CURRICULUM VITAE Identification: Name: Pedro Cantista (António Pedro Pinto Cantista) Nationality: Portuguese. Born in Porto, 1956. Lives in Porto, Portugal. Graduation: Medical School: 1973-1979 (University of Porto- Portugal). Post Graduation in Medical Hydrology: 1981 (first classified). Speciality: Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 1986 1990 in the Hospital de Santo António, Porto, Portugal. (During his education period he accomplished several stages in his country and also abroad, namely at the Mayo Clinic Rehabilitation Department, Rochester - Minnesota, USA) Clinical Activity: Consultant Senior Doctor at the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine s Department of the Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto. Chair of the Amputee Unit of this Department. Member of the Diabetic Foot Multidisciplinary Team of the Hospital. Member of the Pain Unit of the Hospital. Consultant of the Rheumatology Unit of the Hospital. Clinical Director of the Termas de S. Jorge (Balneology) Clinical Director of the Termas de S. Vicente (Balneology) Clinical Director of the Termas de Luso (Balneology)
Teaching Activity Professor in the Porto University (Curso de Medicina do Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar). Chairman of the discipline of Medical Hydrology and member of the PRM teaching team. Also teaches in several other Faculties (in different Universities in Portugal and abroad), in fields such as Rehabilitation, Pain, Osteoporosis, Sports Medicine, Medical Hydrology. Responsible for the Education Program of the Residents in the PRM Department. Scientific Societies ISPRM - International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine s Regional Vice President for Europe (nominated and elected in June 2008 during the ISPRM Bruges meeting. - President Prof. Joel DeLisa) (till 2010) Member of ISPRM WHO Committee, together with the other Regional Vice Presidents - President of the Committee Prof. Gerold Stucki). Member of the Board of Governors of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, since 2003 Member of the Executive Board of the ESPRM - European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (President Prof. Alessandro Giustini). Former Secretary General of the Executive Board of the extinguished European Federation and also in the period of the foundation of the European Society - ESPRM, under the Presidency of Prof. Henk Stam). Portuguese Delegate to the UEMS-PRM Section since 1999. Delegate for Europe of the International Society of Medical Hydrology. President of the Portuguese Society of PRM from 2001 till 2007. (Vice President from 1998 till 2001). President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Society of PRM since 2007 President of the Portuguese Society of Medical Hydrology since 2007. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Society of Osteometabolic Diseases.
Member of the Sociedade Portuguesa das Ciências Médicas Academia Portuguesa de Medicina. Member of the Portuguese Society of Sports Medicine Member of the Portuguese Association of Arthroscopy Member of the Portuguese Society of the Knee Member of the Portuguese Society of Stroke Member of the Portuguese Association for the Study of Pain (National Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain - IASP) Organizing Activities Responsible for the Project of the new Rehabilitation Hospital of the North of Portugal (Head of the Executive Group). President of the Portuguese National Action Network of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 (World Campaign), between the years 2003 and 2004. Delegate of the UEMS-PRM Section for the International Steering Committee of this Bone and Joint Decade campaign. President of the International Congress for the Commemoration of the 50 th year of the Portuguese Society of PRM (October/2003, Santa Maria da Feira - Portugal). President of the 36 th Congress of the International Society of Medical Hydrology (June/2008, Porto- Portugal,) President of Honour of the PRM Mediterranean Congress of 2007. (October 2008, Vilamoura - Portugal) and also of the Portuguese Society of PRM. President or Organizer of more than thirty national and international congresses and other scientific meetings, including participation in scientific committees of ESPRM, ISPRM and Mediterranean Congresses of PRM. Member of the Committee of Private Medicine in the Portuguese Medical Association- Ordem dos Médicos ) Member of Balneology Commission of the Portuguese Health Ministry. Research During his career he developed some clinical research activity mainly in the fields of Amputee Rehabilitation and Pain. He participated in
some projects of prostheses development, namely in the clinical application of pressure transducers commands devices and in an active extension knee prototype development (back in 1991). Currently is preparing a PhD theses under the title Determinant factors of disability in Amputees: an ICF Model approach. In pain he developed some studies mainly in Phantom limb pain. He has been working in the ICF Development project since 2001, by invitation of Prof Gerold Stucki, integrating the initial group for the establishment of the first ICF Core sets consensus. Publications He published a significant number of papers in Portuguese Journals and also a few in International Index Journals. He was Editor and Director of the Portuguese Journal of PRM Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação (official organ of the Portuguese Society of PRM) during 9 years. He remains as reviewer and member of the scientific committee of this journal. He also integrated the editor board of other journals, namely the Acta Fisiátrica, from Brazil, (International indexed), being the only non-brazilian element of this board Some recent published papers: ICF Cores Sets for depression. A.Cieza Somnad Chatterji, Christina Andersen, Pedro Cantista, Malvina Herceg, John Melvin, Gerold Stucki, Rob de Bie, J Rehabilitation Medicine, 2004 Jul.(44 suppl) 128-34, 15370760 Determinants of disability in Chronic Musculoskeletal health Conditions: a literature review, M Weigl, A Cieza, P Cantista, J Reinhardt, G Stucki, Europa Mediciphysica, 2007. Nov 9; 1798642 Physical disability due to musculoskeletal conditions". M Weigl, A Cieza, P Cantista, G Stucki, Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2007 Feb ;21 (1):167-90 17350551
White book on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in Europe Christoph Gutenbrunner 1, Anthony B Ward 2 and M Anne Chamberlain 3, editors 1 Chairman, Professional Practice Committee, UEMS Section of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine, 2 President, UEMS Section of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine and 3 President, Académie Européenne de Médecine de Réadaptation Issue: Volume 39, Issue 45, January 2007 Pages: 1-48 DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0028 (He was one of the contributors of the white book having written the original chapter Epidemiology of the function He collaborated in the preparation of this book published by the mentioned editors) Contributors: Prof. André Bardot (FR) Prof. Michel Barat (FR) Dr. Laurent Bensoussan (FR) Prof. Mihai Berteanu (RO) Dr. Pedro Cantista (PT) Prof. M Anne Chamberlain (UK) Dr. Nicolas Christodolou (CY) Dr. Alarcos Cieza (DE) Prof. Alain Delarque (FR) Prof. Jean-Pierre Didier (FR) Prof. Veronika Fialka-Moser (AU) Prof. Franco Franchignoni (IT) Prof. Alessandro Giustini (IT) Prof. Christoph Gutenbrunner (DE) Prof. Gustaaf Lankhorst (NL) Prof. Lindsay McLellan (UK) Dr. Fernando Parada (PT) Prof. João Páscoa Pinheiro (PT) Prof. Michael Quittan (AU) Prof. Bengt Sjölund (SE) Prof. Henk Stam (NL) Prof. Gerold Stucki (DE) Prof. Guy Vanderstraeten (BE) Dr. Anthony B Ward (UK) Dr. Jiri Votava (CZ) Prof. Jean-Michel Viton (FR)
Aulas de Fisiatria (Author of two of the chapters of this book used in undergraduate studies in Portuguese Universities) Scientific Prizes and Awards Prize Arquivos de Fisiatria 1997 with his work Contributo Fisiátrico para o sucesso das Reimplantações de Membros Amputados. ( Physiatric contribution for the success on the reimplantation of amputee limbs ) Prize for the best vídeo in the Spanish Congress of PRM1998 with the work Reimplantação de Membro Inferior Amputado. ( Reimplantation of an amputee lower limb ) Menção Honrosa Arquivos de Fisiatria 1995 with Primeira Aplicação de Joelho Protético Inteligente em Desarticulação da Anca.(First aplication of the intelligent knee in thehip disarticulation) Menção Honrosa Arquivos de Fisiatria 1996 with Prótese de Comando Proporcional por Transdutores de Pressão para Agenesia do Membro Superior.(Prosthese with proportional movement control by pressure transducers for upper limb agenesia) Menção Honrosa in the Jornadas Internacionais de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação do Hospital de S João 2004 (Porto) with Ectrodactilia das Mãos e Pés- A propósito de um Caso Clínico (Ectrodactily of the hands and feet: some considerations from a case report)
Hospital de Santo António Award due to First aplication in Portugal of the Utah Arm (March 1990) Hospital de Santo António Award for the Presentation in Portugal of the first Active Extension Electronic Knee (November 1991) Jury He was jury for awards and scientific prizes in more than ten times He was also Jury in public examinations and concourses Conferences, Scientific Talks, Oral Presentations and posters More than 400 oral presentations, including keynote lectures, conferences some of them in International Congresses, namely the European Congress of PRM, the Congress of the ISPRM. and the Mediterranean Congress of PRM Lectures in international courses (Example Mediterranean PRM Forum School, Syracuse 2006) Other activities He created a TV program in the Portuguese Cable TV dedicated to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He prepared those programs and presented them on TV