Local Organizing Committee

Full Professor and Current the President/Rector of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ (2019-2023)
President of the International Cooperation Group of Brazilian Universities (GCUB)
Regional vice-president of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE)
Vice-president of the Regional Conference of Rectors of the Latin-American Universities (CRULA)
Representative of Latin America on the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities
President of Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement - Brazil

Head of the Endocrinology Service – State Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology Luiz Capriglione (IEDE) Graduated in medicine from Universidade Federal Fluminense in 2001, experience in internal Medicine with emphasis on Endocrinology.
Master's degree in endocrinology and MBA in hospital management.

Head of the Endocrinology Service - Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Associate professor of the endocrine post graduate Program of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Productivity fellow - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
President of the SBEM Thyroid Department (2021-2022)

Attending physitian and clinical research of Instituto Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (INCA)
Associate professor of the endocrine post graduate Program of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Board of directors of the Latin American Thyroid Society
Board of directors of the Thyroid Department of the Brazilian Society of endocrinology and metabolism (SBEM)

Mario Vaisman , MD, PhD - Full Professor of Endocrinology - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Consultant in laboratory medicine. Diagnóstico das Américas- DASA
Researcher in endocrinology/thyroid diseases.

Professor of Medicine at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

Attending physitian of Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Master's degree in endocrinology - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Consultant in laboratory medicine - Fleury group, Brazil

Graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Residency and postgraduate studies in endocrinology: State Institute of Endocrinology and Metabology (IEDE)/ PUC RJ
Endocrinology specialist Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology (SBEM)
Master's Degree in Endocrinology UFRJ
PhD in Radiology/Nuclear Medicine UFRJ
Supervisor of the oncological endocrinology area INCa/MS
Responsible for treatment with radioactive iodine (I131) INCa/MS

Graduated in Pharmacy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,Master of Science (Cell Biology) from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Doctor of Science (Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Post-Doctorate in Neuroendocrinology from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry.
It is currently Associate Professor III of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Permanent Advisor of the Postgraduate Program in Endocrinology at the Faculty of Medicine and the Postgraduate Program in Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry at the University's Institute of Biomedical Sciences Federal of Rio de Janeiro and Visiting Researcher of Cancer Signalling & Metabolism, i3S- Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Associate Professor of Physiology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro;
Researcher at the Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology of the Biology Institute. Research focus: diseases associated with development (The DOHaD Concept).
Degree in Biology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1994); master’s degree (1997) and doctorate (2001), both from the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
She has experience in the areas of Physiology and Nutrition, working mainly on the following topics: programming, metabolic syndrome, early weaning, malnutrition, overnutrition, xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors.

Tania Ortiga is a Full Professor at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, and P.I. of the Laboratory of Translational Endocrinology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil. She holds a PhD (2000) in Physiology at UFRJ and in 2005, completed 3 years of postdoctoral training at the Department of Endocrinology of The University of Chicago. From 2006 to 2009 she was a Visiting Researcher at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Throughout this period, she investigated the mechanism of action of thyroid hormones with an emphasis on the development of transgenic animals using the model of resistance to thyroid hormones syndrome, having published more than 50 papers in this area. For the last 10 years she also dedicated her attention to reproductive and pregnancy research, having become, in 2013, one of the first grantees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Brazil- investigating the basis of Drug transport and human prematurity. She participates intensely in the training of new researchers, having supervised more than 30 postgraduate students. Abstracts presented by the graduate students under her guidance received more than 15 Young Researcher awards in Brazilian and International meetings. Tania is a member of several editorial boards of many high-impact journals such as: Thyroid, Frontiers in Endocrinology, Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Reproductive Sciences and the JBRA Assisted Reproduction. Tania was associate editor of Thyroid journal for 10 years. Tania participates in several scientific societies such as SRI, Endo Society, American Thyroid Society, Latin America Thyroid Society, Brazilian Society of Physiology. She received Young Researcher Award from the Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS). Dr Ortiga also obtained the title of “Scientist of Our State” given by Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation to support research in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). Furthermore, Tânia is researcher level 1 at National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the main federal research funding body in Brazil.

Assistant Professor - Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrine Unit – Medical School and Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vice-president of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology of Rio de Janeiro (SBEM-RJ)
Vice President of the Adrenal and Hypertension Department of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism