Graduada em Medicina pela Universidade de Passo Fundo em 2005. É especialista em Medicina de Família e Comunidade tendo concluído a residência médica nessa especialidade no Serviço de Atenção Primária do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) em 2009. Mestrado (2011) e doutorado (2017) em Epidemiologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Especialista em Avaliação de Tecnologias em Saúde pela UFRGS (2015). Concluiu especialização em Desenvolvimento Docente em Ensino Médico na Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) com apoio do Brasil-FAIMER Regional Institute em 2015. Trabalhou como médica de família e comunidade no Sistema Único de Saúde entre 2006 e 2014 e como médica teleconsultora no projeto TelessaúdeRS até 2016. Foi Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre entre 2011 e 2016. Atualmente, é pesquisadora no Department of Health Sciences, Health Technology Assessment section, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam e no Amsterdam Institute for Global Health Development.
I studied Medicine at the University of Passo Fundo in Southern Brazil. After my graduation in 2005, I undertook three years of residency in Family Medicine at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. In 2011, I earned my master?s degree in Epidemiology from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) after studying the reliability and performance of questionnaires used to evaluate adherence to hypertensive treatment. Then, I started working as a faculty at the Department of Collective Health of the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) until 2016. I also used to share my time working as a Family Physician at the Brazilian Public Health System and at the Telemedicine Government Program (TelessaúdeRS) supporting clinical decision making by physicians at primary care. Since August 2016, I am living in Amsterdam with my partner where we were very welcomed. In the meantime, I worked on my Ph.D. thesis, which I successfully defended in June 2017 at the Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology UFGRS. The focus of my thesis was to perform an economic evaluation of Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Strategies at the Public Health System. To flourish on the cost-effectiveness topic, I attended the Economic Evaluation course coordinated by Professor Judith E. Bosmans at Vrije Universiteit in 2016. Currently, I am working as a researcher at the Department of Health Sciences, Health Technology Assessment section, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at Amsterdam Institute for Global Health Development.
