UAB Professor and Director of the Division of Nephrology David G. Warnock, MD, announces the recent appointment of Angelo Mario de Mattos, MD, as associate professor.

A native of Brazil, Dr. de Mattos graduated from Colegio Rio de Janeiro and completed his MD degree at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He completed an internal medicine internship and a nephrology residency in Rio de Janeiro, followed by an internal medicine internship and residency at the University of Miami in Florida. Subsequently, he was a nephrology and transplantation fellow at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and he currently is completing a MPH degree in epidemiology and biostatics from Oregon State University and Portland State University.

Dr. de Mattos joins UAB from Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, where he was associate professor of medicine, medical director of the renal-pancreas transplant program, and director of the renal transplantation program at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty in nephrology.

In addition to his numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, presentations, and national and international invited lectures, he received the 1992 American College of Physicians Award for Excellence in Medicine (Florida chapter) and was named 1999 Physician of the Year by the National Kidney Foundation of Oregon and Washington. Dr. de Mattos also is on the review board of the American Journal of Transplantation, where he has served since 2000.

Dr. de Mattos' clinical interest centers on outcomes following kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation, and his current research focuses on cardiovascular risks and events following transplantation.

He is currently accepting patients at The Kirklin Clinic® and may be reached at 934-6145 for academic and administrative calls and at 934-1801 for patient appointments; e-mail demattos@uab.edu.