Education:
June 2004 M.D. Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine – Bayamon, Puerto Rico
May 1998 B.S. University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus – Puerto Rico
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:
July 2010 – June 2011 Cytopathology Fellowship Tulane University Medical Center New Orleans, Louisiana.
July 2006 – June 2010 Anatomical & Clinical Pathology Residency Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
June 2005 – June 2006 PGY-1, Pathology University District Hospital, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Bibliography
Poster Presentations
1. L. F. Serrano, B. Ruiz, M. Torrellas “Primary Small Cell Carcinoma Of the Breast: Imaging overview and histopathological correlation” Poster Type: Educational Exhibit, European Congress of Radiology, 2011
2. John Schieffelin MD, Mariclara Torrellas-Ruiz MD, Changa Kurukularatne MD, Serge Larrtchenko MD, Farrukh Gill MD, Julia Garcia-Diaz MD, Robin McGoey, MD “How Natural Disasters Change Natural Patterns: Coccidioidomycosis in New Orleans!” Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA (March 2008). Poster for the annual meeting of IDSA, October 2007.
Original Manuscripts
1. Teresita Muñoz-Antonia, Mariclara Torrellas-Ruiz, Jonathan Clavell, Linda A. Mathews, Carlos A. Muro-Cacho and Adriana Baez. Aberrant Methylation Inactivates Transforming Growth Factor β Receptor I in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Otolaryngology (March 2009)
