Associate Professor IV at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), where he has served since August 2010. He holds a degree in Dentistry from UFSM (1999), a Master of Science (2003) and a PhD (2005) in Biopathology, with an emphasis on Dental Radiology, from São Paulo State University (UNESP). He has been a permanent faculty member of the Professional Master Program in Health Sciences at UFSM since January 2024, teaching Uses and Applications of AI in Health, Research-Product Development, and Integrated Research Seminars I. His undergraduate teaching includes Integrated Clinical Dentistry and Information and Computing Technologies Applied to Health. At the University Hospital of Santa Maria (HUSM/Ebserh), he served as Teaching and Research Manager from August 2024 to February 2026, Interim Teaching and Research Manager in 2021 and 2022, and Head of the e-Health Unit from December 2016 to June 2022. He has coordinated the CTdBem Project since 2014, has been a member of the CA+SA Research Group since 2013, and has coordinated the InovaHUSM and Academic Friend of HUSM teaching projects since 2025. He was co-coordinator of the UFSM COVID-19 Hotline Project from 2020 to 2022. His expertise and research interests include artificial intelligence applied to health, hospital management, digital health technologies, radiology, and biopathology.