Vera Lucia Conceicao de Gouveia Santos

Full Professor at Medical Surgical Department, School of Nursing, University of São Paulo (EEUSP).

Bachelor (1976), Master (1989), Doctorate (1996) degrees at EEUSP; Post doctorate degree (2008) at Hospital del Mar Research Institute – IMIM (Barcelona, Spain); Leader of Research Group on Stoma Wound and Continence Care (registered on National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, since 2004); Coordinator of EEUSP ETNEP (since 1990); Foundation member and first president of the Brazilian Association of Enterostomal Therapy: stoma wound and continence care – SOBEST (1992-2001); Chair of the Education Committee of World Council of Enterostomal Therapists – WCET (2012-2016); Permanent Visitor Professor at the School of Nursing, Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal (since 2015); Director of SOBEST International Relationships Department (2015-2017); Chair of Education Committee of the Latin American Multidisciplinary Confederation of Wound Ostomy and Continence Care – COMLHEI (2016-2018); Member of Editorial Committee: Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing Journal, Estima Journal (Editor – 2009 to 2014), Chronic Wound Care Management and Research; Member ad hoc of many international and national journals (International indexed journals: International Journal Nursing Studies/ Journal of Advanced Nursing/ Journal of Patient Preference and Adherence/ Journal of Psychosomatic Research/ Diseases of Colon & Rectum/ Revista Avances en Enfermería, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Revista Panamericana de Salud, International Wound Journal, Journal SENSORS, Journal of Bioscience and Medicine, Revista Salud & Sociedad); Emerit ET Nurse – Ti-SOBEST (2015).