I am a clinical rheumatologist with an academic focus. I practice my specialty through actions in teaching, research, outreach, and patient care. My teaching and care practices are primarily carried out through tutoring activities, within the framework of traditional teaching methodologies and active methodologies, such as problem-based learning, as well as through supervision in rheumatology outpatient clinics, particularly for systemic lupus erythematosus and early arthritis. As part of my outreach activities, I have developed educational initiatives for patients, families, and caregivers, using music as a guiding thread for interaction and learning. In my practice as a researcher, I seek to explore the interface between clinical care and public health, where I am particularly drawn to three areas. First, shared decision-making, which aims to develop both hard and soft technologies for involving patients in their health care decisions. This expertise has been supported by a series of publications, oral communications, lectures, grants, and public funding achieved to develop these initiatives. Second, I am interested in researching patient-centered outcomes, whether through primary data collection or by utilizing administrative databases. Third, and also connected to the second item, I focus on studying social disparities and clinical outcomes, that is, investigating the set of interactions involving epidemiology, disease burden (including quality of life and survival), and the quality of care and its potential associations with clinical outcomes. These interests have also been corroborated in academic and technical productions, ongoing projects with this focus, and government funding obtained to develop them, whether through competitive grants or awards, both nationally and internationally.

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