Mauricio Laerte Silva
Hospital Infantil Joana de Gusmão-Florianópois, Brazil
Biography
Dr Silva has a Master Degree and a Doctorate Degree in Medical Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and a Master Degree in Epidemiology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He also attended a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Research in the Wayne State University,in Michigan, USA, and in the Georgetown University,in Washington DC,USA, where his focus was the fetal cardiac function, related to infections. His research field is on cardiovascular risk factors in diseases like AIDS and others with systemic inflammatory compromise, analysing mainly the cardiac and endothelium functions by means of ultrasonography.