In addition, he works as an attending physician in the emergency department at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil. He graduated from the first residency program in emergency medicine in Brazil. He works for the recognition of emergency medicine in Brazil as a specialty and is a founding member of the Brazilian Emergency Medicine Society and organized the first national conference of emergency medicine. He has been a member of WINFOCUS since 2006 and was involved in the organization’s 4th WINFOCUS World Congress in Porto Alegre, Brazil.