Hortênse Cotrim
SHORT BIO
Hortense Cotrim is an integrated researcher in the NursID group, part of the Preventive Medicine and Societal Challenges Thematic Line at CINTESIS.
She completed the General Nursing course at the School of Nursing S. Vicente de Paulo in 1983, followed by the specialization course in Medical-Surgical Nursing in 1994. She earned a master’s degree in Nursing Sciences from the Portuguese Catholic University in 1998 and a Ph.D. from the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS) in 2008. She also pursued postgraduate studies in Health Services Management at the Institute of Labour and Business Sciences (ISCTE) in 2001, a master’s degree in Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon in 2011, and a master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, again at ICBAS, in 2017.
In her nursing career, she served as a team leader in the Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital de Santa Marta and as head nurse at the Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal. In 2001, she accepted an invitation to establish the Nursing course at the Egas Moniz School of Health, where she worked as the course coordinator and associate professor. In 2017, upon invitation from the University of Algarve, she started working as an adjunct professor at the School of Health. As a researcher, her focus has mainly been in the field of colorectal cancer.