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Moderadores do Sucesso no Tratamento Cognitivo-Comportamental da Obesidade
Rita Tomás. Moderadores do Sucesso no Tratamento Cognitivo-Comportamental da Obesidade: Estudos em Mulheres Pré-Menopáusicas com Excesso de Peso e Obesidade Moderada. Cruz Quebrada: FMH [Mestrado, 2010].
Metodologia de Avaliação da Ingestão Nutricional e Comportamentos Alimentares Associados num Programa de Tratamento da Obesidade
Sílvia Coutinho. Metodologia de Avaliação da Ingestão Nutricional e Comportamentos Alimentares Associados num Programa de Tratamento da Obesidade. Lisboa: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa [Mestrado, 2011].
Predictors of Exercise Adherence and Weight Control: An Application of Self-Determination Theory.
Marlene Silva. Predictors of Exercise Adherence and Weight Control: An Application of Self-Determination Theory. Cruz Quebrada: FMH [Ph.D., 2010].
The role of body image in the context of obesity treatment and associated behaviors in women
Eliana Carraça. The Role of Body Image in the Context of Obesity Treatment and Associated Behaviors in Women. Cruz Quebrada: FMH [Ph.D., 2012].
Preditores de Qualidade de Vida Relacionada com a Saúde na Obesidade
Paulo Vieira. Preditores de Qualidade de Vida Relacionada com a Saúde na Obesidade. Cruz Quebrada: FMH [Ph.D., 2012]
Short- and long-term theory-based predictors of physical activity in previously overweight women
Anna Wasserkampf. Short- and Long-Term Theory-Based Predictors of Physical Activity in Previously Overweight Women. Maastricht: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences [Master, 2012].
Catarina Silva
Catarina Santos Silva is a PhD student in Physical Activity and Health speciality at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon. She is implementing the project “Physical Activity Promotion in Primary Health Care of the Portuguese National Health Service”, within a pilot project coordinated by the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health, through an individual doctoral scholarship financed by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation. Her current research focuses on the effectiveness of “real world” public health interventions to promote physical activity, particularly on the study of implementation determinants (barriers and facilitators) of such interventions. As a researcher, her path has been highlighted by her participation in several international research projects, funded by the European Commission (EuroFIT, NoHow, EUPAP), regarding the promotion of health behaviours (healthy eating and physical activity). She is a certified nutritionist, holding a master’s degree in High-Performance Training.
Inês Santos
Inês Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Lusófona University, and a researcher at the Research Center in Sports, Physical Education, Exercise and Health (CIDEFES), Lusófona University, and a collaborator at the Self-Regulation in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity (PANO-SR) Research Group, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon. She holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Dietetics and Nutrition, and a PhD in Physical Activity and Health. She has developed expertise in the area of self-regulation of weight loss maintenance and energy balance-related behaviours (physical activity and eating habits/behaviours). Additionally, her work has contributed to a better understanding of the epidemiology of weight loss attempts in adults across the world. She authored more than 30 international peer-reviewed articles and contributed to more than 40 abstracts/presentations in scientific conferences (Scopus h-index of 9). She has been an investigator in several National and EU projects. Recently, she was the operations coordinator of the NoHoW trial in Portugal (H2020-PHC-2014 SEP-210140063), a multi-centre 2x2 factorial randomised controlled trial investigating an evidence-based digital toolkit for weight loss maintenance in European adults. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Portuguese Weight Control Registry, an ongoing voluntary registry of Portuguese successful weight loss maintainers, and a collaborating partner of the International Weight Control Registry, a multi-centre research project developed to study individuals who succeeded in long-term weight management across the world. Since 2018 she integrates the Communications Committee of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA), which is the premier international society for nutrition and physical activity research. In 2019 she was elected Early Career Representative and in 2021 Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the ISBNPA.
Marta Marques
I am a Senior Researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre, NOVA Medical School, and I am a visiting research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London. I am a member of the Portuguese Behavioral Science COVID-19 Task Force, and of the Executive Committee of the European Health Psychology Society. Before this position, I was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. I obtained my PhD in Health Psychology from Leiden University, and I am a chartered clinical and health psychologist. My achievements have been recognised by two very prestigious international early career awards from the European Health Psychology Society and International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, as well as by invitations to join important expert commissions, such as the leading team responsible for developing the WHO global digital program for physical activity (B@Healthy B@Mobile mActive). My research focuses on applying health behaviour change theories to develop and evaluate complex digital interventions targeting a range of health behaviours (e.g. physical activity), and in advancing the methods for the development of the science of behaviour change.
António Palmeira
Dr. Palmeira is an Associate Professor at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, in Lisbon, Portugal. He has a multidisciplinary academic background, with Physical Education and Sport (BSc), Sport Psychology (MSc), and Exercise and Health (PhD) degrees, all from the Faculty of Human Movement, Technical University of Lisbon. At the Universidade Lusófona he is Coordinator of the Center for Studies in Exercise and Health since 2005 and the Director of the Masters Program in Exercise and Well-Being.
Behavior change in obesity treatment is his major focus of research. He began looking at the predictive power of several behavior change theories , and now he is narrowing his focus to the role of treatment changes in subjective well-being and body image variables as potential predictors of long-term weight loss. He presents his work regularly at ISBNPA, NAASO/The Obesity Society and in Sport and Exercise Psychology conferences. He has won a national prize as a young investigator in sport sciences and the work developed with his master thesis toped 2nd place at the European Young Investigator Award from the European Federation of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
Presently his focus is on the exercise role on adolescent’s obesity. He works in the TOP project (Treatment of Pediatric Obesity - Tratamento da Obesidade Pediátrica) with the Obese Adolescent Consult at the Hospital de Santa Maria, which received a funding from the Portuguese Science Foundation for 2010-2013.
He is the Vide-President of the Portuguese Society of Sport Psychology (SPPD), participated actively at the formation of the European Network of Young Specialist in Sport Psychology (ENYSSP) and he is one of the Portuguese delegates of SPPD in the international sport psychology institutions. He is also an International Affiliate of the American Psychological Association (since 1996), a member of NAASO/The Obesity Society (since 2001) and ISBNPA (since 2004), as well as several Portuguese associations related with the study of health behavior. He has been in the organizing committee of several international and national conferences in the field of sport and exercise psychology and obesity.
He was the chair of the organizing committee for the Satellite Symposium of the ISBNPA 2009 meeting, held in Sintra on June 21-23, 2009, and he is currently responsible for producing the ISBNPA newsletter, as member of the ISBNPA Communications Committee.
He is 41 years old and a father of two children, aged 10 and 8 years old.