Speaker
Prof. Margarida Santos
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Biography :
She is a psychologist. She is 65 years old, the mother of three women, and the grandmother of two adorable children. She has worked in the healthcare field for 42 years and has been teaching in higher education for 40 years — 27 of which have been dedicated to training physiotherapists. She believes she has learned, and continues to learn, a great deal from her students. She experiences the reality of physiotherapy closely, as she has muscular dystrophy. Her area of practice and research focuses on chronic illness, particularly in pediatrics.
