Joao Alberto Martins De Andrade MD

Dr. de Andrade is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt. He serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Respiratory Institute. Dr. de Andrade was born and educated in Brazil. He earned his medical degree (1990) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre. He went on to complete a residency in internal medicine at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (UFRGS), where he also served as a chief medical resident.

Dr. de Andrade came to the United States in 1994 and completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he became interested in critical care research and entered a fellowship program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB). He joined the UAB faculty in 2000, advancing to the rank of Professor of Medicine (2016) with tenure. In 2013 he was appointed Director of the Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program.

During his tenure at UAB, Dr. de Andrade became involved in IPF clinical research shortly after the first guidelines for the diagnosis and management of IPF were published. He established the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at UAB (2003). Further, he served as a site PI for the IPFnet. His academic career has focused on creating an infrastructure to support clinical and translational research in interstitial lung disease and on developing strategies for managing this patient population.