EDUCATION :
Graduated in the Medical Sciences 
course from the University of Taubaté (UNITAU) 1984 
Specialization in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Hospital of Taubaté. (From April 1985 to February 1986) 
Specialization in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Leonor Mendes de Barros Hospital in São Paulo. (From March 1986 to February 1988) 
Master in Gynecology from the University of São Paulo - 1995) PHD in Gynecology from the University of São Paulo – 1999) 
 

TITLES AND FUNCTIONS:
Titles of specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics – Awarded by the Brazilian Medical Association (A.M.B.) and Brazilian Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FEBRASGO) in 1988 TEGO nº 225/88. 
Professor Assistant of Gynecology Discipline of University of Taubaté since 1989 
Member of the Medical Teaching Valuation Committee of University of Taubaté since 1999 
Supervisor of Obstetric and Gynecology disciplines at the Hospital Universitário de Taubaté (University of Taubaté) (teaching as well of administrative responsibility). 
Member of Bioethics Committee of University of Taubaté since 1999 
Member of the Committee of Scientific Initiation of University of Taubaté, 2000 
Educational TV program in Gynecology in Setorial Television, since June 2001. 
Invited speaker to XIX University Congress of University of Taubaté, August 1991 
Invited speaker to Jornada SOGESP de Ginecologia, Campos do Jordão - SP, August 1998 
Invited speaker to Congress Brasileiro de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, November 2000 
 

PUBLICATIONS:: 
Mariani Neto, C; Aquino, MM; Leão, E; Kenji, G; Tuffi, VHB. Use of misoprostol for labor induction in stillbirth]. Rev Paul Med. 1987 Nov-Dec;105(6):325-8) 
Cervix carcinoma, treatment and complications. Presentation in 28a Jornada Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, in Curitiba em 1987. 

Procedimentos cirúrgicos melhorando a incidência de complicações da histerectomia radical com linfadenectomia pélvica no tratamento do carcinoma de colo do útero. Presentation in 28a Jornada Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, in Curitiba em 1987. 

Knowledge of how to use contraception methods and sexual transmitted diseases between 1778 students of University of Taubaté. Presentation in III Jornada Paulista de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia no Guarujá, SP (SOGESP) 

Tuffi, VHB; Eluf Neto, J; Marques, JA; Carvalho, FM; Souen, J. Contribuição do estudo da relação do papilomavirus humano com o carcinoma da vulva. Rev Gin & Obst, 8(2):58-64, 1997. 

Tuffi, VHB; Marques JA; Carvalho, FM; Souen, J. Carcinoma da vulva. Rev Gin & Obst, 8(2):113-8, 1997. 
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