Graduate at Medicina Veterinaria from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1972), master's at Biochemistry from Universidade de São Paulo (1978) and ph.d. at Biochemistry from Universidade de São Paulo (1982). Has experience in Veterinary Parasitology, focusing on Animal Parasite Protozoology, acting on the following subjects: Tick and tick borne diseases (babesiosis, anaplasmosis), Trypanosoma evansi and T. vivax and Ehrlichia canis. Has worked with serology and molecular diagnostic of parasites and with Imunoparasitology (celular imunne response).