The Thematic Line 4 – Hospital Care & Clinical Outcomes aims to advance hospital care and clinical outcomes through innovative research, education, and cooperation.
Combining expertise in different fields, TL4 aims to address complex healthcare challenges more effectively, including sepsis, critical care, emergency and perioperative Medicine, surgical care, anaesthesia, cancer, palliative care, digestive health, maternal and child health, lung diseases, and personalised Medicine.
The main objective is to improve patient outcomes by developing and implementing innovative prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management approaches. By translating research into practical knowledge, the TL4 aims to positively impact healthcare delivery and outcomes locally, nationally, and globally.
Coordinates RISE-Health’s Thematic Line 4 – Hospital Care & Clinical Outcomes. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) and specialised in Anesthesiology, completing her Doctoral studies in Intensive Care at the University of Porto in 2005. She has been working in Intensive Care since 1992.
Currently, Cristina Granja is an Guest Associate Professor (Surgery and Physiology) at FMUP, Director of SIMFMUP – Pluridisciplinar Centre of Simulation at FMUP, and Consultant in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, responsible for the post-operative area of the Department of Anesthesiology of the Hospital of São João.
As the Principal Investigator of the research group CriticalMed – Critical Care & Emergency Medicine of CINTESIS, she coordinated the CINTESIS hub at the University of Algarve (UAlg), where she had been an Invited Full Professor and responsible for the education area of Medicine for Critically Ill Patients amongst 2013 and 2019. She was also Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Room of the Hospital de Faro, Algarve.
With more than 40 articles published in national and international journals, Cristina Granja is also the Coordinator of the Study Group on Analgesia, Sedation, and Delirium of the Portuguese Society of Intensive Care and the Portuguese Society of Anesthesiology, a reviewer for several journals in the field of critical care, emergency and anesthesiology and Founder and President at Salva-Vidas, an association for training on Cardiorespiratory Resuscitation (CPR).
RISE-Health
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro
4200-319 Porto