Paula Ravasco is an expert in Nutrition at Hospital de Santa Maria (Portugal). Paula Ravasco has authored 141 publications, the most recent in 2025, and is an investigator in 2 clinical trials. SLR score: 466 (community average: 125). How the SLR is computed.

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Paula Ravasco, MD, PhD Hospital de Santa Maria Portugal
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Nutrition

Subspecialties: Oncology - Pharmacy - Public Health

Full career – Last 3 years

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Publications and Clinical Studies

Publications – Clinical Studies

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Medical Doctor, Specialist Immuno-haemotology (OM55311)

Nutritionist, Clinical Nutrition Specialist (ON0047N)

PhD Clinical Nutrition, Oncology and Metabolism

Competence in Clinical Nutrition by Ordem dos Médicos (National Board of Physicians)

Competence in Clinical Nutrition by ESPEN (Eur Soc Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism)

Competence in Clinical Research by Faculty Medicine University Lisbon, Portugal

Develops clinical activity in clinical nutrition, oncological nutrition, metabolism, clinical medicine

Associate Professor of Medicine, Nutrition, Scientific Research, Diet Therapy and Physiological Biochemistry


Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (FM-UCP) Faculty Members | FM-WEBSITE (ucp.pt) Catholic Medical School (ucp.pt)

  1. Professor of Nutrition, Medicine and Scientific Research, pre and postgraduate
  2. Member of the Scientific Council scientific board | FM-WEBSITE (ucp.pt)
  3. Librarian Professor responsible for educational resources and digital platform’s
  4. Coordinator of the 2nd curricular year (pedagogical, academic and educational)
  5. Member of the Scientific and Installation Board of the Doctoral Program, coordinating the post-graduate topic/area of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism in health and disease Doutoramento em Ciências Médicas | FM-WEBSITE (ucp.pt)


Director of the International Post-Graduate Program "Nutrition and Metabolism in Cancer" of Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Católica Portuguesa Pós-Graduação em Nutrição e Metabolismo em Oncologia | FM-WEBSITE (ucp.pt)


Team Leader and Principal Investigator at The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health at UCP & CatolicaMed Platfform https://fm.ucp.pt/investigacao/catolicamed, CAtólicaREsearch – CARE, UCP, Pure 5.20.2 (ucp.pt)


Associate Professor of Physiological Biochemistry at the Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), ) Egas Moniz - Cooperativa de Ensino Superior

Principal Investigator at The Center for Interdisciplinary Research Egas Moniz (CiiEM),

Associate Professor of Diet therapy at Instituto Universitário Atlântica (UATLA)


Program Leader of the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Nutrition at University of Buckingham, Clinical Nutrition Certificate Online | Diploma MSc (diploma-msc.com)


Member of the ESPEN Faculty and of the Guidelines committee ESPEN Guidelines (2016-) | Associate Editor Clinical Nutrition - Journal - Elsevier (2018-) | Specialty Chief Editor for Clinical Nutrition (specialty section of Frontiers in Nutrition | Clinical Nutrition)

Member of the ESPEN expert group NEMS (Nutrition Education in Medical Schools)


Author and co-author of more than 80 original scientific articles published peer-review journals.

Member of the Scientific Council of Conferences, Congresses and Pre- and Post-graduate courses in clinical nutrition, metabolism, medicine, oncology


Organizations

Career arc: 2003 - 2026

Source: PubMed

Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Publications Synthesis

Sources: PubMed, OpenAlex

Number : 141

Citations

Citations: 14 603 1st author: 45 Last author: 51 Unique author: 7


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Latest Publications

5 most recent indexed articles

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Title Journal Year Citations
A Systematic Review of Vitamin D Supplementation in Oncology: Chance of Science or Effectiveness?
PMID 40004963 — radiotherapy, vitamin d, vitamins, neoplasms, food, neoadjuvant therapy, therapeutics
Nutrients20250
Body Composition Analysis in Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Depicting Sarcopenia in Portuguese Tertiary Care.
PMID 39941905 — cells, lung, neoplasms, body composition, carcinoma, non-small-cell lung, lung neoplasms, small cell lung carcinoma, tertiary healthcare, prognosis, sarcopenia
Cancers (Basel)20251
The impact of pre-, pro- and synbiotics supplementation in colorectal cancer treatment: a systematic review.
PMID 38807764 — microbiota, therapeutics, colorectal neoplasms, prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics
Front Oncol20243
Nutritional care in older adults: are we doing everything? An expert opinion review.
PMID 39044672 — muscles, malnutrition, neoplasms, drug therapy, research, deglutition disorders, hip fractures, frailty, sarcopenia
Curr Med Res Opin20240
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) for the Assessment of Body Composition in Oncology: A Scoping Review.
PMID 38004186 — food, neoplasms, body composition, cross-sectional studies
Nutrients202340

Clinical Studies 2

Sources: ClinicalTrials, EU CTIS

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By phase:

N/A 1
Phase 3 1

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Unknown 2

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Interventional 2

By Monocentric/Multicentric:

monocentric 2
multicentric2to4 0
multicentric5to9 0
multicentricup10 0

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