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Silvia Titan M. Titan, M.D., Ph.D.

  1. Nephrologist

Location

  1. Rochester, Minnesota

Languages

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Dr. Silvia Titan is a nephrologist and physician-scientist, senior associate consultant in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, since 2022. Her practice and research are focused on chronic kidney disease and glomerulonephritis, with the use of clinical and epidemiological studies to investigate risks factors, biomarkers, and determinants of CKD progression and outcomes.

Dr. Titan attended medical school at Sao Paulo University in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she also completed training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. In 2009, she obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences at Sao Paulo University, Brazil. She moved to the US in 2016 for a post-doc fellowship at MGH, Boston, and completed a (second) Nephrology Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center, Boston.

She is the principal investigator of the Progredir Study, a cohort of people with CKD in Brazil. She was recently awarded the "Mary Kathryn and Michael B. Panitch Career Development Award in Hypertension Research Honoring Gary Schwartz, M.D." to investigate genetic determinants of CKD.

  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • IgA nephropathy
  • Alport syndrome
  • FSGS
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  1. 2022
    FellowshipTufts Medical Center
  2. 2017
    Post Doctoral Research - Post doctoral research fellow at the Thadhani Laboratory, Nephrology DivisionMassachusetts General Hospital
  3. 2009
    PhD - PhD in NephrologySao Paulo University Medical School
  4. 2004
    FellowshipSao Paulo University Medical School
  5. 2002
    ResidencySao Paulo University Medical School
  6. 1999
    Medical SchoolSao Paulo University Medical School

Awards and honors

  1. 2016
    International Post-Doctoral Scholarship, FAPESP 2015/25329-0FAPESP
  2. 2006
    Ph.D. Scholarship, CNPqConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
  3. 1998
    Research Fellowship Scholarship, Clinical Gerontology UnitAddenbrooke's Hospital
  4. 1995
    Scientific Initiation Scholarship, FAPESPFAPESP

Professional memberships

  1. 2013 - present
    MemberAmerican Society of Nephrology
  2. 2008 - 2016
    MemberBrazilian Society of Nephrology

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