Antonio Coca is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University Abat Oliba of Barcelona, Spain, Honorary Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Barcelona, and Former Head of the Hypertension & Vascular Risk Unit at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain. He is Past-Chair of Working Group on "Hypertension and the Brain" of the European Society of Hypertension, Executive Officer for Latin America Relationships of the European Society of Hypertension, and Past-Chair of the "Council on Hypertension" of the European Society of Cardiology.