Research Fellow
The Institute for Cancer Care, Mercy Medical Center
Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, M.D. and biomedical engineer, is a clinical researcher for the Surgical Oncology Department of The Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He received both his medical doctor and biomedical engineer degrees at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. Afterward, Dr. Lopez-Ramirez moved to the United States and started research at Mercy Medical Center. His areas of active research include gastrointestinal and gynecological tumors, peritoneal surface malignancies, and cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). Areas of interest include the development of mathematical models for simulations and predicting clinical outcomes, and the use of machine learning algorithms that integrate into clinical practice and medical image analysis to improve patient care.