Afonso Ribeiro, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Miami-based Florida Physician Services.
Dr. Ribeiro received his medical degree from the Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
He completed his internal medicine residencies at the Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro and at the University of Miami (Fla.) School of Medicine.
He completed a hepatology fellowship at the University of Miami School of Medicine, a gastroenterology fellowship at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Jacksonville, Fla., and Rochester, Minn., and an endoscopy fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada.
In 2012, Dr. Ribeiro won the Zubrod Clincal Translational Research Award with his mentor, Yaxia Zhang, MD, for their research detecting chromosomal abnormalities in pancreatic cancer.
He is board-certified in gastroenterology.