Division: Clinical Trials

Working on clinical trials for Symptomatic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease and in registries for Chronic Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Disease and Asthma Patients initiating Dupixent.

Divisions: Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine

Research in:
- Pediatric infectious diseases
- Enhanced Surveillance of Febrile Pathogens

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Women’s Health
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicine

Research in:
- The pathophysiology of inflammation within the gastrointestinal tract
- The transition of chronic inflammation to dysplasia and cancer
- The role of stress in colitis and endometriosis
- Gut microflora in gastrointestinal diseases

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Women’s Health
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center, RCMI
School of Medicine

Research in:
- Women’s Cancer
- Biobehavioral influences in cancer progression
- Immune tumor microenvironment
- Pre-clinical cancer therapeutics

Divisions: Clinical Trials
Programs: CAIMED

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Health Disparities
Programs: RCMI
School of Dental Medicine

Research in:
- Oral health in cancer patients

Division: Clinical Trials

Working on clinical trials for Symptomatic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease and in registries for Chronic Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Disease and Asthma Patients initiating Dupixent.

Divisions: Behavioral Sciences
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Primary Care Psychology
- Integrated Primary Care
- Program Development
- Business Administration

School of Medicine

Research in:
- Genetics
- Ethics in Research
- Autism
- Metabolic disorders
- Behavioral disorders

Divisions: Neurosciences
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research Interest:
- Neurofeedback

Divisions: Neurosciences
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center, RCMI
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Health Psychology
- Cancer Health Disparities
- Psycho-oncology
- Cultural adaptation of Behavioral Interventions
- HIV felt stigma and treatment adherence
- Clinical and translational research designs
- Outreach/community engagement research

Divisions: Clinical Trials

Working on clinical trials for Symptomatic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease and in registries for Chronic Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Disease and Asthma Patients initiating Dupixent.

Divisions: Clinical Trials
School of Medicine

Research Areas and Research Areas of Interest:
- Rare pediatric pulmonary diseases
- Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
- Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
- Ciliary Motion
- High Speed Videomicroscopy Analysis
- Ciliopathies

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials

Myeloproliferative Disorder Hematology-Oncology

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials, Women's Health
School of Medicine

Collaborating on two Phase 3 study of Sacituzumab Govitecan and Pembro in patients with previously untreated, locally advanced, inoperable, or metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer whose tumors express PD-L1 or do not express PD-L1.

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials

Research Interest:
-Working on a clinical trial to prevent chemoradiotherapy- induced severe oral mucositis in patients with oropharyngeal cancer.

Leader of Relief Efforts Division

Research in:
- Improving access to among vulnerable population
- Telemedicine Implementation
- Health Education

Divisions: Cancer Biology
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center

Research in:
- Breast cancer genetics and genomics
- Population genetics
- Genetics of cancer health disparities
- Hereditary cancers and cancer risk assessment

Divisions: Health Disparities
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Sexual and Gender Minorities (SGM) Health
- SGM Biopsychosocial Health Disparities
- SGM Health Barriers
- SGM Stigma
- Minorities Mental Health

Divisions: Cancer Biology, Women's Health (Chair)
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicine

Research in:
- Endometriosis and pelvic pain
- Infertility
- Women’s health
- Stress
- Gynecologic cancers
- Biobanking

School of Medicine

Anatomical Sciences

Research in:
- Academic Medicine
- Education Research

Divisions: Community Outreach, Health Disparities, Neurosciences
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center, RCMI
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Health Disparities Research
- HIV felt stigma
- Community Engagement Research/Community Outreach
- Mental Health Programs in General Hospitals

Divisions: Clinical Trials

Research in Stent Graft System for percutaneous deep vein arterialization for the treatment of late-stage critical limb ischemia.

Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center, RCMI
Public Health Program
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- HIV & HPV Prevention
- Social Epidemiology
- Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
- Implementation Science
- Sexual and Gender Minorities

Divisions: Clinical Trials

Works in two research projects for Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer and Non- Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer.

Divisions: Cancer Biology
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicine

Contact Prinipal Investigator

Research in:
- DNA repair capacity in breast, prostate cancer and Lynch Syndrome
- Epigenetic regulation of DNA repair genes in breast and prostate cancer
- Exosomal microRNAs plasma detection to improve breast cancer diagnosis
- Mitochondrial dysfunction and rescue in cancer

Divisions: Community Outreach
Programs: Alliance, RCMI
Public Health Program

Research in:
- Epidemiology
- Autism
- Community outreach
- COVID19 testing

Divisions: Infectious Diseases
RCMI
School of Medicine

Director of Biomedical Science

Research in:
HIV/AIDS
Neuropathology

School of Medicine
Pediatrics

Divisions: Neurosciences
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

President of Puerto Rico Board of Psychology Examiners

Research In:
- Mental Health Division
- Primary Care Psychology
- Family Interventions
- Severe Mental Illness
- Addictions

Divisions: Crinical Trials

Currently working on a clinical trial assessing the impact of Inclisiran on major adverse cardiovascular events in participants with established cardiovascular disease.

Divisions: Neuroscience
Programs: RCMI
School of Medicine

Research in:
- Molecular and synaptic changes underlying PTSD-related rodent behaviors
- Animal models of PTSD
- The role of the immune system in PTSD-related rodent behaviors
- The role of developmental stress in PTSD-related rodent behaviors
- Preclinical therapeutics to reduce PTSD-related rodent behaviors

Pediatric Orthopedics

Divisions: Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine

Research Areas of Interest:
- Immunology Innate Immune
- Response Neutrophil Biology
- Neutrophil Extracellular Traps
- Infectious Diseases
- Respiratory Diseases

Divisions: Community Outreach, Neuroscience
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Community Engagement
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Mental Health
- Health Psychology
- Mental Health Programs in General Hospital

Divisions: Health Disparities, Women's Health
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Co- Principal Investigator Health Equity Research Lab (HERLab)

Research in:
- Transgender Health
- Cancer Prevention
- Multilevel Interventions
- Health Equity
- Gender Minoritized Populations
- Social Determinants of Health

Divisions: Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine

Associate Dean of Biomedical Sciences & Research

Research in:
- HIV/AIDS
- Arboviruses

Co- Principal Investigator Health Equity Research Lab (HERLab)

Research interests:
- Health Equity
- Implementation Science
- Multimorbidity
- Serious Mental Illness
- Stigma

Divisions: Neuroscience
Programs: RCMI
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Environmental risk factors in child development
- School readiness
- Psychological distress and inflammation
-Mental health and microbiome
- Obesity

Divisions: Neurosciences
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Occupational stress
- Counterproductive work behaviors
- Workplace bullying
- Occupational Health Psychology
- Psychological well-being at work

Divisions: Cancer Biology
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicine

Research Interests:
- Urologic Caner

Divisions: Cancer Biology
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicint

Research in:
Women’s Health and Reproductive Biology/Human Papillomavirus-HPV
Endometriosis

Divisions: Cancer Biology
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicine

Research in:
- The study of how dysregulated Rb/E2F pathway drives triple-negative breast cancer
- Mitotic kinases regulated by E2F transcription factors as therapeutic targets against metastatic triple-negative breast cancers
- Roles of E2F-regulated mitotic kinases in cancer health disparities in black and Hispanic women with breast cancer
- The role of centrosome amplification-driven chromosome instability in breast cancers

Divisions: Neuroscience
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program

Research in:
Child anxiety and trauma

Divisions: Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine

Research Areas of Interest:
- Pneumococcal serotypes causing invasive disease in Puerto Rico

Division: Cancer Biology
Programs: Moffitt Cancer Center
School of Medicine

Research in:
- Molecular cancer biology, tumor suppressors, and oncogenes
- Lung cancer genetics in Puerto Ricans

Divisions: Neuroscience
School of Medicine

Research in:
- Dysregulation of neuronal communication in the reward circuit due to cocaine addiction in the rat model
- Identify new targets to prevent relapse
- Effects of aerobic exercise on cocaine-induced neurophysiological changes

Dean of Research & President of Ponce Research Institute

Divisions: Neuroscience
School of Medicine
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Research in:
- Neuroscience/Learning and memory
- Radiation-induced brain damage

Divisions: Neuroscience
School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Pediatric Neurologist Chairperson