Dr. Carvalho is a Cardiologist, Clinician Educator and Scientist at the University of Toronto. She works at the Toronto Rehabilitation (TR), Rumsey Cardiac Rehab, providing primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation. Her special interests include women's cardiovascular health, cardiometabolic health, and education.
After completing Cardiology training in Brazil, she pursued further studies in arterial hypertension at UAB in the USA. Back in Brazil, she obtained a PhD after exploring the effects of sleep apnea on blood pressure, glucose and lipids. Since then, she has been an investigator in more than 25 multicenter, international, randomized clinical trials on hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, tobacco smoking, infection, atrial fibrillation, acute coronary syndrome, antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy, anxiety, and coronary artery disease. She has served as a member of Central Endpoint Adjudication committees. Since 2015, Toronto has been her home, when she started a post-doctorate fellowship at UHN to further analyze the impact of sleep apnea on the cardiovascular system.
Since earning a Master of Science in Community Health (Health Practitioner Teacher Education) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in 2020, Dr. Carvalho has become passionate about education. During her fellowship in Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (2018-2022), she had the opportunity to leverage education for healthcare providers, people with lived experience and anyone interested in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation.
Her academic goals include expanding research, education and advocacy in cardiovascular prevention and women's cardiovascular health, ultimately enhancing care in Canada and internationally.
