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About Marco Ruiz

Marco Ruiz, MD, MPH, is a Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant physician working as the new Chief of HIV Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Miami Cancer Institute, part of the Baptist Health System. South Florida. For more than ten years, Dr. Ruiz has been treating patients with cancer specifically Hematologic Malignancies and Bone Marrow Transplant patients. His experience with malignancies comes from clinical exposure and from research projects. His research efforts have focused on hematologic malignancy issues in HIV- infected patients and the role of Geriatrics in Bone Marrow Transplant patients. His research expertise also includes malignancies in senior populations and the suitability of senior patients for chemotherapy treatments. Dr Ruiz is an Associate Professor of the Florida International University School of Medicine. 

Positions

May 2019 - Present Chief of HIV Oncology and HIV Stem Cell Transplantation, Baptist Health South Florida ‐ Miami Cancer Institute
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August 2016 - Present Associate Professor, Florida International University ‐ Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
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July 2017 - April 2019 Associate Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center ‐ Malignant Hematology and Cellular therapy. Bone Marrow Transplant Program
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July 2016 - June 2017 Physician, Memorial Health Care System ‐ Hematology Malignancies/Bone Marrow Transplant Program
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September 2014 - June 2016 Medical Director, Louisiana Palliative Care and Hospice
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July 2013 - June 2016 Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans ‐ Section of Infectious Diseases and Geriatrics Medicine
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September 2012 - September 2014 Medical Director, Amedisys Hospice Care - New Orleans
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July 2009 - June 2013 Associate Director, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans ‐ Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program
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July 2008 - June 2013 Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans ‐ Section of Geriatric Medicine
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July 2007 - June 2013 Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans ‐ Section of Infectious Diseases
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April 1994 - June 2001 General Practitioner, Private Practice - Peru
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Disciplines

Grants

2016 - 2016 Adapting an intervention to encourage Advance care planning discussions in Malignant Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant patients
Cambia Health Foundation
$180,000
2013 - 2016 Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Intervention for Aging-HIV infected patients who abuse alcohol
Collaborative NIH/NIAAA - 1U01AA021995-01 U01
Role: PI
2010 - 2010 Non-AIDS defining malignancies
Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Program (MB-CCOP) Grant
Role: Co-PI
2008 - 2008 Pneumocystis colonization, inflammation and aging
SLIIDR grant
Role: Co-PI
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2017 Voluntary Physician, FLASCO Florida Society of Clinical Oncology
2016 Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology
2016 Member, American Society of Hematology
2016 Voluntary speaker, Lymphoma and Leukemia Society
2014 Fellow, Infectious Disease Society of America
2013 Voluntary Physician Counselor, International Medical Graduates- Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
2012 Fellow, American College of Physicians
2009 Member, American Geriatrics Society
2009 Member, Association of Directors of Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Programs - American Geriatrics Society
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Honors and Awards

  • October 2018 Association of Community Cancer Centers Award on Presidential Oral presentation
  • October 2017 Association of Community Cancer Centers Award on Presidential Oral presentation
  • September 2017 Memorial Cancer Institute Award for Clinical Excellence
  • 2011 Nominee for the Aesculapius Teaching Award Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
  • 2011 Nominated in Marquis Who is Who in Health care 2011
  • 2010 Nominated in the “Guide to Best American Physicians 2010”
  • 2009 Nominated in the “Guide to America’s Top Physicians 2009”
  • 2009 Nominated in the Cambridge Who is Who 2009 list
  • April-May 2004 Scholarship Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine Health policy rotation April-May 2004 Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Washington DC
  • 1996 Scholarship British Council. Award for postgraduate training in the United Kingdom
  • 1994 Cum Laude University of San Marcos Medical School, Lima-Peru

Education

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December 2018 - Present Master of Business Administration, M.B.A., Isenberg U Mass Amherst ‐ American Association for Physician Leadership Master Program
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July 2015 - June 2016 Clinical Fellowship, Ochsner Medical Center FACT accredited institution New Orleans Louisiana ‐ Bone Marrow Transplantation Fellowship Training
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July 2013 - June 2016 Clinical Fellowship, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center ‐ Hematology Oncology
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September 2009 - August 2010 Postgraduate Certificate International Health, University of Cumbria/Lancaster United Kingdom
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July 2006 - June 2007 Clinical Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago ‐ Geriatric Medicine
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July 2004 - June 2006 Clinical Fellowship, Louisiana State University New Orleans ‐ Infectious Diseases
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July 2002 - June 2004 Residency, San Juan City Hospital- San Juan, Puerto Rico
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July 2001 - June 2002 Internship, San Juan City Hospital- San Juan, Puerto Rico
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September 1999 - August 2000 Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Health Care, University of Leeds School of Medicine, Leeds, England
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September 1997 - August 1998 Master of Public Health, M.P.H., University of Leeds ‐ Nuffield Institute for Health
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April 1986 - April 1994 Doctor of Medicine, M.D., University of San Marcos School of Medicine, Lima, Peru
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April 1985 - April 1986 University of San Marcos-Lima-Peru
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Links

Contact Information

Miami Cancer Institute
8900 N. Kendall Drive
Miami, FL 33176
(786) 596-2000

Articles (54)

Book Chapters (1)

Posters (3)

Presentations (3)

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