• Ethical-legal issues of the death penalty.
   

Mara de Sousa Freitas

PhD in Bioethics, thesis on vulnerability, autonomy and the Bioethics decision in oncology, IB-UCP; Specialization in Anthropology and Health, IB-UCP; Post-Graduation in Bioethics, IB-UCP; Post-Graduation in Medicine and Bioethics Law, Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) and FDUL; Degree in Nursing, ESEnf.FG.

She currently serves as Advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. She is a Guest Assistant Professor of Ethics and Deontology at ESEL (30%); External Guest Assistant Professor of the PhD in Bioethics at UCP and the PhD in Pharmacy at UL Faculty of Pharmacy (Ethics and Research); External Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and at the Nova Medical School, Master's Degree in NOVA Biomedical Research and PhD in Health Sciences, in the area of ethics and research.

Researcher at Nova Saúde: Value Improvement in Health and Care, in the area of ethics and value in health; Scientific and Executive Coordinator of the Postgraduate Courses in Bioethics at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon; Coordinator of the Organizational Ethics module of the Postgraduate Course in Health Management at Egas Moniz — Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, CRL.

Expert in the area of Ethics evaluation of research projects of the European Commission — H2020; Deputy and rapporteur of the Ethics Committee of the Health Parliament Portugal (2016-2019); President of the Ethics Committee for Health (CES) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and LInQUE Cuidados Paliativos em casa; member of the CES of Instituto Nacional Doutor Ricardo Jorge (August 2020); member of the CES of ESSCVP (2012 to July/2020);

Main research areas: Vulnerability; Ethical Decision in Health Care; Ethics and Bioethics in Health Care; End of Life Ethical Issues; Ethics and Value in Health; Ethics and Public Policies in Health; Organizational Ethics; Ethics and Quality.
 

Maria Emília Pinto dos Santos (Ceased functions at CES-UCP, as vice president, in December 2019)

PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Porto. Clinical psychologist, speech therapist and family therapist.

Former coordinating professor at the Alcoitão Health School; Director of the undergraduate and master's courses in Speech Therapy for several years.

Guest associate professor at ICS-UCP since 2010, where she coordinates the PhD program in Cognition and Language Sciences.

Member of the Ethics Committee of the Portuguese Society of Speech Therapy.

Main areas of research: Language evaluation in children and adults; Pathology of language; Psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration.

Maria Ivone Gonçalves Gaspar

Graduated assistant doctor in General and Family Medicine, family doctor at ARSLVT, since 2007.

Master in Bioethics from UDIMA | Fundación de Ciencias de la Salud, Madrid (Director Prof Diego Gracia), in 2018. Member of the ARSLVT Health Ethics Commission. Secretary of the Board of the RedÉtica Association.

Trainer of the optional curricular course of Ethics applied to clinical practice, in the Coordination of the General and Family Medicine Internship of ARSLVT, since 2014. Coordinator and trainer of the Ethics and Public Health Course, in the Coordination of the Public Health Residency of ARSLVT and ARSA, since 2018.

Advisor for specific training in General Practice/Family Medicine, at ARSLVT. Professor at the General Practice/Family Medicine Curriculum Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Post-graduate course in Introduction to Research Methodologies (2017) and post-graduate course in Evaluation of Medical Literature (2018), NOVA Medical School.

 

Maria Teresa Possante Marques

Physician, PhD in Medicine from the Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa (FML).

She has attended the Bioethics Free Course (FCSH of the UNL) and the Post Graduation Course in Law and Medicine (CEB, Coimbra).

In her hospital career, she was Head of the Clinical Pathology Service of the Santa Cruz Hospital (HSC), Clinical Director of the HSC and later Director of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of the CHLO and responsible for the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Western Lisbon Hospital Center (CHLO), until her retirement.

She was Guest Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Parasitology at UL FML, Guest Associate Professor of Microbiology at NOVA Medical School (UNL), and Regent of Microbiology until retirement, having coordinated the 3rd year Pedagogical Commission and was Vice-President of the Pedagogical Council.

She was also President of the CES of HSC, President of the CES of CHLO, Coordinator of the Transplant Admissibility Checking Entity (EVA) of CHLO, Portuguese representative for the area of Microbiology at the European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI), Member of the European Council Elected Country Representatives of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and appointed "Disease expert — Laboratory Legi" at the European Legionnaires' Disease Surveillance Net (ELDSNet) of ECDC.

She is the Coordinator of the Post-Graduation Course in Laboratory Medicine of the ICS of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th edition (ongoing).
 

Marta Isabel Boto Courinha Brites

Professor of Philosophy and Certified Trainer in the area of Human Rights, Volunteering and Citizenship;

PhD in Bioethics with the thesis: "Palliative pediatric care: elements for a philosophy of care";

Master in Bioethics from the Faculty of Philosophy of Braga, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, with the thesis: "Proximity as a link of subjectivity. Looking at Palliative Care in the light of Emmanuel Levinas' thought";

Degree in Philosophy from the University of Évora.

Pedro Garcia Marques

Assistant Professor at the School of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where he obtained a Master's degree in Legal-Criminal Sciences, and later a Doctorate in Law with a dissertation entitled "O Juízo Crítico da Culpa". He teaches and investigates in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Human Rights. He was a member of the Board of Directors and of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law of UCP, and currently collaborates with the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law.