Lisa Gomes, born in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), PhD from the Portuguese Catholic University, Institute of Health Sciences, Porto-Portugal. Has a Master's degree in Education Sciences and a Bachelor's degree in Nursing. She is a specialist in Rehabilitation Nursing and also has a degree has a Nursing Specialist. She is a Professor at University of Minho since 2005. Coordinator of the Mobility and Internationalization Commission (Erasmus Academic Coordinator) at the School of Nursing of the University of Minho and Member of the Postgraduate Course in Rehabilitation Nursing Committee. Develops her research at the Nursing Research Center (CIEnf) of the Nursing School of the University of Minho and the Research Unit in Health Sciences: Nursing UICISA:E Coimbra/ University of Minho. In the area of internationalization, she has taught in more than 10 countries and in 2019 was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Nursing Research at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Areas of interest: chronic disease; health literacy; health promotion; cardiac rehabilitation; emotional competence; digital environments in nursing education.