Marina Silveira, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)Cards
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Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Biography
Marina received her M.D. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, followed by internship, residency and fellowships in gastroenterology and hepatology as well as transplant hepatology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Her clinical and research interests are in autoimmune liver diseases and general hepatology. Specifically, she treats patients with autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis at her liver clinic. She is developing clinical trials, translational research projects, and outcome studies to improve the treatment and multidisciplinary management of patient with chronic cholestatic liver diseases.
Appointments
Digestive Diseases
Associate Professor on TermPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Disease Program
- Digestive Diseases
- Internal Medicine
- Yale Medicine
Education & Training
- Advanced Liver Fellow
- Mayo Clinic (2010)
- Fellow
- Mayo Clinic (2009)
- Resident
- Mayo Clinic (2006)
- Intern
- Mayo Clinic (2004)
- MD
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2002)
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Clinical Care
Overview
Marina Silveira, MD, is a physician who specializes in treating general and autoimmune liver diseases.
Autoimmune liver diseases, which are rare, occur when the body’s immune system damages the liver. Scientists are not sure why this occurs, though heredity and environmental factors may lead to the disease, which can be serious and even fatal.
Dr. Silveira also works with patients suffering from primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), a liver disease in which bile ducts are damaged and sometimes destroyed. Bile ducts are crucial to digestion, both in the absorption of substances like vitamins and in the expulsion of toxins.
Like other liver diseases, PBC causes fatigue, which is not addressed by some of the medications successful in treating the disease. Dr. Silveira has been involved in research studying the effects of mindfulness training on fatigue and stress in patients with PBC and other autoimmune liver diseases.
Dr. Silveira’s current research includes studies of medications used to treat liver disease.
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Yale School of Medicine
Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019
New Haven, CT 06520-8019
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