João Fonseca
João Fonseca
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Research Group: PaCeIT – Patient Centered Innovation and Technologies
Thematic Line: TL3 – Health Data & Decision Sciences & Information Technologies
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Allergy, Immunology, Respiratory System, Asthma, Rhinitis, Urticaria, Anaphylaxis, Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO), Mobile Health

updated on 16/03/2018

João Almeida Lopes Fonseca is the principal investigator of the PaCeIT research group of CINTESIS.

He is an Associated Professor with Agregação (tenure) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). He is responsible for the Allergy Unit of the Institute CUF Porto. He is also the Coordinator of two of the Doctoral Programmes of FMUP.

João Fonseca founded MEDIDA, a spin-off of CINTESIS/University of Porto, and co-directed the Programme Harvard Medical School Portugal. He has co-authored more than 250 publications and has been involved in more than 25 research projects. In eigth of those projects he was the principal investigator, namely, “Control and Burden of Asthma and Rhinitis”, “Chronic diseases of the airways – contents and tools for productive interactions between empowered patients and proactive professionals” (financed by the Portuguese Foundation for science and Technology – FCT), the “CARAT project – Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Questionnaire” (www.caratnetwork.org), mINSPIRER and AIRDOC.

TITLE: Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA): Achievements in 10 years and future needs
AUTHORS: Bousquet, J; Schunemann, HJ; Samolinski, B; Demoly, P; Baena Cagnani, CE; Bachert, C; Bonini, S; Boulet, LP; Bousquet, PJ; Brozek, JL; Canonica, GW; Casale, TB; Cruz, AA; Fokkens, WJ; Fonseca, JA; Van Wijk, RG; Grouse, L; Haahtela, T; Khaltaev, N; Kuna, P; …More
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, VOLUME: 130, ISSUE: 5, PUBLISHED: 2012

TITLE: Effects of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation on respiratory parameters for patients with chronic airway secretion encumbrance
AUTHORS:  Winck, JCGoncalves, MR; Lourenco, C; Viana, P; Almeida, J; Bach, JR;
SOURCE: CHEST, VOLUME: 126, ISSUE: 3, PUBLISHED: 2004

TITLE: Exhaled nitric oxide levels and blood eosinophil counts independently associate with wheeze and asthma events in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey subjects
AUTHORS: Andrei Malinovschi; Joao A FonsecaTiago JacintoKjell Alving; Christer Janson;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, VOLUME: 132, ISSUE: 4, PUBLISHED: 2013

TITLE: Development and implementation of guidelines in allergic rhinitis – an ARIA-GA2LEN paper
AUTHORS: Bousquet, J; Schunemann, HJ; Zuberbier, T; Bachert, C; Baena Cagnani, CE; Bousquet, PJ; Brozek, J; Canonica, GW; Casale, TB; Demoly, P; Gerth van Wijk, R; Ohta, K; Bateman, ED; Calderon, M; Cruz, AA; Dolen, WK; Haughney, J; Lockey, RF; Lotvall, J; O’Byrne, P; …More
SOURCE: ALLERGY, VOLUME: 65, ISSUE: 10, PUBLISHED: 2010

TITLE: Drug allergy claims in children: from self-reporting to confirmed diagnosis
AUTHORS:  Rebelo R GomesFonseca, J; Araujo, L; Demoly, P;
SOURCE: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY, VOLUME: 38, ISSUE: 1, PUBLISHED: 2008

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