She graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1985), completed a postgraduate program in Neurology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1988), earned a master's degree in Neurology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1994), and obtained a doctorate in Neurology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000). She holds a specialist title in Clinical Neurophysiology from the Brazilian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SNC), recognized by AMB and CREMERJ since 1995. She has been responsible for the neuromuscular diseases department at the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 1989, where she was hired through a competitive examination in 1988, and for the Antônio Rodrigues de Mello Center for the Study of Paramyloidosis since 1989. She was a member of the Technical Chamber in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology of CREMERJ from 1999 to 2010. She served as president of the Rio de Janeiro chapter of the SBNC from 2000 to 2006 and was a member of the examination board for obtaining the SBNC specialist title from 2000 to 2007. She was president of the XIX Brazilian Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology in 2003 (SBNC). She has been a titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology since 1996, where she coordinated the scientific department of neuromuscular diseases from 2004 to 2008. In 2023, she was invited to be a member of the Clinical Protocol and Therapeutic Guidelines Committee (PCDT) for Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy to improve the Unified Health System and the care provided to its users. She was a representative in Brazil of the former European Neurological Society. She has been a member of the American Association of Neuromuscular Diseases and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) since 1998, where she received the financial assistance award from the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology in 2007. She received the award for the best doctoral dissertation in Neurology from the Brazilian Academy of Neurology for the 1999/2000 biennium. Additionally, she received the Best Investigator Award from The European Federation of Neurological Societies in 2011. She was awarded the Investigator Award from the European Federation of Neurological Societies for her presentation on: “Baseline Nutritional Status in Symptomatic Patients in the Transthyretin Amyloidosis Outcomes Survey (THAOS).” She works in the field of electromyography and neuromuscular diseases, with a focus on research lines in Myasthenia Gravis and Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy. She is responsible for the Center for the Study of Amyloidosis (CEPARM), a national reference center in amyloidosis. Within these lines, several multicenter study protocols in collaboration with international partners are being developed, including studies with the drugs tafamidis, ALN-2 (Alnylam), and Ionis 420915. She is part of the scientific committee of THAOS (Transthyretin Outcome Survey) and is currently the elected president of this committee. She has 58 publications in Brazil and 75 abroad, in addition to 9 published book chapters. She has been invited to give over 161 lectures at national and international events. She has participated in 22 thesis committees for doctoral and master's degrees. Dr. Waddington Cruz received the Grand Collar of Merit from the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) in October 2023, awarded to individuals distinguished for their services in favor of the Brazilian population.

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Holds a degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1991), a master's degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1998), a doctorate in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2001), and a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinator of the Tuberculosis Outpatient Clinic at the Thoracic Diseases Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from 2003 to 2013. Education Coordinator of the Thoracic Diseases Institute from 2009 to 2013. Member of the Undergraduate Teaching Council of UFRJ from 2012 to 2014. Member of the Deliberative Council of the Graduate Program in Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of UFRJ (Rating 7) since 2009. Director of the Thoracic Diseases Institute from June 2013 to June 2022. President of the Society of Pulmonology and Tuberculosis of the State of Rio de Janeiro for the 2020-2021 term. Member of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Brazilian Society of Pulmonology and Tuberculosis. Research Director of the Thoracic Diseases Institute from 2022 to 2023. Academic Superintendent of Postgraduate Studies at UFRJ from 2023 to present. Experience in the field of Medicine, with an emphasis on Tuberculosis and Pulmonology, working on respiratory system diseases, with a focus on infections: tuberculosis, non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections, COVID-19, and obstructive sleep apnea; with an emphasis on molecular biology, laboratory and radiological diagnosis of respiratory diseases, pharmacogenetics, clinical trials with drugs and vaccines. H-index = 23.

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PhD in Biomedical Engineering from COPPE (Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduate Studies and Engineering Research) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ. Master's in Public Health from UFRJ - Institute of Studies in Public Health (IESC), focusing on the research line of Development of Statistical, Epidemiological, and Computational Methods in Health (2010). Bachelor's degree in Statistics from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2007). Assistant Professor in the Department of Bromatology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal Fluminense University - UFF. Credentialed in two stricto-sensu graduate programs, one as a permanent faculty member (Pharmaceutical Assistance Administration and Management - Faculty of Pharmacy - UFF - Professional Master's, Level 4) and one as a collaborating faculty member (Internal Medicine - Faculty of Medicine - UFRJ - M/D, Level 7). Also works in the Graduate Program in Applied Sciences to Health Products and in the specialization course in Science of Medicines and Foods, both at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UFF. Coordinator of MultiLab - Multidisciplinary Data Analysis Laboratory in Pharmacy and Public Health (CNPq), awarded by the Basic Research Aid Announcement (APQ1) - FAPERJ 2023. Has experience in managing data from Health Information Systems and large public databases.

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Graduated in Biological Sciences, with a Bachelor’s degree in Genetics (1994), and a Ph.D. in Biophysics (2000), specializing in Immunology from the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He completed postdoctoral training at New York University (2000-2003) and Johns Hopkins University (2003-2006), where he developed projects related to the development of vaccination technologies and the study of the biology of protective T cell responses against pathogens. He has specialized training in T lymphocyte cloning techniques from Hoffman La Roche, Italy (1998), and experience in immunology of infectious diseases, focusing primarily on the following topics: immunoregulation, adaptive immunity, and pathogen-host interaction. From 2006 to 2007, he was part of the Research Associate team at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH, where he developed projects aimed at investigating adaptive immune mechanisms associated with the control of intracellular pathogens. He is a reviewer for national and international journals, an Ad hoc consultant for funding agencies in Brazil and abroad, a member of the organizational committee for the 2015 International Conference on Parasitology in Philadelphia, USA, and a current member of the scientific committee of the II Caparica International Conference on Leishmaniasis, Portugal, October 2020. He has held a Research Productivity Fellowship (CNPq – since 2008; level 1 since 2011), is a Scientist of Our State/RJ (FAPERJ – since 2016), an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a Specialist in Science, Technology, Innovation, and Public Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/FIOCRUZ, where he investigates immunological mechanisms associated with changes in the central and peripheral lymphoid system in infectious diseases and immunodeficiencies.

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