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Research Background

Dr. Martínez Ojeda obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School in San Juan, PR. Following Pediatric residency in the University Pediatric Hospital in San Juan, PR, she was Chief Resident at San Juan City Hospital. There she later became an attending physician and was in charge of the Pediatric Residency Academic Affairs. She then moved to Boston for a fellowship in Clinical Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Upon graduation she started as attending physician in the Division of Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has two specialty clinics: Neurofibromatosis and Brain Development and Genetics.

Selected Publications

  1. Frugoni F, Dobbs K, Felgentreff K, Aldhekri H, Al Saud BK, Arnaout R, Ali AA, Abhyankar A, Alroqi F, Giliani S, Ojeda MM, Tsitsikov E, Pai SY, Casanova JL, Notarangelo LD, Manis JP, A novel mutation in the POLE2 gene causing combined immunodeficiency, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Available online 11 September 2015, ISSN 0091-6749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2015.06.049.
  2. Wooderchak-Donahue W, VanSant-Webb C, Tvrdik T, Plant P, Lewis T, Stocks J, Raney JA, Meyers L, Berg A, Rope AF, Yetman AT, Bleyl SB, Mesley R, Bull DA, Collins RT, Ojeda MM, Roberts A, Lacro R, Woerner A, Stoler J, Bayrak-Toydemir P. 2015. Clinical utility of a next generation sequencing panel assay for Marfan and Marfan-like syndromes featuring aortopathy. Am J Med Genet Part A 9999A:1–11.
  3. Francois-Dominique J, Ho ES, Martinez-Ojeda M, Darras BT, and Khwaja OS. Case of Infantile Onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 5 J Child Neurol 0883073812454331, first published on August 21, 2012 doi:10.1177/0883073812454331

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