Carmen Zorrilla, Ph.D

HIV

Carmen Zorrilla, Ph.D

Dr. Carmen D. Zorrilla is the Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine and Principal Investigator and Director of Maternal Infant Studies Center (CEMI). She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Puerto Rico, medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and specialty from the University Hospital (University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine). She has worked as a faculty member of the OB-GYN Department for over 27 years. She started as an Instructor and was promoted to Assistant, Associate, and then Full Professor, a position she has held since 1998.

Dr. Zorrilla is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. She established the first longitudinal clinic for Women Living with HIV in Puerto Rico in 1987. It evolved as a consequence of a universal prenatal HIV screening program established in 1987 at a time when no treatments were available for HIV. Dr. Zorrilla and her colleagues believed there were benefits in knowing the HIV serostatus, particularly during pregnancy.

In 1974 Dr. Carmen Zorrilla told her friend she wanted to go to medical school. He escorted her to a college counselor, who told her women really shouldn't study medicine. She applied and got in. Dr. Zorrilla is deeply community-oriented intent on educating her patients to take charge. She has even taken her teen daughter to National Symposiums to expose her not only to her HIV/AIDS work but also to the women that she works for and to their issues. Know more...

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