Mario I. Fernández, MD, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Clínica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, in Santiago (Chile) in the Center of Genetics and Genomics, where he leads research projects in urothelial bladder cancer. He is also a Faculty in the Department of Urology at Clínica Alemana de Santiago, where his clinical practice (special interest in Urologic Oncology and Endourology) is located.

Dr. Fernández earned his undergraduate degree in Medicine from the P. Universidad Católica in Santiago and completed urology residency at Universidad de Chile. He then obtained his doctoral degree at the Department of Urology of the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany. After a one-year stay as Visiting Scientist at the Department of Urology of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, he is a now a surgeon-scientist whose research efforts focus ongenetic susceptibility, epidemiology, carcinogenesis, and clinical and molecular prognostic factors in urothelial tumors.

He has authored over 75 publications in peer reviewed journals as well as book chapters and serves as a reviewer for over 15 journals. He is currently member of the board of the Sociedad Chilena de Urología and Editor-In-Chief of the Revista Chilena de Urología.