Bruna Pellini, MD

Biography

Dr. Bruna Pellini is the Chief of Thoracic Oncology at Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida. Prio to that, she was an Assistant Member at the Department of Thoracic Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and an Assistant Professor at Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. She specializes in the care of patients diagnosed with lung cancer. Dr. Pellini received her medical degree from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and completed her internal medicine residency at University of Central Florida College of Medicine followed by her medical oncology fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Pellini is actively involved in translational research and clinical trials in thoracic oncology. Her research is focused on the integration of liquid biopsy technologies to improve cancer care. Her work aims to enable real-time, non-invasive monitoring of treatment response, earlier detection of recurrence, and personalization of therapy for patients with lung cancer.On a national level, Dr. Pellini is the Co-Chair of the National Institutes of Health Liquid Biopsy Scientific Interest Group and a member of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Lung Translational Medicine Subcommittee. She is also the Translational Chair of the SWOG INSIGHT Phase III trial in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NCT06498635). She serves at the ASCO Stage IV NSCLC Living Guidelines Panel, the ASCO Scientific Committee for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, and the International Society for Liquid Biopsy Education and Membership Committees.