Claudio Elias Kater

Graduate in Medicine by Escola Paulista de Medicina at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1971). Master degree (1980) and Ph.D. (1987) in Medicine (Clinical Endocrinology) at Universidade Federal de São Paulo and post-doctorate degree (1989) in Clinical Endocrinology at University of California, San Francisco. Currently is Full Professor of Medicine in the Escola Paulista de Medicina at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPM/UNIFESP), Chief, Adrenal and Hypertension Unit and Director of the Steroids Laboratory of the Endocrine Division at EPM/UNIFESP. Council-at-large at Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabolismo (SBEM) and former editor-in-chief of Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabolismo, the official journal of SBEM. Has long-time experience in Clinical General Medicine and is board-certified in Endocrinology and Pediatric Endocrinology by SBEM. Works mainly (teaching, research and extension) in the areas of: adrenal physiology and pathophysiology (cortex and medulla), hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and endocrine hypertension. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)