Liane Correia Costa

GRADUATION:
- MD, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP), 2008 (17 (seventeen) points on 0-20 scale).
- PhD, Clinical and Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 2015 (approved unanimously).


CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
- Pediatric graduated assistant and Pediatric Nephrologist at Centro Materno-Infantil do Norte, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, since 2016. Pediatric resident at Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, from 2010 to 2016.
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Instituto de Ciência Biomédicas de Abel Salazar, University of Porto, since 2016. Voluntary
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics of Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, from 2010 to 2016.
- Coordinator of Education and Research Unit at Centro Materno-Infantil do Norte, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto.
- Coordinator of the Scientific Research Support Office of Academic Clinical Center ICBAS-Santo António.
- Post-doctoral researcher at Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, since 2015.
- Associated Editor of Porto Biomedical Journal since 2015 and Portuguese Pediatric Journal since 2016.
- Member of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Pediatrics, since 2016.
- Member of the Working Group (Pediatrics) for the National Board Examination (Prova Nacional de Acesso ao Internato Médico), since 2018.


RESEARCH AREAS:
Clinical research in obesity, cardiovascular risk and chronic kidney disease in childhood; perinatal and pediatric epidemiology.