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Bruno Heleno

Professor Professor Auxiliar
Principal Investigator

Bruno Miguel Costa Heleno. MD (2005, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology (2015, University of Copenhagen).

He is an Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School, where he teaches general practice, evidence-based practice and clinical research methods. He is a co-coordinator for the PhD in Medicine program and several evidence-based practice courses.

He is also a GP-consultant in ULS Santa Maria, and a researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre. He published 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 3 sections of books. Participates as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 4 project(s), 2 funded by the EU Commission. He interacted with 453 collaborator(s). The most frequent terms in the context of scientific outputs are: Evidence-based medicine; Family practice; General practice; Medical Education; Medical Overuse; Multimorbidity; Quaternary prevention.

  • Proença-Portugal M, Heleno B, Dias S, Gama A, Baptista S. General practitioners’ perceptions on decision aids in healthcare: a qualitative study in Portugal. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2025 June 2;25(1):202.
  • Pires-Vieira B, Perelman J, Santos M, Heleno B. Unveiling the process behind quality indicator selection in Portuguese primary healthcare - a qualitative study. BMC Prim Care. 2025 Nov 25;26(1):378.
  • Petriček G, Klemenc-Ketiš Z, Ožvačić Adžić Z, Cerovečki V, Willems S, Tsimtsiou Z, et al. European general practitioners’ attitudes towards person-centred care and factors that influence its implementation in everyday practice: The protocol of the cross-sectional PACE GP/FP study in 24 European countries. Eur J Gen Pract. 2025 Dec;31(1):2463630.
  • Alves M, Serra S, Costa T, Brás-Geraldes C, Papoila AL, Heleno B. Growth curve models for weight among infants: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth. 2025 Feb 1;23(2):401–7.
  • Haugaard AK, Saude Conde R, J Maria AR, Vithal Yergolkar A, Jørgensen KJ, Heleno B. Immunotherapy for advanced and recurrent malignant pleural mesothelioma. Cochrane Lung Cancer Group, editor. Cochrane Database Syst Rev [Internet]. 2024 Sept 18 [cited 2024 Oct 7];2024(9). Available from: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/14651858.CD014720
  • Fonseca M, Marvão P, Rosado-Pinto P, Rendas A, Heleno B. Promoting clinical reasoning in undergraduate Family Medicine curricula through concept mapping: a qualitative approach. Adv in Health Sci Educ [Internet]. 2024 June 24 [cited 2024 June 27]; Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-024-10353-z
  • Fonseca M, Broeiro-Gonçalves P, Barosa M, Marvão P, Carreira M, Azeredo-Lopes S, et al. Concept mapping to promote clinical reasoning in multimorbidity: a mixed methods study in undergraduate family medicine. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Dec 18;24(1):1478.
  • Duarte ST, Moniz A, Costa D, Donato H, Heleno B, Aguiar P, et al. Low back pain management in primary healthcare: findings from a scoping review on models of care. BMJ Open. 2024 May 15;14(5):e079276.
  • Ares-Blanco S, Guisado-Clavero M, Lygidakis C, Fernández-García M, Petek D, Vinker S, et al. Exploring the accessibility of primary health care data in Europe’s COVID-19 response: developing key indicators for managing future pandemics (Eurodata study). BMC Prim Care. 2024 June 20;25(1):221.
  • Voss T, Krag M, Martiny F, Heleno B, Jørgensen KJ, Brandt Brodersen J. Quantification of overdiagnosis in randomised trials of cancer screening: an overview and re-analysis of systematic reviews. Cancer Epidemiol. 2023 Mar 22;84:102352.
  • Marques P, Geraldes M, Gama A, Heleno B, Dias S. What is the role of attitudinal barriers on cervical cancer screening non-attendance? Findings from a cross-sectional study with migrant women in Portugal. BMC Womens Health. 2023 Feb 9;23(1):52.
  • Maria ARJ, Serra H, Castro MG, Heleno B. Telemedicine as a tool for continuing medical education. Fam Pract. 2023 Aug 14;cmad085.