Vivencio Barrios, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC. Vivencio Barrios obtained an MD degree from Complutense University in 1987 (Laureate with Extraordinary Award for the Degree). He was presented with an Award by the Royal Academy of Cardiology and the National Prize of Medicine. He obtained a PhD Degree in 1999 from the Alcalá University (Laureate with Award for Best Doctoral Thesis in 1999). He is a senior consultant in cardiology at the University Hospital Ramon y Cajal, in Madrid (Spain), an associate professor of medicine at Alcalá University, Madrid (Spain), and an honorary professor for the Cardiovascular Risk Cathedra, UCAM University, and for the Department of Statistics and Operative Investigation of the School of Mathematics, Complutense University (Madrid). He is a fellow at the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and the American College of Cardiology (FACC), and a European Specialist in Hypertension for the European Society of Hypertension (ESH). Barrios has authored over 550 papers and more than 100 book chapters and monographs. He has edited 60 texts in cardiovascular pathology. He has participated as a speaker or chairman in meetings on more than 1,200 occasions and served as a principal investigator for more than 100 clinical trials and investigation projects.