Dr. Machuca earned his medical degree at the Federal University of Parana, followed by his general surgery residency at the University of Sao Paulo, a thoracic surgery residency at Santa Casa de Porto Alegre and a doctoral degree in respiratory sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, all in Brazil. Dr. Machuca joined the Division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Florida in 2015 after completing clinical fellowships in thoracic surgery and lung transplantation at the University of Toronto. He was also a research fellow at the Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories at the University of Toronto. He is currently an associate professor of surgery, Division Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Director of the Lung Transplantation and ECMO programs.