Assistant Professor
University of Miami
Miami, FL, United States
Coral Olazagasti, MD is an assistant professor at the Sylvester Cancer Center, University of Miami at Miami, Florida. Dr. Olazagasti earned her medical degree from the Universidad Central del Caribe from Bayamon, Puerto Rico. She relocated to New York City to pursue an Internal Medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. After completing her medical residency training, Dr. Coral Olazagasti worked as an academic hospitalist for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Boston, MA before pursuing a Hematology-Oncology training at Northwell Health in New York. She is currently a medical oncologist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center with a focus on head and neck and thoracic malignancies.
Dr. Olazagasti is a passionate advocate of early detection and lung cancer screening. Additionally, as a Latina oncologist, Dr. Olazagasti is personally invested in the study of disparities in cancer care in racial and ethnic minorities. She has drawn on her own experiences to highlight the inequities and barriers that minority patients face in healthcare. Dr. Olazagasti combines both interests, and she focuses lung cancer screening in racial and ethnic minorities, especially the Hispanic population. She currently focuses her research in lung cancer screening for Hispanic Head and Neck Cancer Survivors. Dr. Olazagasti hopes to continue promote early detection and help close the gap for minorities and vulnerable populations.
The Role of Palliative Care in the Management of Head and Neck Cancer
Monday, September 30, 2024
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
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faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.