Diogo P. Moniz Garcia, MD

Diogo P. Moniz Garcia, MD

PGY1 Resident

MD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina

Post-Doc, Mayo Clinic

Hometown: Ponta Delgada, Azores

The residency program at WashU has an extraordinary range of clinical and research exposure. The opportunity to learn from extraordinary faculty, residents and nurses truly distinguishes the program.

Dr. Garcia

Clinical & research interests

  • Gliomas
  • Metastatic brain tumors
  • Pituitary tumors
  • Skull base surgery
  • Neurotechnology and Innovation
  • Outcomes research

Honors and awards

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Merit Award, Intra-operative desorption-electrospray ionization mass-spectrometry for real-time diagnosis, margin assessment and maximization of brain cancer resection, 2023
  • Research Fellow of The Year, Mayo Clinic Florida Neurosurgery, 2023
  • 1st Prize Oral Presentation, Mayo Clinic Post-Doctoral Research, 2023
  • Best Basic Science Award, Advances in Neuro-Oncology Symposium, 2023
  • AANS/CNS Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award, Intra-operative near real time detection of tumor infiltration in IDH-mutant gliomas using desorption electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (DESI-MS), 2022
  • Young Investigator Award, Mayo Clinic Symposium on Immuno-Oncology and Tumor, Microenvironment Crosstalk: Impact of Heterogeneous Microenvironment Niches in Glioblastoma’s Therapeutic Vulnerability, 2022
  • Winner of Mayo Clinic’s Alligator Tank Health Care Innovation Pitch Competition, BrainPacer – The Brain’s first pacemaker, 2022
  • 2nd Place Walleye Tank: Minnesota’s Life Science Competition, BrainPacer – The Brain’s first pacemaker, 2022
  • American Brain tumor Association (ABTA) Young Investigator Award, Intraoperative detection of IDH mutation status and residual tumor in glioma, 2021