Vítor Tedim Cruz was born in Porto, Portugal in 1974. Se licenció en Medicina en la ICBAS-HGSA (Universidad de Oporto, 1992-1998), se especializó en Neurología (2001-2005), continuó con un posgrado en Gestión de Sistemas Sanitarios en la Porto Business School (2009-2010) y finalizó su doctorado en Ciencias de la Salud y Tecnología en la Universidad de Aveiro en 2014. In 2015 he integrated the Epidemiological Research Unit at the Public Health Institute of the University of Oporto.
Sus intereses de investigación principales son la neurorrehabilitación, la neurología cognitiva y conductual y las enfermedades cerebrovasculares. 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 impartido clases sobre Neurociencia como adjunto invitado en el Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad de 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.
