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Selected
Publications
View a partial
list of Dr.
Guimarães' publications through
the National Library of
Medicine's PubMed online database.
Dr.
Marcelo
Guimarães started his 6 years of
medical training at the School
of Medicine at
the Federal
University of Rio Grande Sul
in Porto
Alegre, Brazil.
During his time in
medical
school he volunteered at the Hospital Santa Casa, the
Hospital de
Clinicas and
the Hospital Santa Casa, all located in Porto Alegre.
At these
hospitals he spent time in
Intensive Care, Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine,
General Surgery,
Trauma
Surgery, and Radiology. He also taught Human
Anatomy, Clinical
Biochemistry, Clinical Pathology and Clinical
Epidemiology.
In 1994, during his third year of medical school, Dr. Guimarães
traveled
to OxfordMedicalUniversity
(JohnRadcliffeHospital)
in England
for 2 months where he had his first exposure to
minimally invasive
procedures
performed under image guidance. Upon his return to
Brazil
after finishing medical school,
he had post graduate
training that included a General Surgery
residency,
a General and Interventional Radiology residency
(Hospital de
Clínicas in Porto Alegre
and in Recife, Brazil,
respectively)
and
a
two
year
fellowship
at
the Interventional Radiology division at the
Medical
University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.
After 12 years of medical education in Brazil
and in United States,
Dr. Guimarães
developed successful academic (Hospital de Clinicas) and
private
(Hospital Moinhos de Vento) practices in Porto Alegre,
Brazil
where more than 2,000 different Interventional Radiology
procedures
were
performed from 2005-2007. The lack of time to work
simultaneously in
clinical
practice and research made the invitation to return to
work at MUSC
very
attractive.
Dr. Guimarães has been working at the
Division of
Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the Medical
University of
South
Carolina since January 2008. Since then, he has worked
on research
projects and
has been invited to present lectures in several
relevant national
and
international meetings in his field of work. He is
deeply
interested
in peripheral vascular disease and in oncology
procedures. Dr. Guimarães’
strongest interests are in the development of new
Interventional
Radiology
techniques and devices that can increase procedure
safety and in
providing
superior care to his patients.
