Professional Bio
Joao de Andrade, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Interim Director of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Lung Institute.
Dr. de Andrade was born and educated in Brazil. He earned his medical degree at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre. He went on to complete a residency in internal medicine at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (UFRGS), where he also served as chief medical resident. He came to the United States in 1994 and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he became interested in critical care research and entered a fellowship program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB).
Dr. de Andrade joined the UAB faculty in 2000, advancing to the rank of Professor of Medicine with tenure. In 2013 he was appointed Director of the Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program. During his tenure at UAB, he became involved in IPF clinical research shortly after the first guidelines for the diagnosis and management of IPF were published. He established the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at UAB. Further, he served as a site PI for the IPFnet.
Dr. de Andrade’s academic career has focused on creating an infrastructure to support clinical and translational research in interstitial lung disease and on developing strategies for managing this patient population.
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Education
MD - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 1990
Residency - Internal Medicine - Jackson Memorial Hospital University Miami, 1997
Fellowship - Clinical Research - University of Alabama, 2002
Contact
Email
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2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307