September 13th – Day 1
10:00 – 13:00 – Workshop on Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber Safety
Sponsored by Perry Baromedical and EU Representatives
Program 14:30 – 16:30 – Workshop 1 – Clinical Research in HBOT
Speaker:
Firmino Machado, MD, MSc statistics, PhD:
Public health medical doctor and statistician, currently working as an associate professor at the University of Aveiro. He lectures statistics and epidemiology to undergraduate, master, and PhD students. Firmino Machado is also a researcher at the Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, focused especially on the prevention and control of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Currently, he is the Vice-President of the Clinical Academic Center Egas Moniz Health Alliance and works as a consultant of the Board of Directors of Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho (CHVNG/E). Additionally, he is currently the coordinator of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit of the CHVNG/E.
Program:
Research questions and objectives:
To master the conversion of ideas into research questions and objectives.
Study design::
To excel in the definition of the most adequate study designs (randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional) to meet the needs of the research questions.
Essential statistical tests:
To know and understand the application of the most common statistical tests to clinical applications – correlation, qui-squared, independent sample T-test, and paired sample T-test
14:30 – 16:30 – Workshop 2 – Scientific Writing
Speaker:
Pedro Barata Coelho, MD, MSc PharmD, PhD
Medical Doctor working in Clinical Pathology and at Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António – Porto, Portugal and at the Hyperbaric Unit of the ULS Matosinhos, focusing on clinical research.
He completed his Medical Degree at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto. He also holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, where he completed his MSc and PharmD. Additionally, he completed the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program at Harvard Medical School and obtained an MBA from the Portuguese Catholic University. He also has a PostGraduation Course in healthcare management.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal, and a senior lecturer at various institutions including Kings College London, Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Universidade do Porto.
He is a member of the Medicines Evaluation Commission of Infarmed, the Portuguese regulatory authority, as well as a quality expert for the European Medicines Agency. He conducts his research at I3S-UP, a prominent Portuguese research centre, focusing on the clinical effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapies, Mitochondria, and Gut Microbiome.
He has published numerous papers, received scientific awards including winning the Zetterstrom Award twice with the ULS Matosinhos team and supervised several PhD students and Master theses. Currently, he is involved in establishing the Portuguese Hyperbaric Medicine Society and developing a university course in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine for medical doctors. He is also part of the organizing and scientific committee for EUBS 2023.
Program: TBA