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Daniel Vasconcelos-Santos

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Member profile details

First name

Daniel

Middle Name or Initial

Vitor

Last name

Vasconcelos-Santos

Degree(s)

MD PhD

Rank/Position/Title

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Chairman

Organization

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Country

Brazil

Information for the Public

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Public Address

Instituto da Visão
Av. Nossa Senhora do Carmo, 90
Belo Horizonte - MG 30330-000
Brazil.

City (For Patients)

Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil

Telephone (For Patients)

+55 31 34318000

Website (For Patients)

www.ivisao.com

Clinical Focus and Interests

Uveitis and other ocular inflammatory disorders
Masquerade syndromes

Accepting New Patients?

Yes

Is a referral required for new patients?

Research Focus and Interests

-Infectious uveitis (mainly toxoplasmosis, tuberculosis, syphilis, fungal), noninfectious uveitis (mainly VKH disease, sympathetic ophthalmia and sarcoidosis), masquerade syndromes (primary vitreoretinal lymphoma) and multimodal imaging of ocular inflammatory conditions.
-Epidemiology of uveitis and clinical trials
-Immunopathology of experimental models of toxoplasmosis, herpes, dengue, malaria and autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)
-Diagnostic molecular biology
-Ophthalmic pathology in general, with emphasis in ocular inflammatory diseases.

Education & Training

Medical School

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Medical School Graduation Date

2001-01-12

Residency

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Residency Completion Date

2003-01-31

Uveitis Fellowship

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2004, Prof. Fernando Orefice
Doheny Eye Institute / USC, 2008-2010, Prof. Narsing A. Rao

Uveitis Fellowship Completion Date

2010-06-30

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