Head of the Psycho-Oncology Department
Centro de Cancer de Brasilia, Instituto Unity de Ensino e Pesquisa, Brazil
Cristiane Bergerot, Ph.D., is the Head of the Department of Psycho-Oncology at CETTRO in Brasilia, Brazil. She completed a 3 year research fellowship in the Department of Medical Oncology at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California, USA. She has been working with cancer patients for almost 18 years as a clinician and as a researcher. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in journals including first-author publications in Nature Medicine, Cancer, Journal of Immunotherapy for Cancer, British Journal of Urology International and Pscyhooncology. She has presented her work at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the ASCO Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. She has received four merit awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Conquer Cancer Foundation and was selected for the prestigious SWOG Young Investigator Course. She has received three grants in the past year: 2020 Barry Hoeven Memorial Kidney Cancer Research Grant (Kure It), ASCO Global Oncology Young Investigator, and Kidney Cancer Association Focus Award - Psychosocial. She is committed to bettering the lives of patients with cancer through (1) obtaining a detailed understanding of their quality of life and (2) addressing their quality of life through novel, targeted interventions.