Dr. Farias is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Karmanos Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. With formal training in cancer epidemiology and health services research, his research focuses on cancer health equity and operates under the premise that clinical care is a predominate social driver of cancer health disparities for underserved and underrepresented patients diagnosed with cancer. He has dedicated his career to unraveling the greatest barriers that prevent all patients, especially those most underserved, from receiving the best possible cancer care. Dr. Farias possess a unique ability to integrate large amounts of registry, medical claims, and survey data with health behavior theory. He is an expert in harnessing large datasets such as the NIH’s All of Us data repository, SEER-Medicare, private insurance claims, and CAHPS data to further our understanding of how multilevel determinants influence receipt of evidence-based cancer treatment. He is actively working on several research projects including a Health Equity Research Scholars Grant funded by the American Cancer Society to understand the multilevel determinants that contribute to treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). He has published more than 60 manuscripts in high impact journals in clinical oncology, health services research, and internal medicine.