Dr Ricardo Alvarez is Medical Director of Clinical Research and Leader of the Breast Cancer Institute at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Augusta, GA, USA.
He is internationally known for his contribution to breast cancer multidisciplinary management, inflammatory breast cancer, and discovery and monitoring of minimal residual disease in solid tumors. As a medical oncologist, he has focused his clinical career the past two decades on treating patients with the most difficult cases of breast cancer.
Frequently presenting at international conference, he has also received numerous professional awards for his work in cancer research and has authored more than 50 articles, abstracts and book chapter.
He is a member professional societies including ASCO, ACP, AACR, and SOCRA. He was a founding member of Grupo de Estudio Tratamiento e Investigacion del Cancer del Sur (GETICS) in Argentina in 1996.