Vera Lúcia Conceição de Gouveia Santos

She holds a PhD (1996), a master's degree (1989), and an undergraduate degree in Nursing (1976) from the USP School of Nursing - EEUSP. She is a Full Professor at EEUSP after obtaining her Full Professorship in 2006. Head of the Medical-Surgical Nursing Department (2019-2021). She is a member of the Brazilian Association of Stomatherapy: ostomy, wounds, and Incontinence (SOBEST), of which she is a founding member, having been its president from 1992 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2001, remaining a member of its Scientific Council from 2003 to 2015. Since 2015, she has been elected Director of SOBEST's International Relations Department. In October 2014, she received the Honorary Title of Specialist Emeritus in Stomatherapy (TiSOBEST Emeritus). She has been a World Council of Enterostomal Therapists (WCET) member since 1992, holding the position of Coordinator of its Education Committee in the 2012-2014 and 2014-2016 administrations. She is also a member of other international associations, such as the International Society For Quality Of Life Research (ISOQOL), the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing Society (WOCNS), and the International Continence Society (ICS). She holds positions of coordination or International representation in Confederación Multidisciplinar Latinoamericana de Heridas, Estomías e Incontinencias - COMLHEI (Board of Directors of the Scientific Committee, since its foundation in 2017); World Union of Wound Healing Societies - WUWHS (Representative of South America, since 2016) and International Skin Tears Advisory Panel - ISTAP (Regional Director of Latin America 2017-2023). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing and Chronic Wound Care Management and Research and an ad hoc reviewer for numerous national and international journals. She is the leader of the Stomatherapy Research Group: stomas, acute and chronic wounds, and urinary and anal incontinence - GPET, registered with CNPq since 2004. He has participated in developing and revising consensus and best practices in stomas and wounds with SOBEST, ISTAP, and the International Wound Infection Institute/ Curtin University. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)