Eliete Bouskela

Eliete Bouskela (born February 15, 1950) is a Brazilian physician, researcher and professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University. She works on cardiovascular physiology

Early life and education Eliete Bouskela was born in Uberlândia, February 15, 1950. She dreamed of becoming a chemist or a criminologist. Bouskela started working at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, where she worked on the Langendorff heart preparation. She earned her PhD in physiology from the University of Washington in 1978. She designed quantitative in vivo investigation of the microcirculation in humans and animals in Brazil. She used a bat wing, demonstrating a longitudinal distensibility gradient. She was the first woman to work in the technology directorate, and the first to be elected President of FAPERJ. She is on the editorial board of Medical Express.

Awards and honours She was the fifth woman member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.