Professor

Pharmacist and researcher currently pursuing a PhD in Pharmaceutical Assistance at the Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Assistance (PPGASFAR), Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. His doctoral research focuses on the application of pharmacognostic and analytical methods for evaluating the authenticity, quality, and safety of herbal and dietary supplements suspected of causing herb-induced liver injury (HILI). He holds a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Postgraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPGFARMA) at Bahia State University (UNEB), where he conducted research on the quality control and metabolic profiling of herbal mixtures marketed for weight loss in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, within the research area of drug and natural product prospecting. He also obtained a postgraduate specialization in Pharmaceutical Assistance and Pharmaceutical Care from the Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPOG), presenting a final project entitled “The Importance of Pharmaceutical Care for the Rational Use of Herbal Medicines in Brazil.” During his academic training, he participated as a teaching assistant in the extension program “Pharmacy of the Earth” at UFBA, contributing to studies related to ethnopharmacology and herbal medicine. He graduated in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy of UFBA and received additional training in Bromatology between 2008 and 2010. He has professional experience as a pharmacy lecturer at the National Commercial Learning Service of Bahia (SENAC-BA), pharmacy preceptor at Estácio de Sá University, and assistant professor in the Pharmacy and Biomedicine programs at the Metropolitan Union of Education and Culture (UNIME). His research interests include pharmacognosy, herbal medicines, analytical chemistry, phytochemical authentication, toxicology, pharmacovigilance, herb-induced liver injury (HILI), and the quality control of herbal and dietary supplements.