Welcoming New Faculty – Filipe La Fuente de Carvalho, MD, PhD

Please join us in welcoming Filipe La Fuente de Carvalho, MD, PhD, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Filipe La Fuente de Carvalho, MD, PhD
Associate Surgeon, Division of Urology

Dr. de Carvalho received his medical degree from the University of Porto School of Medicine in Portugal. He completed residency training in general surgery and urology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and a urology residency at Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Portugal. He was a postdoctoral fellow and holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Most recently, he completed the Combined Harvard Program in Urologic Oncology at Mass General Hospital and the Brigham.

Dr. de Carvalho’s research interests integrate genomic and transcriptomic data with pre-clinical models to define molecular mechanisms of cancer progression and resistance to therapy, with a particular focus on bladder cancer. Dr. de Carvalho has been recognized as a Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator and a Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellow. He is also the recipient of an Early-Career Investigator Award by the American Urological Association (AUA) Research Forum.