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Dr. Marco Ruiz

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
2235 Poydras street, Office 227, New Orleans, LA 70112
 

Brief Biography:


Born and raised in Peru. After receiving his degrees in medicine and public health, Dr. Ruiz completed a residency in internal medicine at San Juan City Hospital in Puerto Rico, a fellowship in infectioous disease at LSU, and a fellowship in geriatrics at the University of Illinois. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and holds additional certifications in Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine. He is also board elegible in Palliative and Hospice Medicine.

 

Academic positions:


  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans Section of Infectious Diseases
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans Section of Geriatric Medicine
  • Associate Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
  • Reviewer and consultant national guidelines for management of infections in the nursing home setting. American Medical Director Association
  • Faculty of Stanley Scott Cancer Center Consultant . Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
 

Research interests:


Infectious Diseases and Cancer (Virus and oncogenes)

Geriatric Oncology

Non-AIDS defining malignancies

Public Health in developing countries

 

Any other information:


  • Postgraduate Certificate  International Health University of Cumbria/Lancaster United Kingdom  
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Health Care, University of Leeds School of Medicine, Leeds, England,
  • Master of Public Health, University of Leeds, Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds, England ,
  • Member of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Programs- American Geriatrics Society  

  • Member of the American College of Physicians

  • Member of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Nominee for the Aesculapian Teaching Award Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans 2011

    Nominated  in the “Guide to Best American Physicians 2010”

  • Nominated in the “Guide to America’s Top Physicians 2009”

  • Nominated in the Cambridge Who is Who 2009 list

  • Scholarship Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine 2004. Health policy rotation. April-May 2004. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Washington DC

  • Scholarship British Council 1996. Award for postgraduate training in the United Kingdom

  • Ad hoc Reviewer of Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal 2009

    Ad hoc Reviewer HIV clinician Journal 2009

    Ad hoc Reviewer The International Journal of Environmental, cultural, economic and social  sustainability 2010

    Ad hoc Reviewer Journal of the American Sciences Medical Journal , 2010

    Ad hoc Reviewer AIDS Care Journal 2011

    Ad hoc Reviewer Cancer Management and Research 2011

    Ad hoc Reviewer Future Medicine, United Kingdom 2011

    Editorial Board Member Journal of Virology and Mycology: Infectious Diseases, 2011

    Editorial Board Member Journal of AIDS research

  • Member of The Science Advisory Board 2011

 

 

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