Alvaro Alencar

Dr. Alencar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine member of the lymphoma program at the division of hematology at University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Alencar is a national recognized expert in lymphoid malignancies. Over the last decade, he has focused his research on b-cell malignancies with a special interest in lymphoid malignancies in the elderly population. He also has a special interest on research of minorities and has worked extensively with multiple centers in Latin America on the research of genetic traits in hematologic disorders and correlation with ancestry. He is a member of the lymphoma committee at the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and is the principal investigator in several novel clinical trials at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.