A craniofacial surgeon and pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Angela Rodriguez is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. She has a special interest in craniofacial anomalies, cleft lip and palate, distraction osteogenesis and microtia. In 2004, she was awarded an American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASMS) “Cranio” fellowship. She is a member of The American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association and the Tissue Engineering Society, where she serves as a reviewer for their scientific journal, Tissue Engineering.

Dr. Rodriguez has a particular interest in cartilage and tissue engineering and has given numerous seminars and presentations to professional organizations on these topics. She was awarded a Plastic Surgery Education Foundation Grant for basic science research on “The Use of a Hydrogel in the Engineering of Skin” and received the William Potsic Price Basic Research Award (1st Place) as the author of “New Cartilage Tissue Engineered from Pediatric Auricular Cartilage” at the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology Annual Meeting in 1997.

Dr. Rodriguez earned her medical degree from Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia. She completed her internship and residency in surgery as well as a plastic surgery fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Rodriguez is also fellowship trained in craniofacial surgery by Stanford University. She spent two years at Harvard University as a research fellow.

Publications

Kamil SH, Rodrigruez A, Vacanti CA, Eavey RD, Vacanti MP. “Expansion of the number of human auricular chondrocytes: recycling of culture media containing floating cells.” Tissue Eng. 2004; 10(1-2):139-44.
PMID: 15009939

Arévalo-Silva CA, Cao Y, Weng Y, Vacanti M, Rodríguez A, Vacanti CA, Eavey RD. “The effect of fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta on porcine chondrocytes and tissue-engineered autologous elastic cartilage.” Tissue Eng. 2001; 7(1):81-8.
PMID: 11224926

Rodriguez A, Cao YL, Ibarra C, Pap S, Vacanti M, Eavey RD, Vacanti CA. “Characteristics of cartilage engineered from human pediatric auricular cartilage.” Plast Reconstr Surg. 1999; 103(4):1111-9.
PMID: 10088494

Cao YL, Lach E, Kim TH, Rodríguez A, Arévalo CA, Vacanti CA. “Tissue-engineered nipple reconstruction.” Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998; 102(7):2293-8.
PMID: 9858161

Cao Y, Rodriguez A, Vacanti M, Ibarra C, Arevalo C, Vacanti CA. “Comparative study of the use of poly(glycolic acid), calcium alginate and pluronics in the engineering of autologous porcine cartilage.” J Biomater Sci Polym Ed. 1998; 9(5):475-87.
PMID: 9648028