Aldo Jose Peixoto MD, FASN, FASH

Dr. Peixoto is a Professor of Medicine with the Section of Nephrology at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also Associate Chair for Ambulatory Services Operations and Quality (Department of Internal Medicine) and Clinical Chief of the Section of Nephrology.

He received his medical degree from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) in 1992. He was a medical resident and chief medical resident at the University of Connecticut Health Center from 1992-96 and later completed a nephrology fellowship at Yale University, which he joined as a full-time faculty member in 1998. He is certified in both Nephrology (ABIM) and Clinical Hypertension (ASH).

As a clinician, he is primarily interested in resistant and secondary forms of hypertension, and in general consultative nephrology and hypertension.

As a teacher, he was the director of the Renal Pathophysiology Module (second-year course) at the Yale School of Medicine from 2004 to 2013 and the VA site director for the Yale Medicine clerkship from 2007 to 2013. He has received several teaching awards from the medical school and the Internal Medicine residency training program, including the Asghar Rastegar Award in 2000 and 2008, the Bohmfalk Teaching Prize in the Basic Sciences in 2008, and the Francis G. Blake Award in 2010. He has mentored more than 30 medical students, residents and renal fellows in their research activities.

As a researcher, he focuses on hypertension in kidney disease and strategies for the evaluation and management of hypertension. Current interests include the effectiveness of home telemonitored BP for the treatment of hypertension in the elderly, long-term variability of home BP, hemodynamic phenotyping in hypertension, and arterial mechanics in hypertension and kidney disease.