Monique Sartor

Since 2018, Dr. Monique Messaggi Sartor is Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Therapy, EUSES University School, University of Girona-University of Barcelona.

She obtained her degree in Physiotherapy at FEEVALE University – Novo Hamburgo (Brazil) in 2008. Right after, she started working as physiotherapist at Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital in Porto Alegre – Brazil. In 2010 she moved to Barcelona to undergo her post-graduate studies – MsC in Respiratory Medicine at Universitat de Barcelona. Upon completing the MsC, she started her PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu i Fabra, obtaining the title of doctor Cum Laude, during the PhD program she went to London at Kng´s College for 3 months to enhance some skills on respiratory muscle assessment.

Since 8 years, she has been working as a researcher at Rehabilitation Research Group, coordinating projects in different areas of Physiotherapy such as Neurology and Cardiorrespiratory. She is al so mentoring FP at Universitat de Barcelona – UAB on the degree of Physiotherapy. She is working with acute geriatric patients at Hospital del Mar and she is one of the physiotherapist of the Prehabilitation team at Hospital Clinic de Barcelona.

In the past 10 years, he has presented his research work in international conferences and published scientific papers in relevant indexed journals. Some of them are detailed as follows:

1. Marco E, Ramírez Sarmiento AL, Coloma A, Sartor M, Comin-Colet J, Vila J, Enjuanes C, Bruguera J, Escalada F, Gea J, Orozco-Levi M. High-Intensity versus Sham Inspiratory Muscle Training in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: a prospective randomized trial. Eur J Heart Fail. 2013 Aug; 15(8):892-901. IF: 6.52
2. Monique Messaggi-Sartor, Anna Guillen-Solà, Marina Depolo, Esther Duarte, Diego A. Rodríguez, Maria-Camelia Barrera, Esther Barreiro, Ferran Escalada, Mauricio Orozco-Levi, Ester Marco. Inspiratory and Expiratory Muscle Training in subacute stroke: A randomized clinical trial. Neurology; 2015 Aug 18; 85(7):564-72  IF: 8.2
3. Messaggi-Sartor M, Marco E, Martínez-Téllez E, Rodriguez-Fuster A, Palomares C, Chiarella S, Muniesa JM, Orozco-Levi M, Barreiro E, Güell MR. Combined aerobic exercise and high-intensity respiratory muscle training in patients surgically treated for non-small cell lung cancer: a pilot randomized clinical trial. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2019 Feb; 55(1):113-122.
4. Argudo N, Rodó-Pin A, Martínez-Llorens J, Marco E, Visa L, Messaggi-Sartor M, Balañá-Corberó A, Ramón JM, Rodríguez-Chiaradía DA, Grande L, Pera M. Feasibility, tolerability, and effects of exercise-based prehabilitation after neoadjuvant therapy in esophagogastric cancer patients undergoing surgery: an interventional pilot study.Dis Esophagus. 2020 Sep 17:doaa086. doi: 10.1093/dote/doaa086

Barberan-Garcia A, Navarro-Ripoll R, Sánchez-Lorente D, Moisés-Lafuente J, Boada M, Messaggi-Sartor M, González-Vallespí L, Montané-Muntané M, Alsina-Restoy X, Campero B, Lopez-Baamonde M, Romano-Andrioni B, Guzmán R, López A, Arguis MJ, Roca J, Martinez-Palli G. Cost-effectiveness of a technology-supported multimodal prehabilitation program in moderate-to-high risk patients undergoing lung cancer resection: randomized controlled trial protocol. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Mar 12;20(1):207