He obtained a doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on psychopathological alterations in patients diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, under the guidance of Valentim Gentil Filho, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital of the Harvard University School of Medicine.
He obtained a doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on psychopathological alterations in patients. These patients were diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus. This was under the guidance of Valentim Gentil Filho. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital of the Harvard University School of Medicine.