Vítor Tedim Cruz was born in Porto, Portugal in 1974. Ha conseguito la laurea in MD presso l’ICBAS-HGSA, Università di Oporto (1992-1998), si è laureato in Neurologia (2001-2005), ha proseguito con una specializzazione in Gestione dei sistemi sanitari presso la Business School di Oporto (2009-2010) e ha concluso il dottorato in Scienze della salute e Tecnologia presso l’Università di Aveiro nel 2014. In 2015 he integrated the Epidemiological Research Unit at the Public Health Institute of the University of Oporto.
I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano la neuroriabilitazione, la neurologia cognitiva e comportamentale e le malattie cerebrovascolari. He is the principal investigator and co-investigator of public funded scientific projects and co-author of international peer-reviewed articles indexed in Pubmed, 15 books and book chapters. Ha tenuto lezioni sulle neuroscienze come assistente invitato presso il Dipartimento di Scienze della salute dell’Università di Aveiro (2006-2014). As a Senior Neurologist (2006-2016) he worked at the Neurology Department, Centro Hospitalar Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, where he ran a memory clinic and acute stroke care organisation. In 2011 he co-founded Neuroinova, a company dedicated to research and development of technologies in the field of cognitive rehabilitation and commercialisation of COGWEB®, Brain on Track® and CACAO® systems. He is a member of the board of the Portuguese Stroke Organisation (since 2011) and of the board of Neurologists of the Portuguese Medical Council (2012-2021). Since 2016 he is head of the Neurology Department and Stroke Unit at Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos, Portugal.
