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Medicine Matters oncology

Hospital de Clínicas Montevideo, Uruguay

© Mauricio Cuello

Dr Mauricio Cuello became a Doctor in Medicine at the Universidad de la Republica, UdelaR, Montevideo-Uruguay in 2000. In 2004, he specialized in Medical Oncology at Hospital de Clinicas UdelaR. He embarked on a Fellowship in Thoracic Oncology at the Hospital Germans trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain from 2004–2009.

Now Dr Cuello is an Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology, Hospital de Clínicas, Montevideo, Uruguay and has been there since 2011.

His research activities include being the Coordinator of the Uruguayan Cooperative Oncology Group GOCUR and Director of the Oncology Respiratory Disease Unit at the Department of Oncology, Hospital de Clinicas, UdelaR from 2011 onwards. He has also been the Deputy Director at the National Cancer Institute since 2015. In his professional career, Dr Cuello has been the Clinical Coordinator in the Department of Oncology, Institute Dexeus, Barcelona, Spain from 2007–2011 and the Trial Clinical Manager at Boehringer Ingelheim, Barcelona, Spain from 2009–2011.