Teacher
Emília Da Conceição Azeitona Correia Alves

Resume

Ph.D. in Health Sciences (Nutrition) from the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain (2022). Postgraduate degree in Metabolic Diseases and Eating Behavior from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (2013). Degree in Nutrition Sciences from the Atlantic University (2013). Post-graduation in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics (2003). Degree in Chemical Engineering (pre-Bologna) from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (1992). Director of the Master in Clinical Nutrition at Lusófona University, School of Health Sciences and Technologies, since 2023. Auxiliar Professor at Lusófona University, School of Health Sciences and Technologies, since 2014, in the degrees of Bachelor in Nutrition Sciences, Master in Clinical Nutrition, Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Master in Health Products and Food Supplements. Member of CBIOS (Research Center in Biosciences and Technologies, Lusófona University) since 2017, developing research studies focused on the impact of functional foods on human health and disease. Experience in the clinical area of Nutrition since 2013.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  Health Sciences (Nutrition), Ph.D.
• Pós-Graduação
  Doenças Metabólicas e Comportamento Alimentar
• Licenciatura
  Ciências da Nutrição
• Licenciatura
  Engenharia Química
• Pós-Graduação
  Gestão
• Outros
  Formação Avançada Monitorização de Ensaios Clínicos
• Outros
  Advanced Training “Food Metabolites and the Impact of Microbiota”
• Outros
  Curso Atualização Profissional (CAP) - Alimentação na Gravidez

Publicações

Journal article

• 2023-04-20, Pharmacists’ Perceptions on Nutritional Counseling of Oral Nutritional Supplements in the Community Pharmacy: An Exploratory Qualitative Study, Pharmacy
• 2023, Food and Nutrition Knowledge of Elementary School Teachers in a Region of Lisbon, Portugal, Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research
• 2022-10-23, Kefir and the Gut–Skin Axis, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• 2022-07-19, The Impact of Kefir on Epidermal Water Homeostasis in Healthy Human Skin, Life
• 2021-11-13, Homemade Kefir Consumption Improves Skin Condition—A Study Conducted in Healthy and Atopic Volunteers, Foods
• 2021-11-04, Probiotics in the gut-skin axis – the case of kefir, Journal Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research
• 2021-05-11, Characterization of Kefir Produced in Household Conditions: Physicochemical and Nutritional Profile, and Storage Stability, Foods
• 2021-04, Acceptability of kefir produced by fermentation of Portuguese milk with CIDCA AGK1 grains in a sample of Portuguese consumers, Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research Journal
• 2020-06-09, The Possible Influence of Microbiota on Food Compulsion, Open Access Journal of Biomedical Science
• 2019-06, Determination of relevant endpoints to evaluate the in vivo barrier function in cutaneous health, Journal Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research

Manual

• 2018, 5 Questões sobre Baby Led Weaning, Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição

Conference poster

• 2023-06, Health Literacy in a Sample of Portuguese Adults: A question of empowerment., Congresso de Saúde Pública, Lisboa, Portugal
• 2022, More Evidence on The Gut-Skin Axis Modulation by Kefir., 2nd International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Physiology, Coimbra, Portugal
• 2022, Kefir intake reduces the clinical severity in atopic dermatitis by improving epidermal “barrier”., ISBS 2022 - World Congress on Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin, Berlin, Germany
• 2021, Variabilidade na função de barreira da pele de indivíduos saudáveis, induzida pela ingestão de kefir., XXV Congresso Latino-Americano e Ibérico de Quimicos Cosmeticos-COLAMIQC- I, Venezuela
• 2020, Impact of kefir consumption on cutaneous health assessed using an SLS-induced lesion model. , 55th Annual Congress of SBFIS, Brasil
• 2019-10-10, Assessment of the impact of oral intake of the probiotic kefir in cutaneous health., Physioma 2019 - 1st International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Physiology, Lisbon, Portugal