The meeting was chaired by Co-Principal Investigators in ACLARA, Prof. Flair Carrilho (Hospital das Clínicas, Brazil) and Prof. Richard Moreau (INSERM, France) and counted with the participation of Prof. Vicente Arroyo (EF CLIF, Spain) and Dr. Alberto Farias (Hospital das Clínicas, Brazil) who serves as Project Manager in the ACLARA study.