Mauricio Laerte Silva has a Master Degree in Medical Sciences, and in Epidemiology. He attended a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Research in the USA, where his focus was the fetal cardiac function. Nowadays he is completing his Doctorate Course. His research field is on cardiovascular risk factors in diseases like AIDS and others with systemic inflammatory response, analyzing the cardiac and endothelium functions by means of ultrasonography. Dr. Silva served his Presidency of the Pediatric Society of Santa Catarina and concurrently was an effective member of the Scientific Department of Pediatric Cardiology of the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics in 4 periods. Mauricio Laerte Silva has a Master Degree in Medical Sciences, and in Epidemiology. He attended a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Research in the USA, where his focus was the fetal cardiac function. Nowadays he is completing his Doctorate Course. His research field is on cardiovascular risk factors in diseases like AIDS and others with systemic inflammatory response, analyzing the cardiac and endothelium functions by means of ultrasonography. Dr. Silva served his Presidency of the Pediatric Society of Santa Catarina and concurrently was an effective member of the Scientific Department of Pediatric Cardiology of the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics in 4 periods.

 interventional and experimental cardiology .