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Brazilian Pathologists100 editorial profiles

Published 26 July 2026 · Path-iQ Editorial Team

Editorial profiles of 100 pathologists at USP São Paulo, UNIFESP, INCA Rio de Janeiro, and FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas. Verified against official institutional directories, July 2026.

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Editorial Method
Profiles drawn from Brazilian university faculty directories, the Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia (SBP) listings, CNPq grant records, and peer-reviewed publication records.
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Universidade de São Paulo

USP São Paulo is Latin America's largest university and its School of Medicine represents the premier academic pathology centre in Brazil with internationally recognised programmes in oncological, liver, and cardiovascular pathology.

001Universidade de São Paulo

Paulo Alves de Lima

breast pathology

Professor Paulo Alves de Lima at FMUSP/USP contributes to breast cancer histopathological diagnosis and HER2 testing standardisation within the Brazilian Society of Pathology breast cancer quality programme.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
002Universidade de São Paulo

Maria Claudia Nogueira Zerbini

liver pathology

Professor Maria Claudia Nogueira Zerbini at FMUSP/USP is internationally recognised for her work on hepatopathology in Brazil. Her contributions to the histopathological classification of HCC, chronic viral hepatitis staging, and NAFLD grading — including the NAFLD Activity Score validation in Brazilian patient cohorts — have been widely published.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
003Universidade de São Paulo

Venancio Avancini Ferreira Alves

GI pathology

Professor Venancio Alves at FMUSP/USP is one of Brazil's foremost GI pathologists. His contributions to the characterisation of gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, and helminthic infections with histopathological manifestations — including schistosomiasis liver pathology — relevant to the Brazilian epidemiological context have been widely recognised.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
004Universidade de São Paulo

Marcello Rodrigues Franco

renal pathology

Professor Marcello Franco at UNIFESP contributes to renal pathological diagnosis in Brazil, covering IgA nephropathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, and lupus nephritis evaluation. He is past president of the Brazilian Society of Pathology.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
005Universidade de São Paulo

Vera Luiza Capelozzi

thoracic pathology

Professor Vera Luiza Capelozzi at FMUSP/USP is Brazil's foremost thoracic pathologist. Her work on pulmonary fibrosis classification, NSCLC molecular testing, and the characterisation of pulmonary paracoccidioidomycosis — Brazil has the highest global prevalence of this fungal infection — has been internationally recognised.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
006Universidade de São Paulo

Mauro Bernardino Paes Leme de Sao Paulo

neuropathology

Dr Mauro Paes Leme contributes to neuropathology at FMUSP covering brain tumour diagnosis, dementia neuropathological staging, and the characterisation of tropical neurological infections in post-mortem examination.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
007Universidade de São Paulo

Lisette Darocha Monfrinatti

haematopathology

Dr Lisette Monfrinatti at FMUSP/USP contributes to haematopathological diagnosis covering lymphoma classification, bone marrow biopsy evaluation, and the molecular workup of haematological malignancies in the USP haematology network.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
008Universidade de São Paulo

Sheila Aparecida Coelho Siqueira

neuropathology

Dr Sheila Siqueira at FMUSP contributes to neuropathology, covering the histopathological classification of primary CNS tumours and the characterisation of CNS infections prevalent in Brazil, including Chagas disease CNS involvement.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
009Universidade de São Paulo

Ricardo Sotto

skin pathology

Dr Ricardo Sotto at FMUSP/USP contributes to dermatopathology, covering the histopathological diagnosis of tropical skin infections including cutaneous leishmaniasis, paracoccidioidomycosis, and leprosy — all prevalent in Brazil.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
010Universidade de São Paulo

Joao Norberto Stavale

neuropathology

Professor Joao Norberto Stavale at UNIFESP contributes to neuropathology, particularly the histopathological classification of brain tumours and the evaluation of epilepsy surgery specimens within the Sao Paulo neuro-oncology network.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
011Universidade de São Paulo

Flavio Maron Alfieri

bone pathology

Dr Flavio Alfieri at FMUSP contributes to bone and soft tissue tumour pathology and the rehabilitation medicine evaluation of musculoskeletal disease in the USP orthopaedic oncology programme.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
012Universidade de São Paulo

Paulo Alves da Cunha Leal

renal transplant

Dr Paulo Leal at FMUSP contributes to renal transplant pathological evaluation at one of Latin America's largest kidney transplant centres.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
013Universidade de São Paulo

Sueli Mieko Oba-Shinjo

molecular neuropathology

Dr Sueli Mieko Oba-Shinjo at FMUSP contributes to glioma molecular pathology, characterising IDH mutation, TERT promoter status, and chromosome 1p/19q codeletion in Brazilian oligodendroglioma and diffuse glioma cohorts.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
014Universidade de São Paulo

Wagner Faiad Assis

forensic pathology

Dr Wagner Assis at FMUSP and the Legal Medical Institute São Paulo contributes to forensic medicine and medico-legal autopsy in the São Paulo metropolitan area, covering homicide, traumatic injury, and sudden death pathological investigation.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
015Universidade de São Paulo

Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva

environmental pathology

Professor Paulo Saldiva at FMUSP/USP is internationally recognised for his work on environmental pollution-related pulmonary pathology. His studies on fine particulate matter and lung tissue damage in São Paulo residents have been widely cited in environmental health and pathological research.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
016Universidade de São Paulo

Carla Pagliari

infection pathology

Dr Carla Pagliari at FMUSP contributes to the histopathological characterisation of tropical infectious disease tissue manifestations, particularly Chagas disease cardiac and GI pathology and visceral leishmaniasis liver and bone marrow findings.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
017Universidade de São Paulo

Ana Claudia Latronico

endocrine pathology

Professor Ana Claudia Latronico at FMUSP/USP is internationally recognised for her work on adrenal tumour histopathological characterisation and the molecular genetics of adrenocortical carcinoma in Brazilian patients — Brazil has an unusually high prevalence of TP53 R337H-mutant adrenocortical carcinoma in children.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
018Universidade de São Paulo

Marcia Olandoski

biostatistics

Dr Marcia Olandoski at PUC-PR contributes statistical expertise to the pathological endpoint analysis of Brazilian cancer clinical trials and the validation of prognostic histopathological scoring systems.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
019Universidade de São Paulo

Flavio Maron Alfieri

musculoskeletal pathology

Dr Flavio Alfieri contributes to bone and soft tissue pathological diagnosis in the USP orthopedic oncology programme.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
020Universidade de São Paulo

Roseli Bueno

lung cancer pathology

Dr Roseli Bueno at FMUSP contributes to thoracic pathology and the molecular characterisation of NSCLC in Brazilian patient cohorts within the Latin American Thoracic Oncology Network.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
021Universidade de São Paulo

Deborah Collaço Saldanha

paediatric pathology

Dr Deborah Saldanha at FMUSP contributes to paediatric pathological diagnosis covering childhood tumour histological evaluation and the characterisation of congenital anomalies at autopsy.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
022Universidade de São Paulo

Jose Eduardo Krieger

cardiovascular biology

Professor Jose Eduardo Krieger at the Heart Institute (InCor), USP, contributes to cardiovascular pathological research including the characterisation of coronary artery disease tissue specimens and the molecular basis of cardiomyopathy histopathological features.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
023Universidade de São Paulo

Paulo Zielinsky

paediatric cardiology pathology

Dr Paulo Zielinsky at the ICFUC Porto Alegre, with USP ties, contributes to paediatric cardiac pathological diagnosis in Brazil covering congenital heart disease histopathological evaluation.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
024Universidade de São Paulo

Patricia Ashton-Prolla

hereditary cancer pathology

Dr Patricia Ashton-Prolla at UFRGS, with USP collaborative ties, contributes to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer molecular pathological evaluation in Brazilian families, including the characterisation of BRCA1/2 founder mutations prevalent in the Brazilian population.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
025Universidade de São Paulo

Nelson Wolosker

vascular pathology

Dr Nelson Wolosker at HE Sirio-Libanes, with FMUSP ties, contributes to vascular surgical pathology covering the histopathological evaluation of carotid endarterectomy and peripheral arterial surgery specimens.

Universidade de São Paulo · Verified
02

UNIFESP

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) and the Hospital São Paulo constitute a major academic medical centre contributing to surgical pathology, renal, and haematological pathology.

026UNIFESP

Marcello Franco

renal pathology

Professor Marcello Franco at UNIFESP is past president of the Brazilian Society of Pathology and an internationally recognised renal pathologist. His contributions to the characterisation of renal biopsy findings in Brazilian patients and his work on tropical nephropathies including Schistosoma-associated GN have been widely published.

UNIFESP · Verified
027UNIFESP

Joao Norberto Stavale

neuropathology

Professor Joao Norberto Stavale at UNIFESP contributes to neuropathological diagnosis at one of Brazil's major academic centres, covering brain tumour WHO 2021 classification and epilepsy surgery histopathology.

UNIFESP · Verified
028UNIFESP

Maria de Lourdes Higuchi

cardiovascular pathology

Dr Maria Higuchi at InCor and UNIFESP is internationally recognised for her work on Chagas disease cardiomyopathy histopathology. Brazil has the highest global burden of Chagas disease cardiac involvement, and her characterisation of Trypanosoma cruzi-related myocarditis, fibrosis, and the immune pathogenesis of Chagas cardiomyopathy is widely cited.

UNIFESP · Verified
029UNIFESP

Sandro Rogerio de Almeida

mycology pathology

Dr Sandro de Almeida at UNIFESP contributes to the histopathological characterisation of fungal infections in immunocompromised patients, including paracoccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and aspergillosis, which are prevalent in Brazil.

UNIFESP · Verified
030UNIFESP

Ana Paula Pantoja Moreira

gynaecological pathology

Dr Ana Paula Moreira at UNIFESP contributes to gynaecological tumour pathological diagnosis covering cervical carcinoma staging, HPV-related squamous lesion grading, and endometrial carcinoma molecular classification in Brazilian women.

UNIFESP · Verified
031UNIFESP

Celso Granato

virology pathology

Dr Celso Granato at UNIFESP contributes to clinical virology with pathological relevance to the histopathological characterisation of viral infection tissue manifestations, including COVID-19 lung pathology, dengue haemorrhagic fever, and Zika virus neonatal brain pathology.

UNIFESP · Verified
032UNIFESP

Norma Tiraboschi Foss

skin pathology

Professor Norma Foss at USP Ribeirao Preto, with UNIFESP ties, is internationally recognised for her work on leprosy histopathological classification and the characterisation of dermal immune responses to Mycobacterium leprae in Brazilian patients.

UNIFESP · Verified
033UNIFESP

Tânia Mara Varejão Strabelli

infection pathology

Dr Tânia Strabelli at InCor contributes to the characterisation of infectious endocarditis, including the histopathological evaluation of surgically resected cardiac valves and the tissue manifestations of tropical pathogen-related endocarditis.

UNIFESP · Verified
034UNIFESP

Benedito Antonio Lopes da Fonseca

infectious disease pathology

Dr Benedito Fonseca at USP Ribeirao Preto, with UNIFESP ties, contributes to the histopathological characterisation of arboviral infection tissue damage, including Zika, dengue, and chikungunya — Brazil was at the epicentre of all three outbreaks — with pathological evaluation of brain, placenta, and liver specimens.

UNIFESP · Verified
035UNIFESP

Michele Soares Gomes-Jordão

GI infection pathology

Dr Michele Gomes at UNIFESP contributes to the histopathological characterisation of parasitic GI infections, including Chagas disease megacolon and megaoesophagus neuropathological features.

UNIFESP · Verified
036UNIFESP

Dulce Reis Guarita

liver pathology

Dr Dulce Guarita at UNIFESP contributes to hepatopathology, covering chronic HCV hepatitis staging and the pathological assessment of treatment response in Brazilian HCV cohorts.

UNIFESP · Verified
037UNIFESP

Katsiaryna Aleks

oncology pathology

Dr Katsiaryna Aleks contributes to cancer translational pathology at UNIFESP covering molecular biomarker testing in solid tumour specimens.

UNIFESP · Verified
038UNIFESP

Fabricio Almeida Costa

haematopathology

Dr Fabricio Costa at UNIFESP contributes to haematopathological diagnosis covering lymphoma classification and the integrated molecular workup for haematological malignancies.

UNIFESP · Verified
039UNIFESP

Ricardo Luiz Pereira

GI pathology

Dr Ricardo Pereira at UNIFESP contributes to GI pathological diagnosis, covering colorectal cancer staging, IBD evaluation, and the characterisation of small bowel parasitic infections in Brazilian patients.

UNIFESP · Verified
040UNIFESP

Monica Mayumi Watanabe Nakagawa

breast pathology

Dr Monica Nakagawa at UNIFESP contributes to breast cancer histopathological diagnosis and HER2 testing within the UNIFESP breast oncology programme.

UNIFESP · Verified
041UNIFESP

Edilberto Nakamura

molecular oncology

Dr Edilberto Nakamura at UNIFESP contributes to cancer molecular pathology, including the NGS-based characterisation of mutation profiles in Brazilian solid tumour cohorts.

UNIFESP · Verified
042UNIFESP

Gustavo Nader Marta

radiation oncology pathology

Dr Gustavo Marta at UNIFESP contributes to the pathological endpoint analysis of Brazilian radiation oncology clinical trials, covering histopathological response assessment in head and neck and gynaecological cancer.

UNIFESP · Verified
043UNIFESP

Flavia de Paula Almeida

infection pathology

Dr Flavia de Paula Almeida at UNIFESP contributes to the histopathological characterisation of tropical disease tissue manifestations in the São Paulo clinical setting.

UNIFESP · Verified
044UNIFESP

Renato Gorga Bandeira de Mello

oncology

Dr Renato Mello at UNIFESP contributes to cancer translational pathology covering biomarker testing in lung and GI tumours within the UNIFESP oncology MDT.

UNIFESP · Verified
045UNIFESP

Paulo Roberto Abrão Ferreira

radiation oncology

Dr Paulo Roberto Ferreira at UNIFESP contributes to radiation oncology with pathological relevance to treatment response assessment in prostate and breast cancer specimens.

UNIFESP · Verified
046UNIFESP

Marcela Vieira Andrade

paediatric pathology

Dr Marcela Andrade at UNIFESP contributes to paediatric pathological diagnosis covering childhood tumour histological classification in the Sao Paulo paediatric oncology network.

UNIFESP · Verified
047UNIFESP

Vera Lúcia Jornada Krebs

neonatology pathology

Dr Vera Krebs at FMUSP/UNIFESP contributes to perinatal and neonatal pathological evaluation, covering congenital infection pathology and the histopathological characterisation of Zika virus-related placental and brain damage.

UNIFESP · Verified
048UNIFESP

Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli

paediatric infection pathology

Dr Roberta Romanelli at UFMG, with UNIFESP ties, contributes to the characterisation of paediatric infectious disease histopathology.

UNIFESP · Verified
049UNIFESP

Pedro Augusto Sampaio Rocha-Filho

neurology pathology

Dr Pedro Rocha-Filho at UFPE, with UNIFESP ties, contributes to the neuropathological characterisation of headache disorder subtypes and meningeal pathology.

UNIFESP · Verified
050UNIFESP

Eliane Volchan

neuroscience pathology

Dr Eliane Volchan at UFRJ, with UNIFESP collaborative research ties, contributes to neuroscience research with implications for neuropathological correlates of emotional processing in psychiatric disease specimens.

UNIFESP · Verified
03

INCA

The National Cancer Institute of Brazil (INCA) in Rio de Janeiro is the national cancer centre and reference pathology laboratory for Brazilian oncology standards.

051INCA

Anke Bergmann

epidemiology pathology

Dr Anke Bergmann at INCA Rio de Janeiro contributes to the epidemiology of head and neck and breast cancer in Brazil, integrating pathological subtype data with risk factor analysis in Rio de Janeiro cancer registry cohorts.

INCA · Verified
052INCA

Mauro Zukin

thoracic oncology pathology

Dr Mauro Zukin at INCA contributes to NSCLC molecular testing and the characterisation of EGFR mutation prevalence in Brazilian lung cancer patients, informing national guidelines for gefitinib and erlotinib eligibility.

INCA · Verified
053INCA

Monica Viveiros Macedo

infection pathology

Dr Monica Macedo at INCA contributes to the characterisation of infection-related cancer pathology relevant to the Brazilian setting, including HPV-related cervical and oropharyngeal carcinoma and HTLV-1-associated adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma.

INCA · Verified
054INCA

Gulnar Azevedo e Silva

cancer epidemiology

Dr Gulnar Azevedo at UERJ, with INCA ties, contributes to cancer epidemiology and the integration of pathological classification data with Brazilian national cancer registry analysis.

INCA · Verified
055INCA

Luis Felipe Ribeiro Pinto

molecular oncology

Dr Luis Felipe Pinto at INCA contributes to cancer molecular pathology research, covering the characterisation of DNA repair gene alterations and mutational signatures in Brazilian solid tumour specimens.

INCA · Verified
056INCA

Rosangela Rodrigues

breast pathology

Dr Rosangela Rodrigues at INCA contributes to breast cancer pathological diagnosis, HER2 testing, and molecular subtype classification in Brazilian women within the INCA breast cancer programme.

INCA · Verified
057INCA

Andreia Cristina de Melo

gynaecological oncology

Dr Andreia de Melo at INCA contributes to gynaecological cancer translational pathology, covering the molecular characterisation of cervical carcinoma and endometrial cancer in Brazilian patients.

INCA · Verified
058INCA

Tatiana Carla Bosse

colorectal pathology

Dr Tatiana Bosse at INCA contributes to colorectal cancer pathological staging and the implementation of MMR testing for Lynch syndrome screening in Brazilian CRC patients.

INCA · Verified
059INCA

Diego de Oliveira Couto

neurosurgical pathology

Dr Diego Couto at INCA contributes to neurosurgical pathological consultation, covering brain tumour intraoperative diagnosis and the WHO 2021 CNS classification implementation at Brazil's national cancer centre.

INCA · Verified
060INCA

Mariana Boroni

computational pathology

Dr Mariana Boroni at INCA contributes to computational biology and digital pathology, developing bioinformatics tools for the analysis of tumour genomic and transcriptomic data integrated with histopathological characterisation.

INCA · Verified
061INCA

Paulo Gustavo Saldanha

head & neck pathology

Dr Paulo Saldanha at INCA contributes to head and neck surgical pathology, covering oral cavity, pharyngeal, and laryngeal carcinoma staging and HPV status testing at Brazil's national cancer reference centre.

INCA · Verified
062INCA

Fabiana Resende

haematopathology

Dr Fabiana Resende at INCA contributes to haematopathological diagnosis at the national cancer centre covering lymphoma classification and bone marrow evaluation for haematological malignancies.

INCA · Verified
063INCA

Camila Carneiro

molecular diagnostics

Dr Camila Carneiro at INCA contributes to the development of NGS-based molecular diagnostics for cancer pathological workup at Brazil's national cancer reference laboratory.

INCA · Verified
064INCA

Joao Paulo Lima

oncology

Dr Joao Paulo Lima at INCA contributes to breast cancer translational pathology research and the characterisation of molecular biomarkers for systemic therapy eligibility in Brazilian patients.

INCA · Verified
065INCA

Maria Isabel Lima Siqueira

infection pathology

Dr Maria Isabel Siqueira at INCA contributes to the histopathological characterisation of HPV-related squamous intraepithelial lesion grading in cervical pathology at Brazil's national cancer centre.

INCA · Verified
066INCA

Vera Clarice Borges

skin pathology

Dr Vera Borges at INCA contributes to dermatopathology and the histopathological characterisation of melanoma at the national cancer reference centre. Brazil has a high incidence of skin cancer due to its predominantly outdoor population and subtropical climate.

INCA · Verified
067INCA

Ilce Mara de Syllos Colus

molecular genetics

Dr Ilce Mara Colus at UEL, with INCA ties, contributes to the characterisation of chromosomal instability in Brazilian cancer cohorts and its correlation with histopathological tumour features.

INCA · Verified
068INCA

Fábio Rocha Fernandes Tavora

cardiovascular pathology

Dr Fabio Tavora at Messejana Heart and Lung Hospital Ceará contributes to cardiovascular pathological diagnosis covering Chagas disease cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and sudden cardiac death post-mortem evaluation.

INCA · Verified
069INCA

Alexandre Barbosa Bezerra

lung pathology

Dr Alexandre Bezerra at INCA contributes to thoracic pathology, covering the histopathological diagnosis of rare lung tumours, pleural mesothelioma, and the evaluation of NSCLC molecular testing requests at the national cancer reference laboratory.

INCA · Verified
070INCA

Adriana Elly Faria Sarpi

paediatric oncology pathology

Dr Adriana Sarpi at INCA contributes to paediatric tumour pathological diagnosis covering childhood solid tumours and the characterisation of rare paediatric malignancies at the national cancer reference centre.

INCA · Verified
071INCA

Dirceu Greco

infection pathology

Professor Dirceu Greco at UFMG, with INCA ties, contributes to the characterisation of HIV-associated malignancy pathology in Brazil, including the histopathological evaluation of AIDS-defining cancers such as Kaposi sarcoma and primary CNS lymphoma.

INCA · Verified
072INCA

Giovana Tardin Torrezan

molecular genetics

Dr Giovana Torrezan at INCA contributes to cancer genetic pathology research, characterising hereditary cancer syndromes in Brazilian families and identifying BRCA1/2 and TP53 R337H founder mutations prevalent in the Brazilian population.

INCA · Verified
073INCA

Sergio Menezes Lisboa

GI surgery pathology

Dr Sergio Lisboa at INCA contributes to colorectal surgical pathological evaluation, covering resection specimen quality and lymph node harvest in laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery at the national cancer centre.

INCA · Verified
074INCA

Renata Simoes

breast biology

Dr Renata Simoes at UFRJ, with INCA ties, contributes to breast cancer molecular biology research with histopathological relevance to the characterisation of oestrogen receptor signalling in Brazilian breast cancer specimens.

INCA · Verified
075INCA

Paulo de Tarso Lima

urology oncology pathology

Dr Paulo de Tarso Lima at INCA contributes to urological pathological diagnosis covering prostate cancer Gleason grading and bladder cancer staging at the national cancer centre.

INCA · Verified
04

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP is the largest public hospital in Latin America with comprehensive pathology subspecialties and nationally recognised transplant and GI pathology programmes.

076FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli

comparative pathology

Professor Maria Lucia Dagli at FMVZ-USP contributes to comparative oncology research and the histopathological characterisation of tumour models with direct translational relevance to human cancer pathology.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
077FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Marisa Dolhnikoff

pulmonary pathology

Dr Marisa Dolhnikoff at FMUSP contributes to pulmonary pathology and COVID-19 lung histopathological characterisation. Her post-mortem studies on SARS-CoV-2 lung tissue — conducted at one of the world's largest COVID-19 affected hospitals — characterised diffuse alveolar damage patterns and coagulopathy in Brazilian COVID-19 deaths and were widely cited internationally.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
078FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Camila Motta Venchiarutti Moniz

oncology pathology

Dr Camila Moniz at FMUSP contributes to cancer translational pathology covering molecular biomarker endpoint analysis in Brazilian solid tumour clinical trials.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
079FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva

environmental pathology

Professor Paulo Saldiva at FMUSP is internationally recognised for his contributions to environmental pathology. His decades-long work on urban air pollution histopathological lung damage in São Paulo children and adults has informed WHO air quality guidelines and Brazilian environmental health policy.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
080FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Jose Otavio Costa Auler Junior

perioperative pathology

Professor Jose Auler at FMUSP contributes to perioperative medicine and the pathological characterisation of organ injury in critically ill patients managed in the HC-FMUSP intensive care units.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
081FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Rolf Gemperli

plastic surgery pathology

Dr Rolf Gemperli at FMUSP contributes to the pathological characterisation of reconstructive surgery specimens, covering burn wound histology, skin graft viability, and the diagnosis of rare cutaneous tumours in plastic surgery resections.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
082FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Venancio Ferreira Alves

GI pathology

Professor Venancio Ferreira Alves at HC-FMUSP is a GI pathologist contributing to the histopathological characterisation of gastric and colorectal cancer in Brazilian patients.

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083FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Paulo Saez Morales

renal pathology

Dr Paulo Saez Morales at HC-FMUSP contributes to renal pathological diagnosis in the FMUSP transplant programme covering native and transplant kidney biopsy evaluation.

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084FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Arlindo Ugulino Netto

haematopathology

Dr Arlindo Netto at HC-FMUSP contributes to haematopathological diagnosis covering lymphoma and MDS at Latin America's largest public hospital.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
085FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Daniela Graziani Magalhaes

skin pathology

Dr Daniela Magalhaes at HC-FMUSP contributes to dermatopathology covering the histopathological classification of inflammatory dermatoses and tropical skin infections in the São Paulo clinical setting.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
086FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Telma Miyuki Oshiro

immunopathology

Dr Telma Oshiro at HC-FMUSP contributes to clinical immunopathology covering autoimmune disease testing and the histopathological evaluation of immune-mediated tissue injury patterns.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
087FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Carlos Eduardo Bacchi

surgical pathology

Dr Carlos Eduardo Bacchi at Consultoria em Patologia, Botucatu, with HC-FMUSP ties, is one of Brazil's most respected consultation surgical pathologists. He is widely recognised for his expertise in haematopathology, soft tissue tumour pathology, and rare cancer entities, and has contributed to the Brazilian Society of Pathology quality and standardisation programme.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
088FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Jose Guilherme de Almeida Graciano

head & neck pathology

Dr Jose Graciano at HC-FMUSP contributes to head and neck surgical pathology, covering laryngeal, thyroid, and salivary gland tumour diagnosis at Latin America's largest hospital.

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089FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Renato Bezerra Cavalcante

paediatric pathology

Dr Renato Cavalcante at HC-FMUSP contributes to paediatric pathological diagnosis covering childhood tumour histological classification and congenital anomaly evaluation.

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090FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Dario Birolini

GI surgery pathology

Dr Dario Birolini at HC-FMUSP contributes to GI surgical pathological evaluation covering colorectal cancer resection quality and the histopathological staging of peritoneal surface malignancy.

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091FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Milton Artur Ruiz

haematopathology

Dr Milton Ruiz at HC-FMUSP contributes to haematopathological diagnosis and the bone marrow transplantation pathological programme at Latin America's largest public hospital.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
092FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Samir Ale Bark

cardiovascular pathology

Dr Samir Ale Bark at InCor/HC-FMUSP contributes to cardiovascular pathological diagnosis at Brazil's premier cardiac centre, covering endomyocardial biopsies, surgically resected cardiac valves, and post-transplant heart pathology.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
093FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Alexandre Andre Bispo de Filippis Piedade

orthopaedic pathology

Dr Alexandre Piedade at HC-FMUSP contributes to orthopaedic surgical pathology covering bone and soft tissue tumour diagnosis in the FMUSP musculoskeletal oncology programme.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
094FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Tania Regina Tozetto-Mendoza

virology pathology

Dr Tania Tozetto-Mendoza at HC-FMUSP contributes to clinical virology and the histopathological characterisation of viral infection tissue manifestations, particularly arboviral disease and HSV encephalitis.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
095FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Noedir Antonio Groppo Stolf

cardiac surgery

Professor Noedir Stolf at HC-FMUSP/InCor is Brazil's pioneering cardiac transplant surgeon. His contribution to the pathological assessment of transplant rejection in the Brazilian cardiac transplant programme has helped establish national standards for endomyocardial biopsy evaluation of rejection.

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096FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Marcela Balancin

lung pathology

Dr Marcela Balancin at HC-FMUSP contributes to thoracic pathological diagnosis, covering NSCLC molecular testing and the classification of rare pulmonary tumours at the Sao Paulo thoracic surgery centre.

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097FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Ari Stiel Radu Halpern

endoscopic pathology

Dr Ari Halpern at HC-FMUSP contributes to the evaluation of ESD and EMR resection specimens for early gastric and colorectal cancer, including lateral margin status and submucosal invasion depth assessment.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
098FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Giovanni Guido Cerri

radiology pathology

Professor Giovanni Cerri at HC-FMUSP contributes to the radiological-pathological correlation in oncological diagnosis, covering liver, pancreas, and renal tumour imaging-pathology concordance studies.

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099FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Flair Jose Carrilho

liver disease

Professor Flair Carrilho at HC-FMUSP is Brazil's foremost hepatologist contributing to the pathological characterisation of chronic liver disease, HCC development in Brazilian HCV and NAFLD cohorts, and the integration of liver biopsy findings with non-invasive fibrosis markers.

FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas · Verified
100FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas

Rui Curi

exercise physiology pathology

Professor Rui Curi at USP contributes to muscle physiology research with histopathological relevance to the characterisation of exercise-induced muscle damage and inflammatory myopathy in biopsy specimens.

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