The new President of the Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), António Fernando Salgueiro Amaral, takes office tomorrow (September 16) in a ceremony at the auditorium of Campus A (Avenida Bissaya Barreto).
The solemn act also includes the investiture of the new ESEnfC vice-presidents, Conceição Alegre de Sá and Manuela Frederico-Ferreira, as well as the advisers of the presidency: Armando Marques Silva, Dulce Pereira Galvão, José Carlos Santos, and Verónica Dias Coutinho.
Elected last July 20th for the 2022-2026 four-year term, Fernando Amaral defined as priorities for the mandate the integration into the University, the valorization of teaching, cooperation, and internationalization, the investment in research, and the creation of a school open to the world.
ESEnfC Coordinating Professor and specialist nurse in Medical-Surgical Nursing, with the option of infection control, the new ESEnfC President has a course in Pedagogy Applied to Nursing Education and a course in Strategic Management of Higher Education Institutions at the UNESCO Chair of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He holds a master's in Health Management and Economics from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra and a Ph.D. in Business Management, in the specialty of Organizational Strategy and Behavior, from the University of Coimbra, where he developed a thesis on the effectiveness of nursing care.
Fernando Amaral was also the main researcher of some research projects funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the European Union, and the Ordem dos Enfermeiros (Portuguese Nursing regulator).
In the teaching career since 1988 - he joined the Bissaya Barreto Nursing School - the current coordinator of the ESEnfC National and International Relations Office has already held the positions of president and vice-president of the Scientific Council and Pedagogical Council. He has also been part of the General Council for the last three mandates.
Aida Maria de Oliveira Cruz Mendes was the School’s President for the last four years, a position to which she did not run again due to the age limit.
[2022-09-15]
