He is an established researcher in Brazil and has over 250 scientific publications indexed in the Pubmed, including research papers in myocardial infarctions/microvascular obstruction myocardial sodium-23 CMR studies in animals and humans. He has also pioneered the use of late gadolinium enhancement in 4 specific non-ischemic cardiomyopathies: Chagas´ disease, muscular dystrophy, aortic valve disease, and endomyocardial fibrosis. He is a founding member of SCMR and has been active at SCMR meetings since 1996 (never missed a meeting since then). He was Chair of the Latin American Chapter of SCMR, member of the editorial board of the JCMR, member of scientific program committee and served as member of the SCMR Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2017. He will work to increase SCMR footprint around the World.