Carlos Pineda Villaseñor is a surgeon who graduated from the School of Medicine of La Salle University in Mexico City. He received his degree as a specialist in internal medicine and rheumatology from the University of California, San Diego. He studied osteoradiology at the University of California, San Diego. He was trained as a sonographer of the musculoskeletal system and joints at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. He earned a master's degree in health sciences in the National Polytechnic Institute Superior School of Medicine, from which he graduated with honorable mention. He obtained a doctoral degree in medical and health sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in the Iztapalapa academic unit.

He has a level III membership in the National System of Researchers (SNI), as well as membership as a researcher in medical science in the category “F” in the Institutional Research System of the Secretariat of Health.

His major lines of clinical research are related to imaging in rheumatic diseases, musculoskeletal and joint ultrasound, as well as paleopathology of rheumatic diseases.