Graduated from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Medical School, in Brazil, in 1994. He is clinically trained in Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology by the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre and attended the University of California San Francisco, as a clinical fellow. Holding an MBA in health business, he is a professor of the postgraduation course at the Fundação Universidade UNIMED.

He also serves as regular consultant of the major private health insurance company in Brazil, with over 70 companies in his portfolio. He is Coordinator of the Oncologic Drugs Benefits Program of the CAPESESP (self-financed insurance linked to Ministry of Health) and former Coordinator of the Oncology Unit of UNIMED (with 11 million people covered). He is also a founder of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomic and Outcome Research (ISPOR) Brazilian Chapter, current president elected of the local chapter and former chair of the Latin American Consortium Advisory Committee.  Board of the Americas Health Foundation.