Positions and Honors
– Post-doctorate in Virology – University of Dublin, Ireland, 2001.
– PhD degree in Medicine (Neurology) from the University Federal Fluminense (UFF), 1999.
– Master’s degree (MSc) in Medicine (Pediatrics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 1993.
– Fellowship in Neurology at Queen Square Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, England
– Residency in Pediatrics at IPPMG-UFRJ
– Degree in Medicine – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
– Retired Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
– Collaborating Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Maternal and Child Health at UFRJ
– Board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology – Brazilian Society of Pediatrics
Main research areas
- Pediatric Neurology
- Neuromuscular diseases in children and adolescents (Diagnosis and Treatment)
Main publications
1. NARDES, FLÁVIA; ARAÚJO, ALEXANDRA PRUFER DE QUEIROZ CAMPOS; RIBEIRO, MÁRCIA GONÇALVES; BITTAR, MAÍTA; GOMES, HANID FONTES . The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) as a Cognitive Screening Tool in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Annals of Child Neurology, v. 28, p. 57-65, 2020.
2. PEREIRA, Aline Chacon ; ARAÚJO, ALEXANDRA PRUFER DE QUEIROZ CAMPOS ; RIBEIRO, MÁRCIA GONÇALVES . Can simple and low-cost motor function assessments help in the diagnostic suspicion of Duchenne muscular dystrophy? Jornal de Pediatria (Versão em Português), v. 96, p. 503-510, 2020.
3. MENDONÇA, RODRIGO DE HOLANDA MATSUI, CIRO POLIDO, GRAZIELA JORGE SILVA, ANDRÉ MACEDO SERAFIM KULIKOWSKI, LESLIE TORCHIO DIAS, ALEXANDRE ZANARDO, EVELIN ALINE SOLLA, DAVI JORGE FONTOURA GURGEL-GIANNETTI, JULIANA MOURA, ANA CAROLINA MONTEIRO LESSA DE SAMPAIO, GABRIELA PALHARES CAMPOLINA OLIVEIRA, ACARY SOUZA BULLE SOUZA, PAULO VICTOR SGOBBI DE PINTO, WLADIMIR BOCCA VIEIRA DE REZENDE GONÇALVES, EDUARDO AUGUSTO FARIAS, IGOR BRAGA NARDES, FLÁVIA ARAÚJO, ALEXANDRA PRUFER DE QUEIROZ CAMPOS MARQUES, et al.; Intragenic variants in the SMN1 gene determine the clinical phenotype in 5q spinal muscular atrophy. NEUROLOGY GENETICS, v. 6, p. e505, 2020.
4. ARAUJO, ALEXANDRA P. Q. C.; CARVALHO, ALZIRA A. S. DE ; CAVALCANTI, EDUARDO B. U. ; SAUTE, JONAS ALEX M. ; CARVALHO, ELMANO ; FRANÇA JUNIOR, MARCONDES C. ; MARTINEZ, ALBERTO R. M. ; NAVARRO, MONICA DE M. M. ; NUCCI, ANAMARLI ; RESENDE, MARIA BERNADETE D. DE ; GONÇALVES, MARCUS VINICIUS M. ; GURGEL-GIANNETTI, JULIANA ; SCOLA, ROSANA H. ; SOBREIRA, CLÁUDIA F. DA R. ; REED, UMBERTINA C. ; ZANOTELI, EDMAR . Brazilian consensus on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Part 1: diagnosis, steroid therapy and perspectives. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA, v. 75, p. 589-599, 2017.
5. MCDONALD, CRAIG M CAMPBELL, CRAIG TORRICELLI, RICARDO ERAZO FINKEL, RICHARD S FLANIGAN, KEVIN M GOEMANS, NATHALIE HEYDEMANN, PETER KAMINSKA, ANNA KIRSCHNER, JANBERND MUNTONI, FRANCESCO OSORIO, ANDRÉS NASCIMENTO SCHARA, ULRIKE SEJERSEN, THOMAS SHIEH, PERRY B SWEENEY, H LEE TOPALOGLU, HALUK TULINIUS, MÁR VILCHEZ, JUAN J Voit, Thomas WONG, BRENDA ELFRING, GARY KROGER, HANS LUO, XIAOHUI MCINTOSH, JOSEPH ONG, TUYEN , RIEBLING, PETER SOUZA, MARCIO SPIEGEL, ROBERT J PELTZ, STUART W MERCURI, EUGENIO ALFANO, LINDSAY N EAGLE, MICHELLE JAMES, MEREDITH K LOWES, LINDA MAYHEW, ANNA MAZZONE, ELENA S NELSON, LESLIE ROSE, KRISTY J ABDEL-HAMID, HODA Z APKON, SUSAN D BAROHN, RICHARD J BERTINI, ENRICO BLOETZER, CLEMENS DE VAUD, LAUSANNE CANTON BUTTERFIELD, RUSSELL J CHABROL, BRIGITTE CHAE, JONG-HEE JONGNO-GU, DAEHAK-RO COMI, GIACOMI PIETRO DARRAS, BASIL T DASTGIR, JAHANNAZ DESGUERRE, ISABELLE ESCOBAR, RAUL G FINANGER, ERIKA GUGLIERI, MICHELA HUGHES, IMELDA IANNACCONE, SUSAN T JONES, KRISTI J KARACHUNSKI, PETER KUDR, MARTIN LOTZE, TIMOTHY MAH, JEAN K MATHEWS, KATHERINE NEVO, YORAM PARSONS, JULIE PÉRÉON, YANN DE QUEIROZ CAMPOS ARAUJO, ALEXANDRA PRUFER RENFROE, J BEN DE RESENDE, MARIA BERNADETE DUTRA RYAN, MONIQUE SELBY, KATHRYN TENNEKOON, GIHAN VITA, GIUSEPPE ; Ataluren in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (ACT DMD): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. LANCET, v. 390, p. 1489-1498, 2017.