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Holds a degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1988), a residency in Internal Medicine at HUCFF - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1990), a Master's in Internal Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1993), and a PhD in Gastroenterology from the Federal University of São Paulo (2002). Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the D'Or Institute of Research and Education (IDOR). She primarily works on the following topics: viral hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and its complications, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. She is a researcher at CNPq and a Scientist of Our State (CNE-FAPERJ).
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She holds a degree in Medicine from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (1998), a master's degree in Clinical Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2003), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2005). She completed a Research Fellowship at Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) from January 2004 to December 2005. She is currently an associate professor level 2 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a research productivity fellow at CNPQ (level II). She has experience in the field of Medicine, with an emphasis on Endocrinology, primarily working in the area of type 1 diabetes, focusing on the following topics: diabetes mellitus, autoimmunity, treatment, HLA system, and anti-GAD.
I am a clinical rheumatologist with an academic focus. I practice my specialty through actions in teaching, research, outreach, and patient care. My teaching and care practices are primarily carried out through tutoring activities, within the framework of traditional teaching methodologies and active methodologies, such as problem-based learning, as well as through supervision in rheumatology outpatient clinics, particularly for systemic lupus erythematosus and early arthritis. As part of my outreach activities, I have developed educational initiatives for patients, families, and caregivers, using music as a guiding thread for interaction and learning. In my practice as a researcher, I seek to explore the interface between clinical care and public health, where I am particularly drawn to three areas. First, shared decision-making, which aims to develop both hard and soft technologies for involving patients in their health care decisions. This expertise has been supported by a series of publications, oral communications, lectures, grants, and public funding achieved to develop these initiatives. Second, I am interested in researching patient-centered outcomes, whether through primary data collection or by utilizing administrative databases. Third, and also connected to the second item, I focus on studying social disparities and clinical outcomes, that is, investigating the set of interactions involving epidemiology, disease burden (including quality of life and survival), and the quality of care and its potential associations with clinical outcomes. These interests have also been corroborated in academic and technical productions, ongoing projects with this focus, and government funding obtained to develop them, whether through competitive grants or awards, both nationally and internationally.
Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Fluminense (1982), he holds a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Nephrology from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA (1989), a Master's degree in Nephrology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1990), a PhD in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997), and a postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA (1999), University of Ferrara, Italy (2006), and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2010/2011). He is currently a physician, Associate Professor level 4, and head of the Nephrology Service at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has experience in the fields of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, mainly working on the following topics: renal physiology and pathophysiology, renal inflammation and fibrogenesis, and more recently, the mechanisms of accelerated atherosclerosis in chronic kidney disease, obesity, and kidney disease, as well as the role of purinergic receptors in the kidney and atherogenesis.
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