Associate Professor of Medicine
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospital Case Medical Center
Dr. Pedro Barata is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Medical Oncologist with a focus in genitourinary tumors and clinical trials. He earned his medical degree from the New University of Lisbon in 2009 and completed his medical oncology training in 2016. After completion of his fellowship, he was invited to join the genitourinary group at Taussig Cancer Center, where he worked as a clinical fellow in genitourinary malignancies.
Dr. Barata recently moved to Case Comprehensive Cancer Center to lead the clinical and translational research trials in advanced genitourinary malignancies.
Dr. Barata has authored or co-authored dozens of publications in high-quality and pubmed-indexed journal and has presented multiple abstracts at important national and international meetings. Dr Barata has won multiple prestigious awards, including the Tulane Career Development Award in Clinical Sciences (2021), the Scholar-in-Training Award, the Annual Accelerating Anticancer Agent Development and Validation (AAADV) Program Scholarship (2018) and the AACR-NCI-EORTC Triple Meeting (2017).
Dr. Barata serves as a reviewer for prestigious peer-reviewed journals, such as JAMA Oncology, Cancer, Lancet Oncology, ASCO and Journal of Global Oncology and is the Prostate Section Editor of the Oncologist journal and a member of the Editorial Board of the Translation Oncology journal.