Margarida Branco

Clinical Psychologist (Member of the Portuguese Psychologists Association), in the Psychiatry and Mental Health Service – Liaison Psychiatry and Health Psychology Unit, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUPorto) since January 2005.
Cinical Psychologist at the Multidisciplinary Adult Neuromuscular Clinics since 2005.
Clinical Psychologist at the ATTRv Amyloidosis Clinic since 2005 (Research, Psychological Assessment and Psychological Monitoring for patients, asymptomatic carriers and families).
Clinical Psychologist at Center for Predictive and Preventive Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto, November 1999 – December 2004 (Research, psychological assessment and psychological follow-up in situations of Pre-Symptomatic Test and Pre-Natal Diagnosis in Machado-Joseph Disease and other Hereditary Ataxias, in Huntington’s Disease and in Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy).

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