Teacher
Joana Simões

Resume

Joana Simões started her career as a horse veterinarian in 2011, at the Equine Unit of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (FMV-ULisboa), where she worked for 6 years, focusing on equine internal medicine, anesthesia and intensive care. In 2020 she completed her PhD in veterinary sciences, in clinical research by the University of Lisbon. This research focused on better characterizing severe equine asthma and on the development of a staging method based on clinical information and lung function, which could be used in the field. Joana is currently working as an assistant professor of equine clinic at the Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, acting as coordinator of the equine clinical academic division. She is a member of the clinical research laboratory of CECAV-ULusofona, focusing her research on equine respiratory and cardiovascular medicine.

Graus

• Mestrado
  Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Veterinária
• Outros
  XII Course on Laboratory Animal Science/ XII Curso de Experimentação Animal
• Doutoramento
  Doutoramento em Ciências Veterinárias
• Pós-Graduação
  Pós-graduação em pedagogia do ensino superior
• Pós-Graduação
  Pós-graduação em acupuntura veterinária

Publicações

Journal article

• 2025-08, Biological markers and metabolic energy indexes of show jumping horses during a field exercise test in Portugal, Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
• 2025-06-11, A 6-Week Training Protocol Reduces Energy Consumption in Young Lusitano Horses Used in Dressage, Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition
• 2023-12-16, Decision Making in Severe Equine Asthma—Diagnosis and Monitoring, Animals
• 2023-12-13, Analysis of Stress Predictors in Vaquejada Horses Running with Different Interval Rest Periods, Stresses
• 2023-09-15, Severely Asthmatic Horses Residing in a Mediterranean Climate Shed a Significantly Lower Number of Parasite Eggs Compared to Healthy Farm Mates, Animals
• 2023-05-22, Effects of a 15° Variation in Poll Flexion during Riding on the Respiratory Systems and Behaviour of High-Level Dressage and Show-Jumping Horses, Animals
• 2022-12-06, Training Effects on the Stress Predictors for Young Lusitano Horses Used in Dressage
• 2022-03-16, The Immune Mechanisms of Severe Equine Asthma - Current Understanding and What is Missing, Animals
• 2022, Heart and airways: the motors of the equine athlete, Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
• 2022, Desafios na medicina desportiva equina em Portugal, Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
• 2020-04, Owner Compliance to an Environmental Management Protocol for Severe Equine Asthma Syndrome, Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
• 2019-04, Contribution of lung function tests to the staging of severe equine asthma syndrome in the field, Research in Veterinary Science
• 2012-05, First Report of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST5 and ST398 from Purebred Lusitano Horses, Journal of Equine Veterinary Science

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2020-02-14, PhD, Contribution to the discriminant power of some of the variables involved in the staging of severe equine asthma syndrome
• 2011-04-26, Master, Utilização de gastroscopia no despiste da EGUS / SUGE (Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome / Síndrome de Úlcera Gástrica Equina)

Book chapter

• 2020, No Room to Breathe: Airway Conditions Affecting the Equine Athlete, Advances in Animal Health, Medicine and Production, Springer International Publishing

Conference paper

• Use of a horse walker training protocol for jumping horses, 5th ECVSMR Scientific Meeting
• THYROID HORMONES RESPONSE TO DRESSAGE SIMULATION TEST IN YOUNG LUSITANO HORSES, 17th World Equine Veterinary Association Congress
• Quantitative gait analysis with Alogo Move System in jumping horses trained for 10 weeks using the water treadmill, 5th ECVSMR Scientific Meeting
• Energy expenditure of jumping horses trained for 10 weeks using the water treadmill, 5th ECVSMR Scientific Meeting
• Echocardiography of jumping horses trained for 10 weeks using the water treadmill, 5th ECVSMR Scientific Meeting
• EFFECTS OF A 7-WEEK TRAINING PROTOCOL USING A WATER TREADMILL ON BIOMARKERS OF JUMPING HORSES, 17th World Equine Veterinary Association Congress
• COMPARISON OF ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF HORSES USED IN SHOW JUMPING AND BULLFIGHTING SIMULATION TESTS, 17th World Equine Veterinary Association Congress
• ACUTE RESPONSES OF IRON INDICES IN YOUNG LUSITANO HORSES DURING A DRESSAGE SIMULATION TEST, 17th World Equine Veterinary Association Congress
• 2024-10, Bronchodilator response in asthmatic patients without airway obstruction - to do or not to do?, European Respiratory Society Congress

Conference abstract

• 2023-12-16, Efeito de dois níveis alimentares na ocorrência de lesões de osteocondrose em poldros de raça Lusitana, VII Jornadas do Grupo de Trabalho de Investigação em Equídeos (GTIE)
• 2018-11-16, Effects of a 15º variation in poll flexion during riding on the respiratory system and on behaviour in pure blood Lusitano high dressage horses, CIISA's Congress 2018
• 2018-11-16, Contribution to the staging of severe equine asthma syndrome (EAS) in the field using lung function testing , CIISA's Congress 2018
• 2013-07, Preliminary results of the use of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for the diagnosis of lower airway disorders in donkeys, 5th World Equine Airways Symposium (WEAS)

Conference poster

• 2026-01, Troponin levels and echocardiography of jumping horses after a water treadmill training for 10 weeks, 18th World Equine Veterinary Association
• 2025-07, COMPOSIÇÃO CORPORAL DE EQUINOS SUBMETIDOS A UM TREINO COM A PASSADEIRA AQUÁTICA, XXV Conferência Anual ABRAVEQ
• 2020-03-06, Persistência de sintomatologia respiratória após cirurgia corretiva de um encarceramento da epiglote associado a defeito congénito do palato mole, XII Jornadas do Hospital Veterinário da Muralha de Évora
• 2019-11-06, Infecção por Parasitas gastrointestinais em cavalos de Puro Sangue Lusitano com síndrome de Asma Equina Grave, VI Jornadas do Grupo de Trabalho e Investigação em Equídeos
• 2015-11, Utilização de testes de função pulmonar em equídeos com Obstrução Recorrente das Vias Aéreas, IV Jornadas do Grupo de Trabalho de Investigação em Equídeos
• 2015-11, Uso da gastroscopia na avaliação da evolução do tratamento de síndrome de úlcera gástrica equina (SUGE), IV Jornadas do Grupo de Trabalho de Investigação em Equídeos
• 2015, Componente genética de lesões de osteocondrose em poldros Puro-Sangue Lusitano, IV Jornadas do Grupo de Trabalhos de Investigação em Equideos
• 2014-05, Utilização da gastroscopia no despiste da Síndrome de Úlcera Gástrica Equina (SUGE), III Ciclo de Actualização em Medicina Equina (CAME) e I Simpósio da Associação de Médicos Veterinários de Equinos da Bahia (SIMAMVEBA)
• 2011-05, Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant staphylococci among sick and healthy horses in Portugal, 21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the 27th International Congress of Chemotherapy