Ema Sacadura Leite

Ema Sacadura Leite is an Invited Associate Professor at ENSP NOVA, in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. Her areas of scientific interest are particularly related to Occupational Health in Hospitals and the health and safety of health professionals. She is also a researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC).

She is a Senior Assistant Professor of Occupational Medicine and Director of the Occupational Health Service at the Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (CHULN). She also teaches at the Faculty of Medicine in Lisbon. She is a Doctor and Specialist in Occupational Medicine and Pneumology by the Portuguese Medical Association.

She has a PhD in Public Health, in the specialty of Environmental and Occupational Health from ENSP NOVA.

PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATION AND TEACHING

• Occupational Pathology and Clinic, on the Occupational Medicine course
• Seminar on Fitness for Work, in the Occupational Medicine course
  Internship 2, on the Occupational Medicine course
• Guidance and tutoring of trainees on the Occupational Medicine course
• Occupational Health and Safety in Health Units (Optional Module)

PARTICIPATION IN TEACHING

• Environmental and Occupational Health and Physical Determinants, in the Global Public Health PhD Program
• Occupational Health and Safety in Healthcare, in the Global Public Health PhD Program
• Occupational Pathology and Clinic, in the Master's Degree in Occupational Health
• Aptitude for Work Seminar, on the Master's Degree in Occupational Health (Optional Module)
• Occupational and Environmental Health, in the Doctoral Program in Public Health and in the Master's Program in Public Health
• Occupational Health (Optional Module)

Maria Henriqueta Dias Lourenço Garcia Louro | Manufactured nanomaterials: safety assessment through the characterization of their genetic effects | PhD Programme in Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Health Specialty | ENSP NOVA, 2014.

Telma Costa Cordeiro | Occupational exposure to the anaesthetic sevofluorane in operating theatres: study of the external dose-internal dose relationship (provisional title) | PhD in Public Health, Specialty in Environmental and Occupational Health. ENSP NOVA.

Cátia Alexandra Suzano dos Santos | Occupational exposure to asbestos and malignant mesothelioma of the pleura in Portugal (provisional title) | PhD in Public Health, Specialty in Environmental and Occupational Health. ENSP/NOVA,

The areas of research focus essentially on risk assessment in Occupational Health and Safety, with a focus on healthcare organizations. It essentially includes the assessment of chemical, psychosocial, physical, microbiological and “activity-related” risks.

Member of the Public Health Research Center (CISP).

She has been a member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of several Scientific Meetings and is the author or co-author of more than a hundred different interventions at congresses and other technical-scientific meetings (by invitation or in free communications).

• Sacadura-Leite E, Sousa-Uva A, Ferreira S, Costa P, Passos A. Working conditions and high emotional exhaustion in hospital nurses. Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho 17(1); 2019:69-75.
• Sacadura-Leite E, Galaio LM, Shapovalova O, Pereira I, Rocha R, Sousa-Uva A. Biological hazards for healthcare workers: occupational exposure to a Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as an example of a new challenge. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública 2018. Port J Public Health. 2018;36(1) DOI: 10.1159/000487746.
• Sacadura-Leite E, Sousa-Uva A, Rebelo-de-Andrade H. Antibody response to the influenza vaccine in healthcare workers. Vaccine. 2012;30(2):436-441
• Sacadura-Leite E, Sousa-Uva A, Rebelo-de-Andrade H, Ferreira S, Rocha R. Chronic stress and immune response to Influenza Vaccine in Healthcare workers. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública 32 (2014). 18-26.
• Sacadura-Leite E, Sousa Uva A. Manual de Saúde Ocupacional em Hospitais. Lisboa: Diário de Bordo, set. 2018 (1ªed). 1-731. ISBN 978-989-99884-6-0.Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho 2017. 15(3): 209-16.
• Moura P, Serranheira F, Sacadura-Leite, E. Psychosocial risks in psychiatry and Anaesthesiology residents in a Portuguese General Hospital. Med Lav. 2016 Mar 24;107(2):129-40.
• Tavares J, Sacadura-Leite E, Matoso T, Neto L, Biscoito L, Campos J, Sousa-Uva A. The importance of protection glasses during Neuroangiographies: A study on Radiation Exposure to the Lens of Primary Operator. Interventional Neuroradiology. 2016;22(3):368-371.

NOVA RESEARCH PORTAL: https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/persons/ema-maria-sacadura-leite

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2718-8472

CIENCIA VITAE: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/C619-8629-7004

- Representative of the Order of Physicians in the Monospecialized Section of Occupational Medicine of the European Union - UEMS, Member of the Board of the College of the Specialty of Occupational Medicine and of the training board (2000-2002).

- Technical Committee for the Revision of the List of Occupational Diseases, as representative of ENSP NOVA since April 2004 (since 2019 as alternate).

- Member of the Directorate-General for Health's technical-scientific working group for occupational risk assessment and health surveillance of workers exposed to ionizing radiation, as an Expert representing ENSP NOVA (2014-2016).

Member of the Directorate-General for Health's technical-scientific working group for occupational risk assessment and health surveillance of workers exposed to carcinogens, mutagens or agents toxic to reproduction, as an expert representing the SPMT (2016-2018).

- Member of the Directorate-General for Health's technical-scientific working group for occupational risk assessment and health surveillance of workers exposed to psychosocial risk factors in the workplace, as an Expert representing ENSP NOVA (2018-2020).

- Member of the Working Group of the Ministry of Health (order 3118/2018), to draw up a proposal for an action plan to promote well-being at work in the bodies and entities of the Ministry of Health (2018).

- She has been a member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees of various Scientific Meetings and is the author or co-author of more than a hundred different speeches at congresses and other technical-scientific meetings (by invitation or in free communications).