Dr. Shiota received her MD from Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, in 1992. She completed her medical residency in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at Escola Paulista de Medicina – Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, in 1996. Dr. Shiota finished her doctorate in Endocrinology – Molecular Biology at Escola Paulista de Medicina – Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, in 1999. Since 1996, she worked as an Endocrinologist, and later on joined the Medical Affairs teams in different pharmaceutical companies (Serono, Altana Pharma, Astrazeneca, Actelion, and Sanofi Genzyme) in Brazil and in US. More recently, Dr. Shiota started as a Senior Global Medical Director in Ascendis Pharma, NJ, US, where she focus her work on hypoparathyroidism disease awareness and management.