Dr. Faveret has a highly distinguished medical and academic career, as founder and medical director of the Epilepsy Centers at the Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute and CEPIRIO RIO. He completed graduate studies in Pediatric Neurology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and FIOCRUZ, and specialized in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology at Bonn Universität and Bethel Epilepsie Zentrum, in Germany.