Rate My Professor Filippo Pinto e Vairo

Filippo Pinto e Vairo, M.D., Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at Mayo Clinic. He holds appointments as Associate Consultant II in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department of Medicine, as well as Associate Consultant II-Research roles in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Clinical Genomics at Mayo Clinic Enterprise. Dr. Pinto e Vairo earned his M.D. from the Federal University of Parana, completed a residency in Medical Genetics at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, obtained a Master’s degree in Medical Sciences: Medicine and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Mayo Clinic.

He is a clinical geneticist whose work centers on lysosomal diseases and precision medicine. His research focuses on developing and implementing novel methodologies to identify genetic variants that cause disease and to functionally validate variant pathogenicity. Dr. Pinto e Vairo is the medical director of the Program for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases in the Center for Individualized Medicine at Mayo Clinic. In this role, he leads efforts to establish genomic clinical services for patients with rare diseases, improve diagnostic yield through multiomic testing and functional studies, and advance translational research in collaboration with multiple divisions and departments. His contributions support improved clinical management and treatment options for patients with undiagnosed conditions.