Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Jr

Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Jr is a Neurosurgeon graduated from the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo, (FMRP-USP), Brazil in 1983, where he also completed his training in neurosurgery (1987), and obtained his master's (1993) and doctorate degrees (1998). In 1992, he did a fellowship for 6 months at the Centre Medico-Chirugical Foch in Paris, and from 1998 to 1999 he did a post-doctoral internship at the Brain Tumour Research Centre of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He became a professor at FMRP-USP in 1996 at the Department of Surgery and Anatomy, and since August 2023, he has been appointed as Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FM-USP) in the Division of Neurosurgery of the Department of Neurology, in addition to clinical activities as the Head of the Neurosurgery Service at the Hospital das Clínicas of São Paulo (HC-FMUSP). He is also Chief of a Neurosurgery Research Laboratory (LIM62) at FM-USP.His neurosurgical activities have been focused on the surgical treatment of central nervous system tumors and the surgical treatment of drug resistant epilepsy, in addition to general neurosurgery. According to the SCOPUS platform in December 2023, his scientific production includes 219 publications, 31,104 citations, and an h-index of 62. He has participated in various international research consortia such as MAGIC for the study of Medulloblastomas, THE CANCER GENOME ATLAS RESEARCH NETWORK for the genetic study of tumors, including gliomas, and THE INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM ON MENINGIOMAS for the study of Meningiomas.He has held academic administrative positions such as Clinical Director of the Hospital das Clínicas of FMRP-USP, President of the Graduate Committee of FMRP-USP, Director of FMRP-USP, Vice-Provost for Graduate Studies at USP, and since January 25, 2022, he has been the President of the University of São Paulo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)