Alberto Montero

Dr. Alberto Montero is a staff physician and the quality improvement officer at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. His clinical work focuses on breast cancer. Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Montero was breast cancer site disease co-leader at the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Montero earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, after which he completed a residency in internal medicine on the physician-scientist track at the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center. He then completed his fellowship training in hematology/oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Montero’s research interests include improvement of clinical outcomes in patients with breast cancer through the development of novel targeted therapies.

He has been the principal investigator in over 30 clinical trials and has co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Montero has also published several studies examining the cost-effectiveness of several targeted therapies currently utilized for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.