Professor Pablo Vargas is a dental graduate of the UNESP-Araraquara-Brazil and obtained a Master of Science and PhD titles in Oral Pathology at UNICAMP-Piracicaba-Brazil. He worked as Honorary Senior Lecturer of the Department of Oral Pathology of the University of Sheffield-UK (2005-2007) and is Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists – UK (2013 to date). He has been teaching Oral Pathology in the Piracicaba Dental School-UNICAMP and has authored or co-authored chapters and 242 scientific papers (220 indexed in PUBMED, 1.910 citations ISI) on Oral Pathology and Medicine. He belongs to the editorial board of 3 renowned international journals: 1- Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology; 2- Oral Oncology; 3-Medicina Oral. He also is a diagnostic pathologist of oral and maxillofacial lesions and his main research fields are oral cancer, salivary gland tumors, odontogenic tumours and fine needle aspiration cytology. He acted as IAOP Councillor for Latin America and the Caribbean (2008-2012) and was the local chair of IAOP-SOBEP Joint Meeting (São Pedro-SP 2012). He has been working as Extraordinary Professor of Oral Pathology at University of Pretoria (South Africa – 2014 to date) and served as Executive Director for International Relations at UNICAMP (2017). He is the current Treasurer of Brazilian Society of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology (SOBEP).