Fellowship Program

The Fellowship Program is directed by Pasquale Benedetto, M.D. and Co-Director, Edgardo Santos, M.D.  Dr. Benedetto is an outstanding clinical-educator with special expertise in solid tumors, especially genitourinary malignancies and sarcoma management.  Edgardo Santos, M.D. serves as Co-Director and is working to develop innovative new approaches to the Fellowship training.

Fellows in the division hail from a variety of premier North American institutions, as well as the Latin American Training Program under the direction of Donald Temple, M.D. . The program recruits talented individuals from selected Latin American medical schools for training in the United States. Fellows within the division are afforded an extraordinary clinical training experience as well as ample opportunities for bench and translational research. Fellows are able to pursue research with faculty both within and outside the division.  Many trainees have gone on to pursue academic careers at outstanding American and Latin American Medical Schools, including Moffitt Cancer Center, Washington University at St. Louis, Havard and Tulane University to name a few.

Over the years many of our fellows have received ASCO young investigator awards for their productive research efforts and developed flourishing careers at many important universities. We are proud of our fellows' legacy and continue to improve our program. Recent additions include the development of fellowship pathways geared toward research for those  fellows with focused career goals, the implementation of didactic conferences  and core curriculum to supplement the already abundant formal tumor boards/case discussion forums, and the integration of faculty research forums into the fellowship program.

A Core Curriculum for Oncology Fellows has been developed in the SCC and is being taught across multi-disciplinary lines to oncology trainees from Hematology-Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology and Surgical Oncology by a multi-disciplinary team.