Physiotherapist, with PhD in Health Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and supervised internship at Université Laval/Québec/Canada. I am currently a Professor at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) with experience in the field of Physiotherapy, working mainly on the following topics: preterm infants; lung function; child development and kangaroo care.