Dr. Sergio Lopes Viana is a practicing musculoskeletal radiologist at the Hospital da Criança de Brasília (Brasília Children’s Hospital) in Brasília, Brazil, with a particular interest in rheumatology, pediatric musculoskeletal imaging, and articular injuries, also being a full member of the Brazilian College of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging. He graduated with a degree in Medicine from the Universidade Federal do Piauí (Teresina, Brazil) in 1995 and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil, 1997) and in Radiology at the Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal (Brasília, Brazil, 2000). He co-authored the books “Diagnóstico por imagem em reumatologia” (Guanabara-Koogan, 2007) and “Joint imaging in childhood and adolescence” (Springer, 2013 [1st ed] and 2019 [2nd ed]). His publications also include five book chapters and dozens of articles published in Brazil and abroad. He has also lectured extensively on musculoskeletal imaging as a guest speaker throughout Brazil.

He maintains a bilingual Instagram channel.