Thiago Junqueira Avelino Da Silva, MD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• NIDUS II Special AD/ADRD Award, NIDUS II Delirium Network, 2023
• William and Judith Borten Junior Investigator Award, American Delirium Society, 2022
• 2021 Best COVID Paper, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2022

Education & Training

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• Certificate Equity in Brain Health University of California, San Francisco 08/2023
• Habilitation (Livre-Docencia) Geriatrics Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) 03/2021
• PhD Medical Sciences Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) 02/2016
• Fellowship Geriatrics Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP 02/2009
• Residency Internal Medicine Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP 02/2007
• MD Medicine Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) 12/2004

Interests

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• Equity
• Prognosis
• Dementia
• Acute care
• Delirium
• Geriatric assessment

Publications (61)

Top publication keywords:
FrailtyMalnutritionHospitalizationGeriatric AssessmentPeptidyl-Dipeptidase ABrazilMortalityGeriatricsHospital MortalityHand StrengthInappropriate PrescribingDeliriumPotentially Inappropriate Medication ListFrail ElderlyDementia

• Predicting posthospitalization falls in Brazilian older adults: External validation of the Carpenter instrument.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2024 Curiati PK, Arruda MDS, Carpenter CR, Morinaga CV, Melo HMA, Avelino-Silva TJ, Aliberti MR
• Gut microbiota disturbances in hospitalized older adults with malnutrition and clinical outcomes.
  Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 2024 Muñoz-Fernandez SS, Garcez FB, Alencar JCG, Bastos AA, Morley JE, Cederholm T, Aprahamian I, de Souza HP, Avelino-Silva TJ, Bindels LB, Ribeiro SML
• Delirium detection tools show varying completion rates and positive score rates when used at scale in routine practice in general hospital settings: A systematic review.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Penfold RS, Squires C, Angus A, Shenkin SD, Ibitoye T, Tieges Z, Neufeld KJ, Avelino-Silva TJ, Davis D, Anand A, Duckworth AD, Guthrie B, MacLullich AMJ
• Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients with preexisting dementia: a large multicenter propensity-matched Brazilian cohort study.
  BMC geriatrics 2024 Bicalho MAC, Aliberti MJR, Delfino-Pereira P, Chagas VS, Rosa PMDS, Pires MC, Ramos LEF, Bezerra AFB, de Castro Feres AB, Dos Reis Gomes AG, Bhering AR, Pessoa BP, Silva CTCAD, Cimini CCR, Suemoto CK,…
• Fairness: from the guts to the brain - a critical examination by Atlantic fellows of the Global Brain Health Institute.
  Frontiers in psychology 2023 Avelino-Silva TJ, Trujillo N, Udeh-Momoh C

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• The Confusion Assessment Method in action: Implementation of a protocol to increase delirium screening and diagnosis.
  Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2023 Avelino-Silva TJ, Bittencourt JAS, Miguel CG, Rozzino TPDC, Vaccari AMH, Barbosa MS, Szlejf C
• The pervasive association between political ideology and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Brazil: an ecologic study.
  BMC public health 2023 Seara-Morais GJ, Avelino-Silva TJ, Couto M, Avelino-Silva VI
• Association Between Gut Microbiota and Delirium in Acutely Ill Older Adults.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2023 Garcez FB, Garcia de Alencar JC, Fernandez SSM, Avelino-Silva VI, Sabino EC, Martins RCR, Franco LAM, Lima Ribeiro SM, Possolo de Souza H, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Unplanned ICU admissions and implications for adverse outcomes in a prospective cohort of older patients admitted through the emergency department.
  Journal of critical care 2023 Machado FP, Aliberti MJR, Silva VBO, Morinaga CV, Avelino-Silva TJ, Curiati PK
• Correction: Development and validation of the MMCD score to predict kidney replacement therapy in COVID-19 patients.
  BMC medicine 2023 de Azevedo Figueiredo F, Ramos LEF, Silva RT, Ponce D, de Carvalho RLR, Schwarzbold AV, de Oliveira Maurílio A, Scotton ALBA, Garbini AF, Farace BL, Garcia BM, da Silva CTCA, Cimini CCR, de Carvalho …
• COVID-19 outcomes in people living with HIV: Peering through the waves.
  Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2023 Sales TLS, Souza-Silva MVR, Delfino-Pereira P, Neves JVB, Sacioto MF, Assis VCM, Duani H, Oliveira NR, Sampaio NDCS, Ramos LEF, Schwarzbold AV, Jorge AO, Scotton ALBA, Castro BM, Silva CTCAD, Ramos CM…
• Finding the Goldilocks zone: Effects of ambient temperature on mortality of hospitalized older adults.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Avelino-Silva TJ, Garcez FB, Campora F, Curiati JAE, Jacob-Filho W
• Brain injury biomarkers do not predict delirium in acutely ill older patients: a prospective cohort study.
  Scientific reports 2023 de Alencar JCG, Garcez FB, Pinto AAS, Silva LOJE, Soler LM, Fernandez SSM, Van Vaisberg V, Gomez Gomez LM, Ribeiro SML, Avelino-Silva TJ, Souza HP
• Prediction of intensive care admission and hospital mortality in COVID-19 patients using demographics and baseline laboratory data.
  Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2023 Avelino-Silva VI, Avelino-Silva TJ, Aliberti MJR, Ferreira JC, Cobello Junior V, Silva KR, Pompeu JE, Antonangelo L, Magri MM, Filho TEPB, Souza HP, Kallás EG, Study Group
• Twelve Months and Counting: Following Clinical Outcomes in Critical COVID-19 Survivors.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023 Taniguchi LU, Aliberti MJR, Dias MB, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Authors reply: The long and winding road of COVID-19 in survivors of hospitalization.
  Journal of internal medicine 2023 Dias MB, Avelino-Silva TJ, Aliberti MJR
• Calculating Route: Functional Trajectories and Long-Term Outcomes in Survivors of Severe COVID-19.
  The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2023 Taniguchi LU, Aliberti MJR, Dias MB, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Transforming the invisible into the visible: disparities in the access to health in LGBT+ older people.
  Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2022 Crenitte MRF, de Melo LR, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Acute Muscle Mass Loss Predicts Long-Term Fatigue, Myalgia, and Health Care Costs in COVID-19 Survivors.
  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022 Gil S, de Oliveira Júnior GN, Sarti FM, Filho WJ, Longobardi I, Turri JAO, Shinjo SK, Ferriolli E, Avelino-Silva TJ, Busse AL, Gualano B, Roschel H
• Aren't you forgetting something? Cognitive screening beyond delirium in the emergency department.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 de Moraes GS, Curiati PK, Avelino-Silva TJ, Morinaga CV, Apolinário D, Suemoto CK, Aliberti MJR
• The long and winding road of COVID-19 in survivors of hospitalisation: Symptoms trajectory and predictors of long COVID.
  Journal of internal medicine 2022 Dias MB, Medeiros APV, de Melo SS, Fonseca CS, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ, Aliberti MJR, CO-FRAIL Study Group
• Advancing cognitive assessment in telemedicine: Validity and reliability of the telephone 10-point cognitive screener.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Rico BMH, Aliberti MJR, da Silva NOT, Busse AL, Suemoto CK, Avelino-Silva TJ, Magaldi RM, Apolinario D
• Development and validation of the MMCD score to predict kidney replacement therapy in COVID-19 patients.
  BMC medicine 2022 Figueiredo FA, Ramos LEF, Silva RT, Ponce D, de Carvalho RLR, Schwarzbold AV, Maurílio AO, Scotton ALBA, Garbini AF, Farace BL, Garcia BM, da Silva CTCA, Cimini CCR, de Carvalho CA, Dias CDS, Silveira…
• Unplanned intensive care unit admission in hospitalized older patients: Association with a geriatric vulnerability score.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Silva VBO, Aliberti MJR, Morinaga CV, Avelino-Silva TJ, Curiati PK
• Reply to: Comment on: Potentially inappropriate medications in older adults visiting a geriatric emergency department.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Martini ID, Aliberti MJR, Avelino-Silva TJ, Curiati PK
• Association of Frailty, Organ Support, and Long-Term Survival in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.
  Critical care explorations 2022 Taniguchi LU, Avelino-Silva TJ, Dias MB, Jacob-Filho W, Aliberti MJR
• The Adjuvanted Recombinant Zoster Vaccine Confers Long-Term Protection Against Herpes Zoster: Interim Results of an Extension Study of the Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trials ZOE-50 and ZOE-70.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2022 Boutry C, Hastie A, Diez-Domingo J, Tinoco JC, Yu CJ, Andrews C, Beytout J, Caso C, Cheng HS, Cheong HJ, Choo EJ, Curiac D, Di Paolo E, Dionne M, Eckermann T, Esen M, Ferguson M, Ghesquiere W, Hwang …
• Potentially inappropriate medications in older adults visiting a geriatric emergency department.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Martini ID, Correa FG, Castelo PR, Morinaga CV, Gil-Junior LA, Aliberti MJR, Curiati PK, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Following COVID-19: Frailty and Disability Transitions in Critical Care Survivors.
  Critical care medicine 2022 Taniguchi LU, Avelino-Silva TJ, Dias MB, Jacob-Filho W, Aliberti MJR, COVID-19 and Frailty (CO-FRAIL) Study Group and EPIdemiology of Critical COVID-19 (EPICCoV) Study Gr
• Depression, delirium, and post-intensive care syndrome.
  International psychogeriatrics 2022 Garcez-Leme LE, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Frailty Admitted to ICU With Coronavirus Disease 2019: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.
  Critical care explorations 2022 Subramaniam A, Anstey C, Curtis JR, Ashwin S, Ponnapa Reddy M, Aliberti MJR, Avelino-Silva TJ, Welch C, Koduri G, Prowle JR, Wan YI, Laurent MR, Marengoni A, Lim JP, Pilcher D, Shekar K
• Palliative care in Hospitalized Middle-Aged and Older Adults With COVID-19.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2022 Almeida LKR, Avelino-Silva TJ, de Lima E Silva DC, Campos BA, Varela G, Fonseca CMB, Amorim VL, Piza FMT, Aliberti MJ, Degani-Costa LH
• Applicability of the GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition in older adults in the emergency ward: A pilot validation study.
  Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2021 Muñoz Fernandez SS, Garcez FB, Alencar JCG, Cederholm T, Aprahamian I, Morley JE, de Souza HP, Avelino da Silva TJ, Ribeiro SML
• Muscle strength and muscle mass as predictors of hospital length of stay in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19: a prospective observational study.
  Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2021 Gil S, Jacob Filho W, Shinjo SK, Ferriolli E, Busse AL, Avelino-Silva TJ, Longobardi I, de Oliveira Júnior GN, Swinton P, Gualano B, Roschel H, HCFMUSP COVID-19 Study Group
• "Part of a great team": Perceptions of geriatrics fellows on doing research during a pandemic.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Berjeaut EJBK, de Carvalho BM, Aliberti MJR, Avelino-Silva TJ, Campora F, Jacob-Filho W, Garcez FB
• COVID-19 is not over and age is not enough: Using frailty for prognostication in hospitalized patients.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Aliberti MJR, Szlejf C, Avelino-Silva VI, Suemoto CK, Apolinario D, Dias MB, Garcez FB, Trindade CB, Amaral JRDG, de Melo LR, de Aguiar RC, Coelho PHL, Hojaij NHSL, Saraiva MD, da Silva NOT, Jacob-…
• Beyond Age-Improvement of Prognostication Through Physical and Cognitive Functioning for Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Aliberti MJR, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Divergent: Age, Frailty, and Atypical Presentations of COVID-19 in Hospitalized Patients.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021 Poco PCE, Aliberti MJR, Dias MB, Takahashi SF, Leonel FC, Altona M, Venys AL, Shin-Ike IA, Garcia BA, Sumita LH, Lima LMO, Garcez FB, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life-space mobility of older adults with cancer.
  Journal of geriatric oncology 2021 Gattás-Vernaglia IF, Ramos PT, Perini MLL, Higa CS, Apolinario D, Aliberti MJR, Kanaji AL, Adriazola IO, Saraiva MD, Avelino-Silva TJ, de Assis Moura Tavares C, Jacob-Filho W, Karnakis T
• A fuller picture of COVID-19 prognosis: the added value of vulnerability measures to predict mortality in hospitalised older adults.
  Age and ageing 2021 Aliberti MJR, Covinsky KE, Garcez FB, Smith AK, Curiati PK, Lee SJ, Dias MB, Melo VJD, Rego-Júnior OFD, Richinho VP, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic: do not leave delirium behind.
  Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) 2021 Castro REV, Garcez FB, Avelino-Silva TJ
• The Impact of Frailty on the Relationship between Life-Space Mobility and Quality of Life in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2021 Saraiva MD, Apolinario D, Avelino-Silva TJ, de Assis Moura Tavares C, Gattás-Vernaglia IF, Marques Fernandes C, Rabelo LM, Tavares Fernandes Yamaguti S, Karnakis T, Kalil-Filho R, Jacob-Filho W, …
• Prospective GERiatric Observational (ProGERO) study: cohort design and preliminary results.
  BMC geriatrics 2020 Saraiva MD, Rangel LF, Cunha JLL, Rotta TCA, Douradinho C, Khazaal EJB, Aliberti MJR, Avelino-Silva TJ, Apolinario D, Suemoto CK, Jacob-Filho W
• ACE2 Expression and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Severity in Patients with Advanced Age.
  Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia 2020 Tavares CAM, Avelino-Silva TJ, Benard G, Cardozo FAM, Fernandes JR, Girardi ACC, Jacob Filho W
• Delirium and Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Garcez FB, Aliberti MJR, Poco PCE, Hiratsuka M, Takahashi SF, Coelho VA, Salotto DB, Moreira MLV, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Diagnostic discrepancies between emergency department admissions and hospital discharges among older adults: secondary analysis on a population-based survey.
  Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina 2020 Avelino-Silva TJ, Steinman MA
• Predicting Hospital Admission and Prolonged Length of Stay in Older Adults in the Emergency Department: The PRO-AGE Scoring System.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2020 Curiati PK, Gil-Junior LA, Morinaga CV, Ganem F, Curiati JAE, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Association Between Level of Arousal and 30-Day Survival in Acutely Ill Older Adults.
  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020 Garcez FB, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Delirium and post-discharge dementia: results from a cohort of older adults without baseline cognitive impairment.
  Age and ageing 2019 Garcez FB, Apolinario D, Campora F, Curiati JAE, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• 10-Minute Targeted Geriatric Assessment Predicts Disability and Hospitalization in Fast-Paced Acute Care Settings.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2019 Aliberti MJR, Covinsky KE, Apolinario D, Smith AK, Lee SJ, Fortes-Filho SQ, Melo JA, Souza NPS, Avelino-Silva TJ, Jacob-Filho W
• Clinical and laboratory characteristics associated with referral of hospitalized elderly to palliative care.
  Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2018 Arcanjo SP, Saporetti LA, Curiati JAE, Jacob-Filho W, Avelino-Silva TJ
• Prognostic effects of delirium motor subtypes in hospitalized older adults: A prospective cohort study.
  PloS one 2018 Avelino-Silva TJ, Campora F, Curiati JAE, Jacob-Filho W
• Association between delirium superimposed on dementia and mortality in hospitalized older adults: A prospective cohort study.
  PLoS medicine 2017 Avelino-Silva TJ, Campora F, Curiati JA, Jacob-Filho W
• Predictors of Enteral Tube Feeding in Hospitalized Older Adults.
  JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition 2016 Crenitte MRF, Avelino-Silva TJ, Apolinario D, Curiati JAE, Campora F, Jacob-Filho W
• Evaluating Communication Skills of Geriatrics Fellows: Interrater Agreement of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Saraiva MD, de Melo Paulo ML, Avelino-Silva TJ, Gil-Junior LA, Kikuchi EL, Farias LL, Alves RL, Suzuki GS, Olivieri FC, Aranha VC, da Costa Lopes L, Passarelli MC, Moriguti JC, Ferrioli E, Wen CL, …
• Comprehensive geriatric assessment predicts mortality and adverse outcomes in hospitalized older adults.
  BMC geriatrics 2014 Avelino-Silva TJ, Farfel JM, Curiati JA, Amaral JR, Campora F, Jacob-Filho W
• Implementing the objective structured clinical examination in a geriatrics fellowship program-a 3-year experience.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012 Avelino-Silva TJ, Gil LA, Suemoto CK, Kikuchi EL, Lin SM, Farias LL, Jacob-Filho W
• Antipsychotics in Alzheimer's disease: A critical analysis.
  Dementia & neuropsychologia 2011 da Silva EM, Braga RCOP, Avelino-Silva TJ, Gil Junior LA
• Campaign, counseling and compliance with influenza vaccine among older persons.
  Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2011 Avelino-Silva VI, Avelino-Silva TJ, Miraglia JL, Miyaji KT, Jacob-Filho W, Lopes MH
• Aging and HIV infection.
  Ageing research reviews 2010 Avelino-Silva VI, Ho YL, Avelino-Silva TJ, Santos Sde S
• Predictors of in-hospital mortality among older patients.
  Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 2009 Silva TJ, Jerussalmy CS, Farfel JM, Curiati JA, Jacob-Filho W