Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro

I am a medical doctor and a senior scientist, working in the frontier of telemedicine, cardiology, tropical diseases and epidemiology, with a wide network of collaborations around the world. With administrative experience as the Director-General (equivalent to CEO, 2010-2014) in a large university hospital in Brazil, I have been the PI or the Co-PI of several large-scale projects in Chagas disease, cardiovascular epidemiology, telehealth, global health, artificial intelligence and electrocardiology. One of the largest is the Telehealth Network of Minas Gerais, a large network that covers 780 cities in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and performed more than 3 million ECGs since its inception. Im the Multi-PI of the NIH TMRC SaMiTrop São Paulo Minas Tropical Medicine Institute, a cohort study with 2,000 Chagas cardiomyopathy patients in Northern Minas Gerais. In the ELSA-Brasil, a large cohort study of 15 thousand public servants, I am the PI of the ECG Reading Center. I am also the senior advisor of the PROVAR study, a project to recognize and define strategies to tackle rheumatic heart disease in Brazil, with a strong component of tele-echocardiography, supported by first by Verizon Foundation, now by Edwards Foundation. In 2016, we were awarded a grant by the Medtronic Foundation in a project of screening and control of hypertension and diabetes using telehealth tools in a remote region of Minas Gerais (HealthRise Brazil) that led to MRC-UK funded cluster randomized trial on this intervention, the CHArMING - Control of Hypertension and diAbetes in MINas Gerais study . More recently, I became PI of the project Global Burden of Disease in Brazil, 2017-2021, in collaboration with the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington. So, as PI or co-PI on several grants funded by Brazilian and International Research Agencies, I successfully administered several projects (e.g. staffing, mentoring, budget), collaborated with other researchers, and produced high-quality peer-reviewed publications.I am the Head of Research and Innovation of the University Hospital and the project is a deployment of innovative tools and methods we are developing at the Telehealth Center. I have been working as a mentor and supervisor of graduate students and early career faculties: under my supervision, more than 80 students have obtained the degree of master or PhD. These activities of research, innovation and mentoring were awarded by nine national and one international awards, including a Prominence in Research Award granted by the Brazilian Cardiology Society. I am the past-president of the International Society of Electrocardiology (2019-2021) and a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow of the University of Southampton (2017-2012). I am a member of the WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics and of the World Heart Federation Neglected Cardiac Disease Expert Group. I am an Associate Editor at BMJ Heart since 2012 and a Section Editor at Journal of Electrocardiology since 2017. I published near 500 papers in the last 15 years and my h-factor (Google Scholar is 89). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)