Vítor Tedim Cruz was born in Porto, Portugal in 1974. University of Oporto(1992~1998) ICBAS-HGSA에서 MD 학위를 받았으며 신경과(2001~2005)를 졸업하고 University of Oporto Business School(2009~2010)에서 보건 시스템 관리 대학원을 졸업했습니다. 2014년 University of Aveiro에서 보건 과학 및 기술 박사 학위를 취득했습니다. In 2015 he integrated the Epidemiological Research Unit at the Public Health Institute of the University of Oporto.
그의 주요 연구 관심사는 신경 재활, 인지 및 행동 신경학, 뇌혈관 질환입니다. 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. 그는 University of Aveiro(2006~2014)의 보건 과학 부서에서 초빙 조교로 신경 과학을 강의했습니다. 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.