Paulo Roberto Soltoski

Graduated from Medical School in 1988 at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Parana, Brazil. Completed General Surgery training in New Jersey from 1992 to 1997 and Thoracic Surgery Training from 1997 to 1999. US and Brazil Board Certified in both General and Thoracic Surgery. Brazilian Board Certification in Intensive Care Medicine. Obtained a Master's degree in Surgery in 2008, became Assistant professor of Surgery in 2014 and since them has been performing both adult cardiac and general thoracic surgery in academic and private institutions in Curitiba Former coordinator of the Cardiac Surgery Service of the Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade Federal do Parana, and director of the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Universitário Evangelico Mackenzie em Curitiba. Currently full time Cardiac Surgeon at the Western New York Buffalo Veterans Administration Hospital( Buffalo VA). Major interests are tracheal surgery and adult cardiac surgery (Texto informado pelo autor)