Dr. Carlos Barrios

Professor

Brazil

Professor of the Internal Medicine Department and the Director of the Oncology Research Unit at Hospital São Lucas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in  Porto Alegre, Brazil, since 1991. Currently Dr. Barrios is also the Director of the Cancer Institute at the Hospital Mãe de Deu in Porto Alegre and the Director of the Latin American Clinical Oncology Research Group (GLICO).

Graduated from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in 1979. After training in Internal Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital (University of Miami, Florida) from 1982-1985, he went on to complete a Hematology and Oncology Fellowship at Barnes/Jewish Hospitals (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri) from 1985-1988. He was a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Washington University in 1989. He has obtained the following certifications: ECFMG (1978); VQE (1981); FLEX; Board of Medical Examiners, Florida (1985); American Board of Internal Medicine (1986); American Board of Oncology (1987); and American Board of Hematology (1988).

Adjuvant Assistant Professor of the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine since 1990 and the local representative of the William J. Harrington Latin American Program. He has participated in many clinical trials over the last 10 years. He has numerous publications in professional medical journals and is often invited as a speaker at cancer congresses worldwide.