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I have formal education in Epidemiology and in Education and Curriculum. My master and doctoral level dissertations were directly related with HIV/AIDS research. Over the last 18 years, I have contributed as an HIV researcher in the management of data, in statistical methods, and in research support cores from a multidisciplinary point of view. Since 1995, I have been working in the Retrovirus Research Center (RRC) HIV Data Core. Initially, I was recruited as the RRC Epidemiologist and subsequently, I became the Co-Principal Investigator of the HIV Data Core. I collaborated in the development and implementation of the procedures manual and in the day to day activities of the HIV Data Core. I have won twice the third prize for original research in the junior investigator category of the Glaxo Wellcome Research Awards. Between 2004 through 2009, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded my first research project as principal investigator entitled: “A Supportive Model for HIV Risk Reduction in early adolescents”. I have expertise in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health prevention and education curriculum directed to HIV injecting drug users and HIV risky adolescent’s population. I was part of the PR-CCHD Data Core of the Puerto Rico Center for the Study of HIV Health Care Disparities (PR CCHD); a collaborative multi-institutional effort between the three principal schools of medicine in Puerto Rico during 2003-2009. In 2009, as recommended by the External Advisory Committee, I submitted an infrastructure proposal to develop the Data Management and Statistical Research Support Unit (DMSRSU), which goal is to enhance the level of scientific research excellence and data management for RCMI, UCC, and other potential researchers. I was granted as the Principal Investigator of the DMSRSU (2009-2014), Co-Investigator of the RRC and Director of the Educational and Behavioral Unit from the RCMI-UCC Cancer Research Unit. I am strongly committed to the accomplishment of the DMSRSU goals and I have initiated training in the development of strategies of longitudinal statistical analysis. Also, I continue to be involved in the data analysis, papers publications, presentations, consulting process, and faculty development activities. As PI of the DMSRSU, I am particularly involved in the recruitment and training of new personnel and in the implementation of a revised procedure manual. Also, I have been teaching the Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Research Methods courses at the Sacred Heart University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine and I am also an Associate Professor at the Internal Medicine Department at UCC. Since 2010, I am the Co-Leader of the Research Design Biostatistics and Ethics Unit (DBE) of the Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC) and since July 2012 has served as the DBE Training Component coordinator. As the Co-Leader of the DBE, I had been actively involved in the review of Pilot Projects submitted at the PR-CTRC Pilot Project Program and in the DBE database. Also I provided support as consultant for researchers.
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