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Aldo Peixoto, MD

Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)
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Vice Chair for Quality & Safety, Department of Internal Medicine

Clinical Chief, Section of Nephrology

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Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)

Vice Chair for Quality & Safety, Department of Internal Medicine; Clinical Chief, Section of Nephrology

Biography

Dr. Peixoto is Professor of Medicine in the Section of Nephrology at the Yale School of Medicine. He is also Vice Chair for Quality & Safety (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, cardiovascular autonomic disorders, and in general consultative nephrology and hypertension. He is a founding member of the Hypertension Program at the YNHH Heart and Vascular Center.

As a teacher, he has had a longstanding presence in the school and department, having received several teaching awards from the medical school, the Internal Medicine residency training program, and the CT Chapter of the American College of Physicians. His awards include the Asghar Rastegar Award in 2000 and 2008, the Bohmfalk Teaching Prize in the Basic Sciences in 2008, the Francis G. Blake Award in 2010, and the George Thornton Award in 2017. He has mentored more than 30 medical students, residents and renal fellows in their research activities.

As a researcher, his work has focused on hypertension in kidney disease and strategies for the evaluation and management of hypertension. His current work focuses on practice patterns and outcomes of acute severe hypertension in hospitalized patients. Other interests include hemodynamic phenotyping in hypertension, arterial mechanics in hypertension and kidney disease, and a role as site PI in industry-sponsored studies in CKD, hypertension and neurogenic orthostatic hypotension.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Nephrology, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Kidney International and the Brazilian Journal of Nephrology.

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Education & Training

Fellowship
Yale University School of Medicine (1998)
Residency
University of Connecticut Health Center (1996)
Internship
University of Connecticut (1993)
MD
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1992)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Antihypertensive Agents; Hemodynamic Monitoring; Hemodynamics; Hypertension; Hypotension, Orthostatic; Reproducibility of Results; Vascular Stiffness

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Aldo Peixoto's published research.

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Fellow of the American Heart Association

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    George F. Thornton Teaching Award

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    Masters of Arts (Privatim)

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    Francis Gilman Blake Teaching Award

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    Fellow of the American Society of Hypertension

Clinical Care

Overview

Aldo Peixoto, MD, is the chief of nephrology at Yale Medicine. He specializes in resistant and secondary forms of hypertension, cardiovascular dysautonomia (an autonomic nervous system disorder) and in general consultative nephrology and hypertension.

Dr. Peixoto received his medical degree from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil in 1992. He was a medical resident and chief medical resident at the University of Connecticut Health Center from 1992 to 1996 and later completed a nephrology fellowship at Yale University. In 1998, he joined Yale Medicine as a full-time faculty member.

As a clinician, Dr. Peixoto believes in letting his patients share in the decision-making process. “It’s not about what I want the patient to do. It’s about what the two of us can agree on that is important for the patient and then moving forward as a team,” he says. In order to accomplish this, Dr. Peixoto tries to understand patients’ preferences early on—whether it’s certain types of medication or if their lifestyle prevents them from accessing certain treatments. This type of information is particularly important in diseases where there is not enough scientific research to make a strong recommendation and there is some flexibility in treatment options, says Dr. Peixoto.

In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Peixoto conducts research on how blood pressure, the vascular system, and kidney disease affect each other. At the Yale School of Medicine, he is a professor of medicine (nephrology).

Clinical Specialties

Nephrology

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Board Certifications

  • Nephrology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Latest Certification Date
    2008
    Original Certification Date
    1998
  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Latest Certification Date
    2008
    Original Certification Date
    1995

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