I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine currently working at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I graduated the School of Medicine at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay in 2004. I was involved in clinical practice in Montevideo until December of 2008, when my interest in research drove me to the Mayo Clinic to work as a Research Trainee, Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, and now as an Associate Consultant in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension.

Over the past years, I have published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and more than 60 abstracts in prestigious scientific journals in the field of renal and cardiovascular diseases, 3 book chapters, and served as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals with a worldwide circulation, such as Hypertension and Circulation. I have also presented multiple oral and poster presentations at recognized scientific meetings such as the American Society of Nephrology Renal Week, which is the world’s premier nephrology meeting.

 

I have received several awards including a Post-doctoral Fellowship Award and a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association, the Panitch Career Development Award in Hypertension Research and the “Outstanding Research Fellow Award 2012” from the Department of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, a “Top Oral Abstract by Trainees for the ASN Kidney Week 2012”, and the “Top Scoring abstract in all 16 American Heart Association’s Specialty Conferences in 2012”. 

My research is funded by the NIH, the Mayo Clinic Centers for Regenerative Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science.