Clério Francisco de Azevedo Filho

Dr. Clerio Azevedo obtained his medical degree at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, in 1998. He began his internal medicine residency program in 1999 and concluded his clinical cardiology fellowship training in 2002. Since then, he has focused his scientific interests on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography. In 2003 and 2004 he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow under the supervision of Dr. João A. C. Lima at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. At this point his main research interests were on the characterization of acute myocardial infarction by cardiovascular MRI both in experimental and in clinical models. With his expertise in the delayed-enhancement technique and in the assessment of systolic and diastolic regional function using myocardial tagging techniques, he sought to develop new methods to improve the risk stratification of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Upon obtaining his PhD in 2009 at Heart Institute (InCor) of São Paulo University Medical School, Dr. Clerio Azevedo was nominated a permanent professorship at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Director of Cardiology Research at D?Or Institute for Research and Education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Innovative, translational and collaborative research has ever been a pursuit in his academic career.

possui graduação em Medicina pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1998). Atualmente é coordenador do Serviço de Ressonância Magnética e Tomografia Computadorizada Cardiovascular da Clínica de Diagnóstico por Imagem CDPI - DASA/RJ. Obteve o Título de Especialista em Cardiologia pela Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia em 2001 e especializou-se na área de Métodos Avançados de Imagem em Cardiologia no Hospital Johns Hopkins em Baltimore, EUA, no período de 2003-2004. Doutor em Cardiologia pelo Instituto do Coração (InCor) da Faculdade de Madicina da Universidade de São Paulo (2009), atualmente é revisor dos periódicos internacionais Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), JACC Imaging, entre outros. De 2010 a 2015 foi Professor Visitante de Cardiologia e desde 2015 é Professor Adjunto de Cardiologia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.