Luis M. Ruilope graduated as an MD at the University of Madrid and his residence and fellowship in Nephrology was at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation in Madrid. He is currently the Professor at the Public Health and Preventative Medicine department of the Autonomia University and Head of Cardiovascular and Renal Risk at the Insituto de Investigacion 12 de Octubre.

He is an international fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and of the Council of the Kidney in CV disease of the AHA. Pr Ruilope is the President of the Spanish Hypertension Society and was an Officer at large for the Scientific Council of the European Society from 1993 – 1997.

Currently he is also a member of the the Steering Committee for the following studies: HOT, INSIGHT, SCOPE, CONVINCE, ROADMAP, ASCEND and the European coordinator of the study IDNT.

A member of the editorial board of: Journal of Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Medicina Clinica, Hypertension, Journal of Human Hypertension, Journal American Society of Nephrology and Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation.