Alexandre Antônio Cunha Abizaid graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and completed his specialization in Cardiology at the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology. He earned his Master's and Doctorate degrees in Cardiology from the Federal University of São Paulo, respectively, and completed his Habilitation (Livre-Docência) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo - FMUSP. Recently, he was appointed as a Full Professor of Cardiology in the Department of Cardiopneumology at University of São Paulo. He is also a physician in the Interventional Cardiology Service at the Heart Hospital - Association of the Syrian Sanatorium and Syrian-Lebanese Hospital. 509 articles in specialized journals and 957 papers in conference proceedings. He has 60 book chapters and 03 published books.