Leonardo Zornoff graduated from Medicina Humana from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho in 1987. He received a Ph.D. degree in Fisiopatologia em Clínica Médica [Botucatu] from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho in 1998. He has experience in medicine, focusing on internal medicine, with research interests in cardiac remodeling, ventricular function, heart failure, heart and nutrition, and myocardial infarction.