University of Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Marcela Ferrada, M.D., earned her medical degree at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. When she came to the United States, she completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she also spent one year as chief resident. She completed a dual fellowship in critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health and in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In 2015, Dr. Ferrada was diagnosed with relapsing polychondritis, a rare rheumatologi condition. She changed her career focus to studying this disease. She completed a rheumatology fellowship at the NIH’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Dr. Ferrada is board certified in internal medicine, critical care, infectious diseases, and rheumatology.
Dr. Ferrada was pivotal in recruiting and evaluating patients on the first available prospective cohort of patients with relapsing polychondritis at NIH and has become a world leader in this disease. She was also part of the team that discovered VEXAS syndrome. She currently works at University of Maryland.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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