Program Faculty/Mentors
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Carmen D. Zorrilla, MDDr. Zorrilla has extensive experience in clinical and behavioral research on women living with HIV as well as in vaccine research. She has been involved in such activities for the past 24 years. She was the Co-PI for the WITS Puerto Rico (the first natural history study of pregnant women living) funded by NICHD. Dr. Zorrilla was involved in both the Pediatric and the Adult ACTG (AIDS Clinical Trials Group) Units in Puerto Rico. At the Adult ACTG, she was a member of the initial Women’s Research Committee, which dealt with the sensitive issues of women’s access to protocols and protocol design in the early years of the epidemic.
Irma Febo, MD Dr. Febo is a Director and Principal Investigator of the UPR Pediatric HIV/AIDS Research Program, and Site Leader of the IMPAACT CRS of the UPR-CTU. As part of her involvement as faculty member of the UPR School of Medicine, she hasdeveloped several in-training seminars and a workshops on adolescent issues for health care professionals. In addition, she was part of the Microbicide study MTN004 Study Team and a member of the MTN004 Protocol Safety Review Team. She wasalso member of the ATN096 protocol team, the protocol’s main objectives wereto identify newly HIV infected Latino Youth and link them to care. She was the P.I. for the Puerto Rico site of Project Gel, a study directed to evaluate acceptability and safety of a microbicide in young MSM, also the PI for HIV Home Testing for high risk MSM. Finally, she has been given services to HIV infected Pediatric and adolescent population for over 25 years.
Georgina Silva, Ph.DDr. Silva is an assistant professor at Nova Southeastern University, College of Pharmacy in the Sociobehavioral and Administrative Pharmacy Department. She received her Ph.D. in Public Health from Florida International University in 2014. Since early in her career, she has been interested in HIV and HIV prevention efforts. She has worked with human sexuality, sexual education, and HIV/AIDS prevention, mainly in Puerto Rico. As part of her doctoral program, she conducted a qualitative study among a cohort of first-generation perinatally HIV-infected youth in Puerto Rico. Findings have been published in different peer-review journals. She teaches Ph.D. and PhramD level courses on public health and adolescent health. She participates as co-investigator in different research projects funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Silvia E. Rabionet, Ed.DDr. Rabionet Earned a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University. She is an academic research fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. She has devoted considerable amount of time to the development curricular innovation and faculty development programs to include social and behavioral components. She is involved in four areas of scholarship: (1) Research Development and Mentoring in HIV/Health Disparities, (2) Training and Research Capacity Building, (3) Socio-behavioral Aspects of Pharmacy, and (4) History of the Health Sciences.
Glorisa Canino, Ph.D Dr. Canino is a Professor at the School of Medicine, Deanship of Academic Affairs, and the Director of the Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine. Throughout the last 30 years Dr. Canino has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator of innumerable research grants funded by several Institutes of the National Institute of Health. She has published substantially in the area of psychometrics and adaptation of instruments to the Latino culture, has published in adult and child psychiatric epidemiology, asthma and mental health services research, the genetics and epigenetics of pediatric asthma and health disparities among Latinos.
Linnette Rodriguez, Ph.DDr. Rodríguez-Figueroa has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Epidemiology, both from the University of Puerto Rico. She also has a Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiological Science degree from the University of Michigan. Since 1999, she is a Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health. She is also the Coordinator of the Epidemiology Academic Programs (MPH and MS) at the School. Dr. Rodríguez is currently involved in research in the areas of suicidal behavior, substance use, and other risk behaviors among adolescents. She has several publications in a variety of topics, and many scientific presentations. Standing out among the honors and distinctions she has received are several related to leadership, excellence in research, academic achievement, and collaboration in special projects at the University of Puerto Rico.
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Juana Rivera, MD, MPHDr. Rivera was the former Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department and is now a mentor since her resignation as Chair. Dr. Rivera has a MPH in Hospital Administration and is co-director of the newest program for group prenatal Care (funded through CMS). As Residency Program Director for the past decade Dr. Rivera has experience mentoring residents and junior investigators during their training years.
José Martinez, Ph.DDr. Martinez is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at Carlos Albizu University at San Juan, Puerto Rico. During the past 30 years he have been collaborating extensively in several research projects with Hispanic children/adolescents and their mothers in Puerto Rico and US. He participated in two major island-wide epidemiologic surveys of adults and children in Puerto Rico and was also part of the research team that participated in a population based study of psychiatric disorders in children/adolescents in Puerto Rico. He is an associate researcher of the Multidisplinary Clinic for AIDS of the Research Center for Maternal-Infant Studies (CEMI-Spanish Acronym) of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.
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