About
Mariana is a doctor in rehabilitation science from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and KU Leuven. During her PhD she worked with inspiratory muscle training for patients with advanced lung diseases and on the waiting list for lung transplantation.
She completed her master in Adapted Physical Activity in KU Leuven, Belgium. She is a respiratory physiotherapist specialized in Cardiorespiratory Rehabilitation at the Einstein Hospital in São Paulo and has been working providing pulmonary rehabilitation, in private practice, to patients with lung fibrosis and COPD.
She is currently a research fellow at Monash University (postdoctoral position) under Prof Anne Holland. She is the clinical trial manager of the PFOX trial. The PFOX trial investigates the effects of ambulatory oxygen therapy during exercise to patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease across 4 Australian centres and 2 Swedish centres.