Physician and Surgeon holding a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in Nutrition and Public Health. Completed postdoctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently serves as Head of the Department of Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk; President of the College of Nutrition and Health; Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Clinical Nutrition; and Coordinator of the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory at the National Institute of Public Health. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII-3) and a Medical Sciences Researcher at the Center for Nutrition and Health Research. Additionally, he is a senior researcher for the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease research project coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, and an editor for the journals "BMC Cardiovascular Disorders" and "Nutrients".