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Carlos Vargas , M.D. , Proton Therapy Insttute, Jacksonville, FL
Carlos Vargas, MD, currently serves as a practicing physician with Boca Radiation Oncology Associates (“BROA”) in Boca Raton, FL. Before joining BROA, Dr. Vargas was an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, where he focused on proton therapy. Dr. Vargas has been the principal investigator of several completed clinical trials for the treatment of prostate cancer with proton therapy. He has also been instrumental in the novel work using concurrent chemotherapy and proton therapy for high risk prostate cancer. Dr Vargas’ work has pioneered the implementation of highly accurate targeting for image guided prostate cancer proton therapy. This includes the use of MRI and cine-MRI and PET-CT for the treatment and verification of prostate cancer proton therapy. In addition, Dr. Vargas has been the first to implement the use of image guided compatible proton therapy plans. Dr. Vargas has multiple publications in proton therapy, treatment delivery, and image guidance applications, as well as multiple clinical papers for different disease sites. Before working at the University of Florida, Dr. Vargas held positions at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan and at universities and hospitals throughout Colombia.