Education
Isabel Fonseca (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8984-1751) graduated in Nutrition and Food Sciences by Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences (FCNAUP) from University of Porto (UP) in 1994. In 2000 she completed a Master Degree Program in Public Health (Biostatistics specialization) at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto/ Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of University of Porto (ICBAS/UP). In 2015 she got her PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences at ICBAS/UP with a thesis on “Predictive factors of graft dysfunction and long-term kidney allograft failure”.
Current Positions
Renal Nutritionist at Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Department of Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUPorto) and Clinical Nutritionist at Corino de Andrade’s Center, since 1995.
Team Leader of the Scientific Evaluation Area of the Education, Training and Research Department of CHUPorto, since 2006.
Invited Assistant Professor of Pathology and Nutrition II at Catholic University of Portugal (Porto) Faculty of Biotechnology, since 2018.
Research Areas of Interest
She is a research member of Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), being an integrated PhD research at Multidisciplinary Unit in Biomedical Research (UMIB) and a research collaborator of Epidemiological Research Unit (EPIUnit).
Her main research areas are related with kidney disease and kidney transplantation, focusing on graft dysfunction biomarkers, survival analysis and prognostic models. She has also a particular interest in nutritional evaluation methodologies and clinical research methods.
She has published more than 50 scientific papers in international journals, nine of which as a first author, and one book chapter.