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Monica Roberto Gadelha is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine - Endocrinology - at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), currently serving as Deputy Director of Graduate Studies and President of the Graduate Studies and Research Commission in the Health Area - CPGPAS. She is a Titular Member of the National Academy of Medicine - chair number 06 - and was elected as a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2023. She is the coordinator of the Neuroendocrinology Research Center at the Endocrinology Service of the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital (HUCFF) at UFRJ and the head of the Pituitary Adenomas Clinic at HUCFF - UFRJ. She graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine at UFRJ in 1989, where she received the Golden Stethoscope award (first place in her class), completed her medical residency in the Endocrinology and Nutrition Services at HUCFF - UFRJ (1990-1993), and became a specialist in Endocrinology and Metabolism from the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SBEM) in 1992. She holds a Master's (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) in Endocrinology from the Faculty of Medicine at UFRJ, having completed a sandwich Ph.D. with a scholarship granted by CNPq at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) under the supervision of Professor Lawrence Frohman. She is the author of 237 full articles published in scientific journals, an Associate Editor of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, one of the most important journals in the field of Endocrinology, and served as President of the Pituitary Society in 2021-2022. She was the President of the International Committee of SBEM in 2021-2022. Her clinical and translational research focuses on neuroendocrinology, specifically the molecular bases, clinical aspects, and precision medicine of pituitary adenomas (acromegaly, prolactinoma, Cushing's disease, and clinically non-functioning pituitary adenomas).

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