Marcelo Ribeiro
Naples,FL
Summary
Physician with over 20 years of experience in Internal and Geriatric Medicine, including extensive training in top university teaching programs. Demonstrated expertise in managing diverse patient populations in high-pressure hospital environments, including ICU and rehabilitation settings. Nearly 15 years as a hospitalist physician, recognized for strong decision-making skills and reliability. Multilingual in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, enhancing communication with a broad patient base.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Hospitalist Physician
NCH Healthcare system
Naples, USA
09.2018 - Current
- Serving as full time hospitalist physician in a 390+ bed community hospital in Naples, Florida.
- Provides cutting-edge care from stable surgical floor patients through step-down complex and very ill individuals in a very fast-paced program with an average 20 encounters per shift, including multiple admissions.
- Great interaction and assistance of multiple subspecialties.
- Working supervising nurse practitioners and physician assistants in some of the encounters.
Hospitalist Physician
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor, USA
10.2012 - Current
- Previously full time employed now serving as per diem hospitalist physician.
- Seeing an average of 15 complex patients, among follow-ups and new admissions in 10 hour shifts and admitting from the emergency department or direct transfers an average of 8 patients in 10 hour shifts.
- Managing, with the assistance of subspecialists, extremely critical care patients in open ICU and CCU beds.
- Supervising and teaching, on a regular basis, medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
- 400+ bed hospital, referral for the northern two-thirds of Maine, that provides leading-edge programs in cancer, surgery, stroke and cardiac care.
Geriatrics Fellowship
University of Miami
Florida, USA
07.2011 - 06.2012
- Cared for elderly patients in various environments, e.g. in-home, nursing home facility, geriatric clinic, and hospice units.
- Provided palliative medicine consultation for multiple services.
- Oversaw individuals with varied, debilitating conditions, such as delirium, dementia, diabetes and stroke.
- Admitted patients to nursing home.
- Performed an average of five geriatric consultations every day while training under geriatric consultation service professional supervision.
- Led weekly interdisciplinary meetings.
- Participated in weekly journal clubs, presenting and discussing recent articles and evidence-based medicine topics.
- Oversaw 10-12 patients every day in a fast-paced, short-term rehabilitation floor, successfully managing medical, psychological, and social needs.
- Worked three months rotation in patient palliative care medicine, participating in hospice unit rounds.
- Ensured elderly safety and effective in-home medical care management.
- Served full day every week in clinic, assisting an average of 12-14 patients a day—managing medical, social, and psychological geriatric issues.
- Demonstrated excellent teaching skills—educating medical students and residents in outpatient clinic, geriatric consultation service, and in-patient rehabilitation unit.
- Led family meetings to address patient care and goals, practicing symptom-focused medicine, including pain management in terminally ill patients.
Internal Medicine Resident
University of Connecticut
Connecticut, USA
06.2008 - 06.2011
- Trained in excellent patient-centered, university-based medical residency program providing 10+ months of ward rotations throughout three different hospitals with diverse patient populations, backgrounds, and pathologies.
- Cared for an average of 10-14 individuals every day, consisting of minor complications to critically ill situations.
- Directly cared for 20 patients on weekends.
- Participated in five months of intense 16-bed ICU rotations as a supervising resident, with extremely complex medical patients.
- Gained experience in treating patients with broad-based medical conditions, including various shocks, mechanical ventilation, running several codes, placing central lines, performing paracentesis, and triaging patients from the ER and from the floor.
- Interacted directly with hospitalists attendings on a consistent basis to promote optimal patient care and team cooperation.
- Led team of medical students and junior residents—balancing staff supervision and autonomy in making medical decisions.
- Participated in daily morning reports and evidence-based ward case discussions and educational rounds.
- University-based medical residency program providing 10+ months of ward rotations throughout three different hospitals.
ICU Attending Physician
Hospital de Clinicas Sao Vicente
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
02.2007 - 06.2008
- Served as attending physician for a ten-bed general hospital Intensive Care Unit, managing extremely critical care patients with a wide-ranging illnesses and emergencies.
- Ten-bed general hospital Intensive Care Unit.
Internal Medicine Resident
Hospital Geral de Nova Iguacu
Nova Iguacu, Brazil
02.2005 - 01.2007
- Exercised exceptional ability to interact with patients, peers, teachers, and supervisors in a fast-paced environment focusing on providing quality patient care and astute assessment of medical conditions.
- Ensured high-level attention to patient care and related responsibilities, successfully interacting with more than 100 patients on average every week.
Internal Medicine Physician
Hospital Estadual Adao Pereira Nunes
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
04.2003 - 01.2005
- Shared emergency room physician responsibilities, including small procedures such as endotracheal intubation and central line access placement.
- Assisted approximately 100 patients per week within diverse age groups.
- Exercised exceptional collaborative and team skills, interacting with multiple physicians in overseeing efficient and trusted care at busy hospital emergency room.
2 Lieutenant Physician
Escola de Material Belico
Brazil, Brazil
02.2002 - 04.2003
- Performed Attending Physician duties for military staff, including various administrative functions encompassing scheduling, epidemic disease control, teaching basic preventive techniques to recruits / general population, organizing immunizations for military staff, and providing health care to local uninsured population.
- Assigned as the Head of Health Division at military base due to strong assessment skills, interpersonal relation capabilities, and natural leadership competency.
Education
Geriatrics Fellowship -
University of Miami
Florida, USA06.2012
Internal Medicine Resident -
University of Connecticut
Connecticut, USA06.2011
Internal Medicine Resident -
Hospital Geral de Nova Iguacu
Nova Iguacu, Brazil01.2007
MD -
University Federal Fluminense School of Medicine
Niteroi, Brazil01.2001
Skills
- Critical care management
- Epic charting
- Geriatric health certification
- Hospital medicine expertise
- Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese
- Effective communication
- Evidence-based medicine
- Time management
Timeline
Hospitalist Physician
NCH Healthcare system
09.2018 - Current
Hospitalist Physician
Eastern Maine Medical Center
10.2012 - Current
Geriatrics Fellowship
University of Miami
07.2011 - 06.2012
Internal Medicine Resident
University of Connecticut
06.2008 - 06.2011
ICU Attending Physician
Hospital de Clinicas Sao Vicente
02.2007 - 06.2008
Internal Medicine Resident
Hospital Geral de Nova Iguacu
02.2005 - 01.2007
Internal Medicine Physician
Hospital Estadual Adao Pereira Nunes
04.2003 - 01.2005
2 Lieutenant Physician
Escola de Material Belico
02.2002 - 04.2003
Geriatrics Fellowship -
University of Miami
Internal Medicine Resident -
University of Connecticut
Internal Medicine Resident -
Hospital Geral de Nova Iguacu
MD -
University Federal Fluminense School of Medicine