Rodrigo Athanazio

Dr. Rodrigo Athanazio is an assistant and research physician of the Pulmonology Department at University of São Paulo, developing academic, scientific and assistance activities. His activities include regular assistance of patients with airway diseases in three specialized outpatient clinics of severe asthma, bronchiectasis and adult cystic fibrosis.
Dr. Athanazio earned his degree in Medicine in 2005 from the Medical School of the Federal University of Bahia. He performed his fellowship in Internal Medicine at the Federal University of São Paulo (2006-2008) and, then, Pulmonology at the University of São Paulo (2008-2010). Subsequently, he performed a 2-year specialization in obstructive lung diseases and, then, obtained in 2016 his PhD in Pulmonology at the same institution. This PhD involved a systematic assessment of patients with difficult to control asthma followed in a specialized clinic published in 2016 at BMC Pulmonary Medicine.