Associate Professor of Rheumatology and former Head of the Rheumatology Unit of the Hospital de Clínicas at the Federal University of Paraná- UFPR- Brazil
Owner and principal investigator of EDUMED- Health Research and Education and EDUMED BIOTECH since 2009. http://www.edumed.med.br
Major research interests include clinical trials, regulatory advances in biologics therapies, spondyloarthritis, new treatment strategies for autoimmune diseases, biologics and biosimilars and translational research in SpA. Dr. Valderilio has authored several publications in the field. He is member of Brazilian Comitee of Psoriatic Arthritis, coordinator of the Brazilian Comitee of Biotechnology at the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology . He is also Member of GRAPPA – Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis – www.grappanetwork.org , EUSTAR – eular scleroderma trials and research group- www.eustar.org and former member of ASAS- Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society
Executive Board Member of Americas Health Foundation- Washington DC. Projects on Pharmacovigillance of biologics and Biosimilars and spondyloarthritis and has been the Coordinator of the Latin American Forum on Biosimilars-FLAB since 2010
Advisory Board Member of Alliance for Safe Biologics Medicines, Washington DC, USA
To see his academic production at Researchgate-https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valderilio_Azevedo