Ferreira de Almeida e Borges, Valéria Ferreira

Valéria Ferreira de Almeida e Borges graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) (1997). She completed her residency in Gastroenterology at the same institution in 2001. Since 2004, she has been working as a physician in the Digestive System Unit at the Clinical Hospital of UFU as a preceptor for the medical residency program and coordinating the gastro-hepatology outpatient clinic. She is a European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL) member. Valéria obtained certifications from the Brazilian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SOBED) (2005), the Brazilian Federation of Gastroenterology (FBG) (2008), and the Brazilian Society of Hepatology (SBH) (2009). She earned a Master's in Health Sciences from UFU in 2010. She contributed to medical education as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM) (2015) and at UFU (2015 to 2017). She has been a member of the Ethics Research Bureau at UFU since 2019. From 2017 to 2021, as the principal investigator at the Eurolatino Medical Research Center, Valéria led international multicenter studies. Since 2021, she has also worked as a reviewer for the Revista Médica de Minas Gerais (ScholarOne Manuscripts by Clarivate). She is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Medicine and Health at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), focusing on COVID-19-associated cholangiopathy, with an expected completion date in 2025.