I am a physioterapist and post-doctoral in Internal Medicine in Botucatu Medical School, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. My research interests include but not limited to smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mediators of inflammation, oxidative stress, gene expression, and DNA damage.

I have interests in COPD physiopathology and in the role of inflammatory mediators and oxidative stress, gene expression, and DNA damage in smokers and patients with airflow obstruction.