MD and PhD from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Postdoctoral studies as a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, USA) in ​​translational research of thyroid metabolism. I am the PI in the Research Group Study of Changes in the Metabolism of Thyroid Hormones in Disease. Works with basic/translational and clinical research in the ​​study of the metabolism of thyroid hormones in disease.