Pedro Aguiar

Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Statistics, PhD in International Health and Master in Probability and Statistics.

His research interests are in Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology, Statistical Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Substance Abuse and Dependence.

PARTICIPATION IN TEACHING

Statistics, Master's Degree in Health Management
Statistics in Hospital Administration, Specialization Course in Hospital Administration
Advanced Statistics for Public Health Doctors, on the Specialization Course in Public Health
Research Methods in Public Health, Specialization Course in Public Health
Epidemiology Seminar, in the Public Health PhD Program
Statistics, in the Global Health PhD Program
Statistical Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, in the Global Health PhD Program

Maria Clara Pinheiro Capucho | "Avaliação multidimensional na voz profissional " | Orientadores:  Pedro Manuel  Vargues  Aguiar, Moisés Carlos Bentes  Ruah, Pedro Alberto Brissos de Sousa Escada |  Doutoramento em Medicina, Especialidade Otorrinolaringologia, NMS-FCM 2018

Gonçalo Neto d' Almeida | "Contribuição da Unidade Funcional de Otoneurocirurgia e Neurorrinologia do Hospital de Egas Moniz para o tratamento da patologia da base do crânio" | Orientadores:  Pedro Manuel Vargues Aguiar,  Pedro Alberto Batista Brissos de Sousa Escada,  João Erse Goyri O'Neill, | Doutoramento em Medicina na Especialidade de Cirurgia e Morfologia Humana (Neurocirurgia), NMS-FCM 2017

Nuno Miguel de Faria Bento Duarte Fisioterapia | “Influência na qualidade de vida da mulher com cancro da mama submetida a cirurgia com biópsia do gânglio sentinela: Contributo para a qualidade do serviço em oncologia” | Doutoramento em Saúde Pública ENSP/NOVA 2016

Sofia Belo Ravara | “The Role of healthcare professional in tobacco control” | Doutoramento em Medicina, UBI 2015

He conducts research in the areas of epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, statistical methods in epidemiology, clinical trials, biostatistics and substance abuse and dependence.

Winner of the Clinical Epidemiology Prize of the Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences /MSD - 2012 - with the research “Prognostic factors of outpatient treatment on alcohol dependent patients: cohort study with six months of treatment follow-up”.

Aguiar P., Estatística em investigação epidemiológica: guia prático em medicina.  Lisboa: Climepsi editores, 2007.

Aguiar P, Nunes B. Odds Ratio: Reflexão sobre a validade de uma medida de referência em epidemiologia. Acta Médica Portuguesa, 26(5): 505-510, 2013

Aguiar P, Neto D, Lambaz R, Chick J, Ferrinho P. Prognostic factors during outpatient treatment for alcohol dependence: cohort study with 6 months of treatment follow-up. Alcohol and Alcoholism, DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/ags097, 2012.

Sobrinho L.G., Duarte J.S., Paiva I., Vicente V., Aguiar P. Paternal deprivation prior to adolescence and vulnerability to pituitary adenomas. Pituitary. DOI:10.1007/S11102-011-0324-1, 2011.

Neto D., Lambaz R., Aguiar P., Chick J., Effectiveness of sequential combined treatment (SCT) in comparison with the treatment as usual (TU) in the preventing relapse in alcohol dependence. Alcohol and Alcoholism 43(6):661-668, 2008.

Neto,D., Xavier,M., Aguiar,P. , David,M., Sardinha,L., Almeida,C., Sequential combined treatment of heroin addicted patients in Portugal with Naltrexone and family therapy. European Addiction Research,3,138-145, 1997.

Full details of publications can be found at:

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0074-7732

SCORPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006481715

Web of Science Researcher:  https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/B-2662-2013

Epidemiology Consultant for the Directorate-General for Health.

Consultant in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medical Writing at Eurotrials Scientific Consultants (Clinical Research Organization).

Participant in the international Erasmus Summer Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Rotterdam.