Fabio have been working with bovine reproduction for 13 years since he received his veterinary degree at São Paulo State University in 2004. During the last year of his veterinary training, he spent six months at University of Wisconsin–Madison, working with postpartum health disorders, reproductive physiology, and management of dairy cows. In 2005 he did an internship focused on dairy production medicine, reproduction, and nutrition at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center at Tulare (University of California–Davis).