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José António Pereira da Silva

O autor nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, filho de emigrantes portugueses, em 1957 e reside em Portugal desde 1965. É casado com Manuela Ferreira e pai de dois filhos.

Os seus principais interesses de investigação incluem a neuroimunoendocrinologia, e as dimensões psicossociais das doenças reumáticas com destaque para o impacto da (in)felicidade, mantendo atividade intensa na inovação em Educação Médica. É, também, autor de >250 capítulos de livros e artigos em revistas internacionais (ORCID 0000-0002-2782-6780).

Para além da medicina, amizade, música e jardinagem contam-se entre os seus principais interesses extraprofissionais

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Atividades

O autor recebendo das mãos do Presidente da EULAR (2003-2005), Prof. Josef Smollen, de Viena de Áustria, o EULAR Honorary Membership for Distinguished Services. Testemunham o ato o Prof. Joachim Kalden, de Ehrlangen, Alemanha (Presidente EULAR 2001-2003) e Neil Betteridge, então Vice-Presidente da EULAR para as ligas sociais.

  • Professor Catedrático de Reumatologia na Universidade de Coimbra
  • Editor da Ata Reumatológica Portuguesa de 1998 a 2002 e seu editor associado desde então.
  • Membro atual do Conselho editorial de Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Clinical Rheumatology, Future Rheumatology and Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology.
  • Chairman do EULAR Standing Committee for Education and Training e amembro dos Comités Executivo e Científico da EULAR de 2001 a 2005. Desenhou e promoveu, nestas funções, o EULAR Online Course on the Rheumatic Diseases.
  • Presidente do European Board of Rheumatology (European Union of Specialist Physicians), de 2006 a 2010.
  • Coordenador do Ensino Médico Pré-graduado da Faculdade de Medicina de Coimbra de 2001 a 2007.

Publicações selecionadas (2018-2020)

  • Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: an individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2020-10-06 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217171
  • 2019 EULAR points to consider for the assessment of competences in rheumatology specialty training. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2020-08-11 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218015
  • ‘It can’t be zero!’ Difficulties in completing patient global assessment in rheumatoid arthritis: a mixed methods study. Rheumatology | 2020-05-01 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kez467
  • The Patient Global Assessment in RA precludes the majority of patients otherwise in remission to reach this status in clinical practice. Should we continue to ignore this? Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism | 2020-05 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2020.03.014
  • Shared decision‐making in people with chronic disease: Integrating the biological, social and lived experiences is a key responsibility of nurses. Musculoskeletal Care | 2020-03-14 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1002/msc.1443
  • The impact of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis and the challenges of its assessment Rheumatology | 2019-11-01 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kez351
  • Influence of Antisynthetase Antibodies Specificities on Antisynthetase Syndrome Clinical Spectrum Time Course. Journal of Clinical Medicine | 2019-11 | journal-article. DOI: 10.3390/jcm8112013
  • Dual target strategy: a proposal to mitigate the risk of overtreatment and enhance patient satisfaction in rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2019-10-20 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214199
  • Ultrasonography for the Assessment of Skin in Systemic Sclerosis: A Systematic Review. Arthritis care & research | 2019-04-01 | journal-article. PMID: 29781576DOI: 10.1002/acr.23597
  • Derivation and validation of the SLE Disease Activity Score (SLE-DAS): a new SLE continuous measure with high sensitivity for changes in disease activity. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2019-03-09 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214502
  • Impact of patient global assessment on achieving remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multinational study using the METEOR database. Arthritis care & research | 2019-03-01 | journal-article. PMID: 30821895DOI: 10.1002/acr.23866
  • Performance of SLEDAI-2K to detect a clinically meaningful change in SLE disease activity: a 36–month prospective cohort study of 334 patients. Lupus | 2019 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1177/0961203319836717EID: 2-s2.0-85063355212
  • Multifactorial explanatory model of depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a structural equation approach. Clinical and experimental rheumatology | 2018-11-12 | journal-article. PMID: 30418126
  • The Portuguese Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score and its measurement equivalence in three countries: validation study using Rasch Models. Quality of Life Research | 2018-11-01 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1007/s11136-018-1959-4
  • The many faces of IgG4-related disease: report of a case with inaugural recurrent aortic aneurism ruptures and literature review. Rheumatology International | 2018-08-12 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1007/s00296-018-4046-9

  • Adherence to the recommended prevention strategies before and after a hip fragility fracture: what makes us go blind? Acta reumatologica portuguesa | 2018-05 | journal-article. PMID: 29795053

  • Determinants of happiness and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a structural equation modelling approach. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2018-04-06 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212934

  • Suppressing Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Does Patient Global Assessment Blur the Target? A Practice-Based Call for a Paradigm Change. Arthritis care & research | 2018-01-30 | journal-article. PMID: 28544615DOI: 10.1002/acr.23284

  • Glucocorticoids are always under suspicion – Is the perception of their risks unbiased? Journal of Rheumatology | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.171331EID: 2-s2.0-85042711733

  • Increased frequencies of circulating CXCL10-, CXCL8- and CCL4-producing monocytes and Siglec-3-expressing myeloid dendritic cells in systemic sclerosis patients. Inflammation Research | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1007/s00011-017-1106-7EID: 2-s2.0-85033467240

  • Influence of the different “patient global assessment” formulations on disease activity score by different indices in rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical Rheumatology | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1007/s10067-018-4063-9EID: 2-s2.0-85043375082

  • Is current smoking status and its relationship to anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies a predictor of worse response to biological therapies in rheumatoid arthritis patients?. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1080/03009742.2017.1418423EID: 2-s2.0-85045830914

  • Just a painful swelling of the ankles? BMJ (Online) | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k436EID: 2-s2.0-85043577196

  • Multitarget therapy of mycophenolate mofetil and cyclosporine A for induction treatment of refractory lupus nephritis. Lupus | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1177/0961203318758508EID: 2-s2.0-85047973653

  • Portuguese recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis and management of primary osteoporosis – 2018 update. Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa | 2018 | journal-article. EID: 2-s2.0-85042563942

  • Preventing progression from arthralgia to arthritis: Targeting the right patients. Nature Reviews Rheumatology | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2017.185EID: 2-s2.0-85038410813

  • The leopard woman: A subacute and rare presentation. Rheumatology (United Kingdom) | 2018 | journal-article. DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kex311EID: 2-s2.0-85043322707

  • The Portuguese Society of Rheumatology position paper on the use of biosimilars – 2017 update. Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa | 2018 | journal-article. EID: 2-s2.0-85042565771

  • Timing of onset affects arthritis presentation pattern in antisynthetase syndrome. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 2018 | journal-article. EID: 2-s2.0-85042159097