Marcos Antonio Rossi

Marcos Rossi obtained his MD from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo in 1968 and made his academic career in the University of São Paulo until Full Professorship in 1986: Doctor Thesis (PhD/Pathology) in 1970, Lecturer in 1977 and Reader (Associate Professor) in 1981. Dr. Rossi made important and novel contributions in the fields of Cardiovascular Pathology and Tropical Pathology. Professor Rossi has 253 full papers published in international journals and 21 book chapters (until March 2012). According to the Institute for Scientific Information-Citation Index (USA), Professor Rossi is one of the Brazilian Scientists most cited in the world literature in the Area of Pathology and Cardiology. Dr. Rossi quantitative data: Index h: 32; index i10=102; International scientific papers: 253; Book chapters: 21; MSc dissertations: 26; Ph thesis: 26; Number of citations in the international scientific literature: 3879. Since 1979, Professor Rossi is Senior Investigador (1A) of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Research Council). His is Member Titular of the International Academy of Cardiology (IAC). Chairman of Vascular Biology of the IAC. Dr. Rossi's research has been consistently supported by grants from Brazilian agencies such as FAPESP, CNPq, FINEP, FIPEC, FAEPA and Fogarty Grant Program together with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. He has been consultant for these agencies and many others from Brazil and abroad. A very important aspect of Professor Rossi s career is that being a scientist in a developing country, he has devoted much time to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the improvement of high education. Most of his scientific work has been done in Brazil, and allowed the consolidation of Experimental Pathology and Cardiovascular Pathology in his milieu, influencing many laboratories and scientists all over Brazil. Editor-in-Chief of The Open General & Internal Medicine Journal. Member of the Editorial Board of important international journals of the areas of cardiology in the last five years (Journal of Hypertension, The Open Biochemistry Journal, Current Cardiology Reviews, The Open Cardiovascular Medicine, The Open Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis Journal, The Journal of Heart Disease, ISNR Cardiology), cardiovascular pathology (Cardiovascular Pathology), and physiology (Acta Physiologica [formerly Acta Physiologica Scandinavica] as guest Editor in 2008) and Brazilian journals in the areas of tropical medicine (Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo) and morphological sciences (Brazilian Journal o Morphological Sciences). Reviewer for the following journal from abroad in the last five years: Circulation, Cardiovascular Pathology, American Journal of Pathology, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Tropical Medicine & International Health, Histology and Histopathology, Journal of Hypertension, International Journal of Experimental Pathology, BMC Cardiovascular Diseases, Virchows Archiv, Toxicology, Pharmacological Research, Journal of Heart Disease, Investigación Clínica, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, American Journal of Physiology, Stroke, American Journal of Hypertension, Current Cardiology Reviews, Current Hypertension Reviews, Inflammation Research, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Pathology - Research and Practice, Cytotechnology, Microscopy and Analysis, and Pharmaceutical Biology, ISRN Cardiology, Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, Human Pathology, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, Food and Chemical Toxicology. Reviewer for the following journals from Brazil in the last five years: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Brazilian Journal of Biological and Medical Research, Medicina, Brazilian J Morphol Sciences. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)