Rate My Professor Lucia Andrade

Lucia Andrade is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Nephrology within the Department of Internal Medicine at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. She earned her medical degree from the Universidade de São Paulo in 1988. She completed her medical residency in Nephrology at the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo from 1989 to 1992. Andrade obtained her doctorate in Nephrology from the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo in 1998, with a thesis titled “A hipercolesterolemia como fator agravante da nefrotoxicidade do contraste radiológico: papel protetor da L-arginina,” supervised by Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Seguro. She pursued postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 1998 to 2000, supported by a FAPESP fellowship. In 2010, she received the title of Livre-Docente in Nephrology from the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, with work on “Injúria renal aguda e crônica: fisiopatologia e fatores de proteção.”