Faculty

Bernardo graduated in medicine from the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar at the University of Porto. He began his anaesthesiology training at Porto Hospital Centre in 2006. During his post-graduate medical training he did a research fellowship at Münster University Hospitals in 2007, followed by a PhD at University College London (2009–2014), where he investigated the role of mitochondria in septic cardiomyopathy with a fellowship from the prestigious GABBA PhD program.

In 2014, Bernardo joined the Department of anaesthesiology at Geneva University Hospitals  (HUG), where he resumed his anaesthesiology training while contributing to the FP7-funded project "Shockomics," which explored cardiovascular dysfunction in shock. He led Work Package 6, focusing on animal studies.

In 2017, he earned his specialist title in anaesthesiology.Since 2021, he has led the Pre-operativeassessment clinic at HUG’s Department of anaesthesiology, and in 2024, he took over the leadership of the Peri-interventional care unit, where he cares for high-risk surgical patients before and after surgery. He is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as the continuous professional development of medical doctors and nurses in the field of perioperative medicine. Bernardo is an engaged member of several national and international societies for anaesthesia and intensive care, and since 2023, he has served as President of the Perioperative medicine committee of the Swiss society of anaesthesiology and perioperative medicine (SSAPM).

In 2022, he was appointed privat-docent at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva (UNIGE). His research at HUG/UNIGE focuses on myocardial injury and heart failure following surgery, utilizing both translational models and clinical studies. He has been a national principal investigator for Switzerland in several large multicentre clinical studies. His ultimate goal is to identify modifiable mechanisms and interventions to prevent perioperative complications and improve patient outcomes after surgery.

I am a highly motivated anaesthesiologist since 1998. My daily clinical practice includes cardiac anaesthesia, anaesthesia outside the operating room, and preoperative optimization through multimodal prehabilitation, as well as medical undergraduate education and patient safety issues. I am currently the research group leader in the Department of Anaesthesiology. I have supervised 8 PhD theses in various medicine fields.

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Assistente Hospitalar na Unidade Local de Saúde Gaia e Espinho. É membro do Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Health Research Network (CINTESIS@RISE) , da European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) Guidelines Methodology Network e da ESAIC Task Force on Perioperative Fasting in Adults Guidelines. É doutoranda em Investigação Clínica e em Serviços de Saúde na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto. Realizou estágio opcional em investigação clínica no Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School e mantém colaboração ativa com a instituição. As suas áreas de interesse em investigação incluem as práticas de jejum perioperatório e a aspiração pulmonar.

Prof. Dr. Sérgio Vide is a Portuguese anesthesiologist and clinical researcher focusing on nociception monitoring and electroencephalography.
He currently serves at the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João in Porto and at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.
He is also a researcher at the RISE-Health Unit in Porto and at the Systems Pharmacology Effect Control & Modeling Research Group (SPEC-M) at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. In addition, he serves on the board of the Portuguese Society of Anesthesiology.

Vítor Pinho Oliveira, MD, DESA, is a Consultant in Anesthesiology at ULS Viseu Dão-Lafões (ULSVDL, public hospital), at Viseu (Portugal) since 2010 and Head of Anesthesiology Department at Hospital CUF Viseu (private hospital) since 2016.

Post-graduation in Palliative Medicine from the Portuguese Catholic University in 2008. Program in Healthcare Management from NOVA School of Business and Economics in 2018.

Was granted the European Diploma of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (EDAIC) in 2010 and has been an active EDAIC part II Examiner since 2016 and faculty of ESAIC’s Basic and Clinical Sciences Anesthetic Course since 2019. Completed the ESA Teach the TeachersCourse in 2016. Local Coordinator and/or Investigator of several ESA Clinical Trial Network studies (EuSOS, POPULAR, EPIMAP) and ISOS study.

Served as Chief Medical Officer at ULSVDL Clinical Informatization Committee and Local Health Data Platform Ambassador from 2012-2015 and was a member of the Working Group for Critical Ill Patient Digital Records of the Portuguese Ministry of Health.

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Society of Anesthesiology (SPA) from 2014 to 2021. Co-founder and member of the Organizing Committee of different meetings and scientific events within the SPA and within the scope of other postgraduate training (Projet InANESTESIA - Introduction to Clinical Anesthesiology, School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal).