Suzane K Ono 

Dr. Ono finished her MD degree in 1990 and then went on to complete an Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology residency at the Clinical Hospital from the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine (HCFMUSP). After completing her training, she started the master’s degree in the Gastroenterology Program from the same University. Her dissertation was a comparison of chronic hepatitis B among Caucasian and Asian patients and families.  

She went to Tokyo University where she was awarded her PhD degree in the year 2000 and continued as a post-doc researcher at Tokyo University during one more year. She researched for her doctorate in HBV in vitro models for studies of antiviral resistance and won the “Sheila Sherlock” award from the International Association for the Study of the Liver among others honors and awards.  

Dr. Ono moved to University of São Paulo School of Medicine, became assistant professor in 2002 and associate professor in 2012. 

Since 2004 is the clinical coordinator of the Clinical Hepatology Ambulatory and since 2014 the Institutional coordinator of the Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program at HCFMUSP. She is a member of the HCFMUSP Central Institute Technolgogical Innovation Committee (CITIC) since 2108.  

Today, Dr Ono is a visiting professor at the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology at Emory University through the Fulbright Distinguished chair program.