Dr. Cardoso has been a Full Professor at the Dep. of PT of the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Brazil. He obtained a BSc in Physical Therapy in 1991 at UEL and MSc in Health Professional Education from Maastricht University, Netherlands (2000). His PhD in Health Sciences was at the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2003. In 2014, he was CAPES/Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Northeastern University, Boston, and also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK (Nov 2014 to April 2015). He has been teaching Epidemiology/Biostatistics and Biomechanics on the MSc/PhD program in Physical Education at UEL and has supervised 21 MSc and 11 PhD students. Professor Cardoso is the leader of the Research Group in Physical Therapy Assessment and Intervention (PAIFIT) at UEL, and his activities are concentrated in the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Clinical Epidemiology and in the "Prof. Paulo A. Seibert” Aquatic Physical Therapy Center.