Dr. Brugada obtained his BS in Internal Medicine from Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and studied Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas where he trained as a molecular genetics researcher in cardiovascular disease lead by Dr. Robert Roberts. In 2002, he was appointed Director of Molecular Genetics at the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, in New York State, where he led a new research program. In 2005, he moved to Montreal where he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, Cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, and Research Scientist and Director of the Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics Center. In 2008, he returned to Girona as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Girona, a project he led from the beginning and a project that is characterized by training through the ABP (Problem-Based Learning) method. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Chair of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Girona. He also joined the Josep Trueta University Hospital as a cardiologist and as Director of the Family Cardiology Unit and the Cardiovascular Genetics Clinical Laboratory. Since 2017, he has been the Chief of Cardiology at the Dr. Josep Trueta Hospital and the Hospital de Santa Caterina de Girona. From the research point of view, in 2008 he was appointed Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center in IDIBGi. In 2011, he launched a cardiovascular genetics diagnostic laboratory.