Adrian J. da Silva de Abreu, M.D., Ph.D.

Adrian da Silva-de Abreu, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., earned his medical degree from the Central University of Venezuela, where he received the Luis Razetti Graduation Award (AOA equivalent). As a student, he worked as a bench research assistant and served in multiple national and international leadership roles for medical students' scientific organizations and journals.

Then, Dr. da Silva did the one-year program of Principles and Practice of Clinical Research of Harvard Medical School, earning the Clinical Research Scholar Award. He later completed his master's program in the same field during his clinical residency and fellowship.

As a resident of internal medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, he earned the Alpha Omega Alpha award and The Arnold P. Gold Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. da Silva completed his fellowship of cardiovascular diseases at Ochsner Medical Center, where he started his Ph.D. and became a Senior Lecturer of Medicine at The U.Q. Ochsner Clinical (Medical) School.

Dr. da Silva is an Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic-Rochester and serves on the Editorial Boards of JACC Spanish Edition, JACC Heart Failure, and Current Problems in Cardiology.