Dr. Juan Carlos Yugar-Toledo has a degree in medicine from the University of São Paulo, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto (1979), a master's degree in pharmacology from the State University of Campinas (2000), and a PhD in pharmacology from the State University of Campinas (2006). He is currently a cardiologist at the Rio Preto Institute of Cardiology and Endocrinology and a postgraduate professor at the State Faculty of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto. He is an advisor in the Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences at the State Faculty of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto. He is also the coordinator of the resistant hypertension outpatient clinic at the State Faculty of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto. He has experience in the area of ​​medicine, with an emphasis on cardiology, working mainly on the following topics: cardiology, cardiovascular pharmacology, arterial hypertension, endothelium, echocardiography, and pathophysiology.