Francisco G. La Rosa, MD

Education:

• Bachelor Degree: National University Federico Villarreal, School of Medicine, Lima, Peru (12/22/1975).

• Medical Doctor Degree: National University Federico Villarreal, School of Medicine, Lima, Peru (12/22/1975)

Postdoctoral Education:

• Residency in Clinical Pathology, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru (01/1976-12/978)

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology, Department of Microbiology/Immunology, UCD-School of Medicine, Denver, CO (07/1981 - 08/1985)

• Residency in Pathology (AP/CP), University of Colorado HSC, Department of Pathology (07/1992 - 06/1995)

• American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (1995)

• Research-Fellow in Lung Cancer (NCI), Department of Pathology, University of Colorado, HSC, Denver, CO (07/1995 - 06/1996)

• Fellow in Urologic Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Colorado, HSC, Denver, CO (2002-2004)

• Teaching Scholar Fellow UCD-School of Medicine (2005-2007)

      INTERNATIONAL:

• Ex Vice-Chair and current Webmaster, American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Latin-American and Caribbean Chapter http://atalacc.org (03/2007 to date)

• Honorary Professor (10/2003), National University Federico Villarreal, Lima, Peru: Teleconferences in prostate pathology, diabetes and basic immunology (2002 to date).

• President, Telepathology Consultant, PC (not for profit) http://www.telepathology.com

• Consultant in telepathology, Georgian Telemedicine Union (Republic of Georgia) (2003 to date).

• Contributor to the discussion of telepathology cases in the Autopsy electronic forum of the Spanish Society of Pathology, and in the Pathology discussion forum of the Uninet University Network http://pat.uninet.edu

• Consultant in telepathology, PathoIndia (2001 to date)

• Medical Informatics Consultant and Webmaster, School of Medicine, National University Federico Villarreal, Lima, Peru: http://www.medicinaunfv.org (06/2002 to date)

• Expert Panel Member, Telepathology India http://www.telepathology.org.in/panel.html 01/2001

• Telepathology Moderator, PathoIndia http://www.pathoindia.com/tele.html  (02/2000 to date)

Research Activities:

• Pathology Informatics and Telepathology

• Butcher Award for “Using Immerse Virtual Reality for Visualization of the Male Pelvis and Prostate Gland”

• Prostate Cancer Research

• Digital Image Analysis

• Digital 3-dimensional reconstruction of organs and tissues

• Transplantation Immunology: Endocrine cultured allografts (past)

PUBLICATIONS:  

    WEB PUBLICATIONS:

• La Rosa FG. Store and Forward Telepathology:
  http://www.telepathology.com/articles/telepathology. Last accessed June 3, 2005.

• La Rosa FG. High resolution and low cost static telepathology:
  http://www.telepathology.com/articles/hrlcst; 6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences. February 14-25, 2000. Last accessed June 3, 2005.

Office Location:

UCD-School of Medicine/UCH, Anschutz Medical Campus

12800 East 19th Avenue

Building P18 - Research Complex I

5th Floor, Room 5222A

Aurora, Colorado 80010

Phone: (303) 724-3782

Cell:    (303) 549-4450

eFax:  (413) 410-4489

e-mail: francisco.larosa@ucdenver.edu

Mailing Address:

University of Colorado Denver - School of Medicine

Department of Pathology

12800 East 19th Avenue, Room P18-5124

Campus Mail Stop 8104, P.O. Box 6511

Aurora, Colorado 80045-0508