Medicine Doctor (University of Granada, School of Medicine, 1983). Resident Physician and Fellow of the Nephrology Department of Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid (1985-1988). Degree of Specialist in Nephrology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1989. Certificate of Clinical Specialist in Hypertension from the European Hypertension Society in 2001 (renewed in 2007 and 2012). Doctor of Philosophy (Universidad de Extremadura, 1991). Currently he is Senior Consultant Physician in Nephrology and Head of the Hypertension Unit of Hospital Infanta Cristina, Badajoz. Associate Professor of Nephrology (Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz). Associated director of the Chair on Cardiovascular Risk University of Salamanca, School of Medicine). Member of the Spanish Dialysis and Transplant Patients Registry Committee (1996-2001) and National Coordinator of the European Renal Association- European Dialysis and Transplant Association Registry (1996-1999). Currently, he is a member of the Spanish Nephrology Society Research Committee. Vice-president of Spanish Hypertension Society (2008-2011). He has given more than one hundred and ninety conferences, presentations and seminars. Author or co-author of more than two hundred scientific publications and thirty-one book chapters. Field of interest: chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, nephrosclerosis, hypertension and cardiovascular risk, rare kidney diseases).