About SLACOM

Board of Directors: DR. CARLOS GARBINO   Doctor in Medicine:October 24, 1968. Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic. Montevideo. Uruguay. Specialist in Medical Oncology, Clinical Oncology and Internal Medicine, Graduate School of the Faculty of Medicine. Uruguay. Specialization in Mastology, Treatment area, Uruguayan Society of Mastology. Member  of the Board of Directors of the Société Internationale de Sénologie; period 2002-2004 International Cooperation area, General Secretary period 2004-2006 and, presently, in the area of International Cooperation for the period 2007-2008. President of the Oncology Group in Uruguay.

Member of : SLACOM, ASCO, ESMO, IASLC, SIS, FLAM, BCIRG, CIBOMA, SUM, SOMPU, AMERICA MAMA URUGUAY, AMU, AMA, NOVARTIS INTERNATIONAL GROUP.

Principal Researcher of the Collaborative Cancer Treatment Research Program –CCTRP- de PAHO/NCI, 1981 – 1985.

Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology 1981 – 1985.

Director, Oncology Service of Police Hospital, 1993 – 2000.

Director, Oncology Service of Armed Forces Central Hospital, 1999 – 2007.

Chief, Mastology Unit of Police Hospital, 1996 – 2000.

President of the Uruguayan Society of Mastology, 2000 – 2002.

President of the Medical and Pediatric Oncology Society of Uruguay, 1983 – 1986.

Vice-President of the Latinamerican Federation of Mastology – FLAM, 1998 – 2001.

Temporary Advisor of OPS/PAHO, 1974 – 1978.-

President of the 1st. Uruguayan Congress of Oncology, 1986.
President of the 3rd Uruguayan Congress of Mastology, 1999.

Vice-President of the Mastology Congress of the MERCOSUR, 1999.

President of the River Plate area Symposia of Clinical Oncology.
Author of 400 Manuscripts and Abstracts in Oncology and Internal Medicine. PhD thesis.  Teaching and Monographs Thesis.

Six Medicine Awards in Oncology and Hematology.


Books published: Primitive Tumors of the Central Nervous System; 2nd Uruguayan Congress of Oncology.

Scholarships: Barcelona, España; Paris, Marseille and Lyon, France; Baltimore, USA; Bern, Switzerland.

Founder of the Uruguayan Society of Medical and Pediatric Oncology (SOMPU); Uruguayan Society of Mastology (SUM); Uruguayan School of Mastology; América Mama Uruguay (AMU); Latinamerican & Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM); Latinamerican Coalition of Breast Oncology (CIBOMA).