Roberto Ruiz-Cordero

Roberto Ruiz-Cordero (1983-IDK) was born in Puebla, Mexico. He moved to Mexico City to pursue a career in medicine and graduated from the University of La Salle in 2009. Dr. Ruiz-Cordero trained in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami followed by specialized training in Cytopathology, Molecular Genetic Pathology, and Hematopathology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Pathology and a John A. Watson faculty scholar at the University of California San Francisco. His research interest combines Molecular Cytopathology and Global Cancer to develop novel molecular workflows to improve cancer diagnostics in resource-constrained settings to address health care disparities.