Carlos Vasconcelos is an Internal Medicine Specialist, with differentiation in the field of Clinical Immunology. In 1992, worked with Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld in the TelAviv University, in the areas of immunology and rheumatology. He received his PhD in 2007 with the thesis “Epidemiology of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the north of Portugal”. He was the founder of UIC - Unidade de Imunologia Clínica of Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto till 2016, when he retired from public functions; he is still working regularly pro bono in UIC. He is Professor of Medicine at the Medical School Instituto Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto. He is member of SLEuro, Euro-Lupus, Euro-Phospholipid, international Lupus Nephritis Terminology Advisory Group, American College of Rheumatology, Portuguese Immunology Society, Portuguese Internal Medicine Society and of the Consortium of Autoimmune Centers. He and his team participated in international projects as BIOLUPUS, PreciseSADs, T2T in SLE and EULAR Lupus task force. He was chair of the 8º European Lupus Meeting, Porto Abril 2011, and honorary president of the 11º Autoimmunity congress in Lisbon 2018. He received the first National prize of the Portuguese Internal Medicine in 2016.