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Professor Mauro Pontes

Hospital Sao Francisco, Porto Alegre (Brazil)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Dr Mauro Pontes completed medical graduation at the Federal University of Health Sciences, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brasil (1987). He made Medical Residency in Internal Medicine (1990), followed by Medical Residency in Cardiology (1992). Postgraduation includes a Master Degree in Physiology (2001) and a Doctoral Degree in Endocrinology (2009), being the first brazilian cardiologist with a PhD in Endocrinology/Diabetes. He is a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the Federal University of Health Sciences, Porto Alegre (since 2010), and a Practicing Cardiologist at the NPCRS - Clinical Research Center, Rio Grande do Sul. His major clinical/research interests are Cardio-Diabetes and Preventive Cardiology. He is the founder and first president of the Cardio-Diabetes Study Group in the Cardiology Society of Rio Grande do Sul.

Less stringent perioperative glucose control improves outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft in patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

Event: ESC Congress 2020

Topic: Coronary Arteries

Session: Cardiovascular Surgery Potpourri

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Atrial fibrillation increases short-term outcomes and 1-year mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: an analysis of the brazilian multicenter TAVI registry (RIBAC)

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Surgery and intervention in valve disease

Session: Aortic valve disease

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