Rafael Arteta-Bulos, MD

Biography

Rafael Arteta-Bulos, MD, is a hematologist and medical oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Maroone Cancer Center in Weston, Florida, where he serves as Head of Genitourinary Malignancies. His clinical practice focuses on prostate, bladder, kidney cancers and testicular cancer. Dr. Arteta-Bulos earned his medical degree and a Master of Public Health and Global Health from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He completed his internal medicine residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, then a hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Tennessee Cancer Institute and The West Clinic in Memphis, where he was named Fellow of the Year and won the Best Fellow Research Project award. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. Before joining Cleveland Clinic Florida in 2019, he practiced at St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute in Boise, Idaho. There he served as Director of Research and as Site Principal Investigator for the Pacific Cancer Research Consortium, an NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) site. His research uses the National Cancer Database to study outcomes and disparities in cancer care. In GU oncology, this includes work on rare bladder cancer variants, treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer and cytoreductive nephrectomy in non-clear cell kidney cancer, presented at ASCO GU and the ASCO Annual Meeting. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and lectures often on prostate and bladder cancer in the U.S. and Latin America.