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Sierra Pacific Arthritis and Rheumatology Centers
Fresno, CA, United States
Dr. Rodriguez-Pla is a rheumatologist who is currently working in the largest private rheumatology group in the central valley in California.
She earned her medical degree from the University of Navarra in Spain and completed rheumatology training in Barcelona (Spain). She got her Ph.D. from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, working on giant cell arteritis.
Her interest in vasculitis led her to pursue post-doctoral training in the U.S. from 2003 to 2007, as a visiting post-doctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University. During her last two years at Johns Hopkins, she was funded through a Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)/Vasculitis Foundation (VF) fellowship. She also received a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) degree at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In addition, she worked in lupus research at Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas, before completing a clinical fellowship in rheumatology at Boston University, where her interest in scleroderma increased. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA.
She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Rheumatology Division at the University of Arizona in Tucson and at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, before becoming the Rheumatology Division Chief at UCSF Fresno in September 2022.
She is a physician-scientist, and her main interests are vasculitis and scleroderma.
0703: Cardiovascular Disease-Related Mortality in Primary Systemic Vasculitis
Sunday, November 12, 2023
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
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