Original Name:

Associação Portuguesa de Tratamento de Feridas (APTFeridas)

Country:

Portugal

Contact info and web site:

Email: aptferidas@aptferidas.com 
Website: www.aptferidas.com

Name of President:

Dr. Aníbal Justiniano

Executive Board/Council:

General Assembly:
Delfim António da Cruz Oliveira, president
João Pedro Couceiro Valente de Sá Couto, vice president
Maria Fernanda Lima Peixoto, secretary

Directive Council:
Aníbal António Gil de Sousa Justiniano, president
Paulo Jorge Pereira Alves, vice president
Vanessa Filipa Ferreira Dias, secretary
Anabela Moura Teixeira Pereira da Silva, treasurer
Maria Arminda Barbosa de Castro Guimarães Costeira
Filomena Maria Rodrigues de Sousa Pinheiro da Mota
Domingos António Rodrigues Malta
Anabela Fernandes Gomes
Eduardo Filipe Mendes Capitão

Financial Monitoring Executive Board/Council:
José Carlos Bacelo Pereira da Silva, president
Maria de Fátima Bento Queirós Carvalho, secretary
Ana Raquel Carvalho Pereira, recorder

Cooperating Organisation board representative:

Dr. Aníbal Justiniano

Articles in EWMA Journal:

• EWMA Journal Vol 3 No 1. 2003
  
• EWMA Journal Vol 4 No 1. 2004
  
• EWMA Journal Vol 8 No 1. 2008
  
• EWMA Journal Vol 9 No 3. 2009

No. of Members:

720

Year of foundation:

1998

Main purpose/objective of the association:

• Promoting principles and rules on wound management;
  
• Developing self-consciousness of wound management caregivers;
  
• Promoting Post-Graduate University Courses and Master Courses;
  
• Collaborating with EWMA, EPUAP, SILAUHE and other National Organisations;
  
• Researching in wound management;
  
• Organising National Congresses (each 3 years), seminars and symposiums;
  
• Collaborating with the Portuguese Public Health and others Public or Private Health Organisations;
  
• Collaborating with Portuguese Catholic University (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and other Superior Education Schools;
  
• Promoting publications

Journal:

Journal of Tissue Regeneration & Healing (www.thr-journal.com) – aprrox. 2 issues/year

Contact person: Domingos Malta
aptferidas@aptferidas.com

Activities:

• National Congress (each 3 years);
  
• International Symposium (each year except the year of the Congress);
  
• Education Courses;
  
• Collaboration in Seminars organized by other Health Organisations;
  
• Education Actions (in Hospitals, Health Centre’s, Nursing Schools’; Portuguese  Pharmaceutics Associations) (two or three per month)