Dr. Angélica Nogueira-Rodrigues graduated in Medicine at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She completed medical residency in Internal Medicine at UFMG, and in Oncology at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA). She pursued a PhD in Oncology at INCA and a Post-Doctoral fellowship in global oncology at Harvard University.
She is the founder of the the Brazilian Gynecologic Oncology Group, EVA Group, and currently its Strategy Director; Chair of Gynecology in Latin America Cooperative Oncology Group; researcher and professor at UFMG, and Director of the Brazilian Society of Medical Oncology (SBOC).
Main interests are gynecologic cancer, hereditary cancer, epidemiology of cancer in Latin America, and development of new anticancer drugs.
Dr. Rodrigues is a full member of some academic societies, including the Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology (SBOC), ASCO, ESMO, ESGO, IGCS and SGO, and she has published three books, a number of abstracts, book chapters and manuscripts.