Vitor Paixao Dias was born in 1960 in Portuguese. He has got the degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in 1985. He was acquitted of the title of specialist in Internal Medicine on July 11, 1994, with a classification of 19.4/20 points. He has been postgraduated in Occupational Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the Univer- sity of Porto on February 18, 2003, with a final classification of 15/20 points, and became the Specialist in Clinical Hypertension by the European Society of Hypertension since February 2008. His work experience started in 1986 as a general resident in Hospital de S Joao. But later he moved to Vila Nova in Centro Hospi- talar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho as a resident and as an assistant and later he became the same hospital resident trainer till 2010.