Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Maria Vieito is a medical oncologist who gained her MD from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2007 and finished her specialist training in the Clinical University Hospital of the same city in 2012. After a fellowship in clinical research at the same hospital and being awarded a European Society of Medical Oncologist Fellowship in research in palliative care she completed a two-year Translational Research Fellowship awarded by the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology in London Ontario from 2013 to 2015. Since 2017 Dr. Vieito has held a joint appointment as a medical oncologist specialized in Neuroncology in the Vall de Hebron University Hospital and as clinical investigator in the early drug development of the Vall de Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO). She is an active member of the Spanish society for Neuroncology (GEINO) where she leads the Tumors in adolescents in Young adults working group and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) where she is a member of the Pathobiology of cancer and the SPECTA comittees. She is the author of 19 indexed papers as well as 12 oral comunications to international meetings.