Gilberto Lopes Is Running For The UICC Board of Directors

Gilberto Lopes is the medical director for international programs and associate director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami.

He is also chief of the medical oncology division and a professor of clinical medicine at the Miller School of Medicine. Lopes is a board member of the Union for International Cancer Control and serves as Editor-in-Chief for JCO Global Oncology, published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

This year he’s running among other candidates including Matti Aapro, Tsetsegsaikhan Batmunkh, Stella Aguinaga Bialous, Maira Caleffi, Hana Chaar Choueib, Todd Harper, Christopher Jackson, Dilyara Kaidarova, David Kerr, Purna Kurkure, Gilberto Lopes, Kenji Lopez-Cuevas, Asem Mansour, Miriam Mutebi, Omar Nimri, C S Pramesh, Kathleen Schmeler, and Naoto Ueno.

Previously, he was an assistant professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University and held senior roles in clinical research at Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Center. He also served as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for Oncoclinicas, the largest oncology provider in Latin America.

Dr. Lopes has authored over 200 papers and book chapters in prestigious journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer, Nature Reviews, and Lancet.

He has lectured globally and has been involved in more than 150 studies and clinical trials across various cancer types, including breast, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and thoracic cancers. His research interests also include health disparities, health economics, policy, and access to cancer treatments in low- and middle-income countries.

Education

In 2009, Gilberto Lopes earned an MBA from the University of Bradford in the UK, including classes in Singapore.

Prior to that, in 2008, he completed additional studies at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

He obtained his MD from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil in 1997 and later achieved certification from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) in 1999. His postgraduate training includes a hematology/oncology fellowship at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, in 2006.

He also served as Chief Medical Resident and Clinical Instructor at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2003, following his internal medicine residency and internship there in 2002.

Prior to this, he completed a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil in 1999.

Awards and Honors

• Editor’s Poster Choice Award, The Lancet Oncology.
• Singapore Clinician-Investigator Award (Silver), Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress.
• Singapore Young Investigator Award (Gold), Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress.
• Doctor Award (Bronze), National Health Care Group.

Interviews with Gilberto Lopes

In an interview with The Miller School of Medicine Dr. Lopes, said “Part of my research agenda is to make sure that everything we do in high-income settings also applies in settings where resources are more limited”.

In an interview with ASCO Daily News, he said, “For me it was really learning about how to manage people, how to make sure that your budgets make sense, how investments work, how you actually get people to put money in different endeavors, and things of that sort.”

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