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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