Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro é Professor Titular do Departamento de Clínica Médica da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Coordenador da Rede de Telessaúde de Minas Gerais e Vice-Diretor do Centro de Inovação em Inteligência Artificial em Saúde. Pesquisador visitante "Diamond Jubilee" da Universidade de Southampton (2017-2023). Presidente do Grupo de Especialistas em Doenças Cardiovasculares Negligenciadas da World Heart Federation. Foi Presidente da Sociedade Internacional de Eletrocardiologia entre 2019 e 2021 e membro do WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics e do Neglected CVDs Expert Group da World Heart Federation (2021-2022). É Editor Associado da BMJ Heart e do Journal of Electrocardiology. Foi Diretor Técnico do HC/UFMG entre 2006-2010 e Diretor Geral entre 2010-2014, além de Coordenador do Serviço de Cardiologia e Cirurgia Cardiovascular entre 2002-08 e 2016-18 e Coordenador de Pesquisa e Inovação entre 2014 e 2022. Médico, com especialização em Clínica Médica e Cardiologia, concluiu o doutorado em Medicina pela Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG em 1996. Foi Consultor do Secretaria de Atenção à Saúde do Ministério da Saúde de 2004 a 2016. Publicou mais que 500 artigos completos em periódicos especializados e tem fator h=84 pelo Google Scholar. Recebeu diversos prêmios nacionais e o International Health Promotion Award, em Roma, em 2011. É orientador pleno dos programas de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Saúde: Infectologia e Medicina Tropical (nível 6), Saúde Pública (nível 6) e Clínica Médica (nível 5). Coordena os projetos "CODE - Clinical Outcomes in Digital Electrocardiography", "CHArMING - Control of Hypertension and diAbetes in MINas Gerais" e RAISE (The buRden of ChAgas dISEase in the contemporary world). É Co-PI do projeto "Sao Paulo- Minas Gerais Neglected Tropical Disease Research Center for Biomarker" (NIH) e "Global Burden of Disease Brasil", participando também de outros projetos na área de Política de Saúde, Epidemiologia, Cardiologia, Doença de Chagas, Telessaúde, Saúde Digital e Inteligência Artificial.
I am a medical doctor and a senior scientist, working in the frontier of telemedicine, cardiology, tropical diseases and epidemiology, with a wide network of collaborations around the world. With administrative experience as the Director-General (equivalent to CEO, 2010-2014) in a large university hospital in Brazil, I have been the PI or the Co-PI of several large-scale projects in Chagas disease, cardiovascular epidemiology, telehealth, global health, artificial intelligence and electrocardiology. One of the largest is the Telehealth Network of Minas Gerais, a large network that covers 780 cities in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and performed more than 3 million ECGs since its inception. Im the Multi-PI of the NIH TMRC SaMiTrop São Paulo Minas Tropical Medicine Institute, a cohort study with 2,000 Chagas cardiomyopathy patients in Northern Minas Gerais. In the ELSA-Brasil, a large cohort study of 15 thousand public servants, I am the PI of the ECG Reading Center. I am also the senior advisor of the PROVAR study, a project to recognize and define strategies to tackle rheumatic heart disease in Brazil, with a strong component of tele-echocardiography, supported by first by Verizon Foundation, now by Edwards Foundation. In 2016, we were awarded a grant by the Medtronic Foundation in a project of screening and control of hypertension and diabetes using telehealth tools in a remote region of Minas Gerais (HealthRise Brazil) that led to MRC-UK funded cluster randomized trial on this intervention, the CHArMING - Control of Hypertension and diAbetes in MINas Gerais study . More recently, I became PI of the project Global Burden of Disease in Brazil, 2017-2021, in collaboration with the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington. So, as PI or co-PI on several grants funded by Brazilian and International Research Agencies, I successfully administered several projects (e.g. staffing, mentoring, budget), collaborated with other researchers, and produced high-quality peer-reviewed publications.I am the Head of Research and Innovation of the University Hospital and the project is a deployment of innovative tools and methods we are developing at the Telehealth Center. I have been working as a mentor and supervisor of graduate students and early career faculties: under my supervision, more than 80 students have obtained the degree of master or PhD. These activities of research, innovation and mentoring were awarded by nine national and one international awards, including a Prominence in Research Award granted by the Brazilian Cardiology Society. I am the past-president of the International Society of Electrocardiology (2019-2021) and a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow of the University of Southampton (2017-2012). I am a member of the WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics and of the World Heart Federation Neglected Cardiac Disease Expert Group. I am an Associate Editor at BMJ Heart since 2012 and a Section Editor at Journal of Electrocardiology since 2017. I published near 500 papers in the last 15 years and my h-factor (Google Scholar is 76).
