Graduation : Medicine - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1972) UFRGS , Brazil; Post Graduation : Internal Medicine - FMUFRGS (1974); Mastership (1983); Doctoral Phd in Medicine (Pulmonology) by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2002); Specialist ( expert) Intensive Care Medicine by Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira ( AMIB) since 1982 and Federación Panamericana e Ibérica de Medicina Intensiva 1987; ESICM- membership . Senior Membership of Academia SulRiograndense de Medicina since 1999; Ex-President -Sociedade Riograndense de Terapia Intensiva; AMIB : Ex-Vice-President and Ex-President of Medical Ethic Comitee. Professor of Medicine: Departamento de Clínica Médica – Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre ( UFCSPA) since 1990 Medical Director of ICU Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre 1998- 2005; Medical Director of Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre from 2005 - 2013; Medical Coordenator of Medical Residency Program and Ethical Research Comitee until 2013 Editorial Board experience: Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva; Revista da AMRIGS; Journal of Critical Care Medical Research : Investigator and Member of the Clinical Research Comitte team of HCOR ( São Paulo) and Brazilian Reserch in Intensive Care (BRICNET) More than 60 papers published in National ( Brazil) and International Medical Journals; more than 20 articles in Medical Books ( Brazil).

Intensive care medicine ; Hospital Respiratory Infections; Ventilator-associated pneumonia; Sepsis; Haemodinamic monitoring ; Fluids used for volemic ressucitation; Antimicrobial therapy ; Ethics in critical medicine; Quality culture in hospital medicine.