Ricardo Fernandes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Ontario. He is a Medical Oncologist at the London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre. He received an MD from Gama Filho University in 2004. He completed a residency in Clinical Hematology at the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital from 2007 to 2009 and was a resident in Medical Oncology at the Santa Marcelina Hospital from 2009 to 2012. He served as a Medical Oncologist at the OncoHemato Outpatient Clinic from 2012 to 2014. He worked as a Clinical Research Fellow in Medical Oncology at the Ottawa Hospital from 2014 to 2016 and as a Clinical Research Fellow in Early Phase Trials at the Oxford University Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust from 2016 to 2017. His research interests include breast and genitourinary cancers, early- and late-phase clinical trials, immunotherapy, cancer and biomarkers, and microbiome studies.