Academic Appointments
Professor of Surgical Pathology and Surgical Techniques at Medical-Surgical Nursing at the University Ibero-Americana
Assistant Professor of Surgical Medicine at the Autonomous University of Baja California School of Medicine – she teaches young physicians and surgical nurses the fundamentals of surgery and clinical medicine
Titles
Master Surgeon in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (MSMBS) – Designation by Surgical Review Corporation since 2019
Surgeon of Excellence in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (SOEBMS)
Licensures & Certifications
General Surgery Board Certificate: Available Upon Request
Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Board Certificate: Available Upon Request
Mexican Medical License Number: Available Upon Request
Surgeon Diploma Number: Available Upon Request
Publications
Rodríguez, G., Varon, J.: Clevidipine: A unique agent for the Critical Care practitioner. Crit Care & Shock 2006;9:9-15.
Raffaella Lombardi, Gabriela Rodriguez, Suet Nee Chen, Crystal M. Ripplinger, Wenwen Li, Igor R. Efimov, and Ali J. Marian: Treatment With Anti-oxidant N-acetylcysteine Attenuates Cardiac Hypertrophy And Fibrosis And Improves Susceptibility To Cardiac Arrhythmias In The ß-myosin Heavy Chain-Q403 Transgenic Rabbit Model Of Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation, Oct 2007; 116: II_177.
Gabriela Rodriguez, Grazyna Czernuszewicz, Yanli Tan, Neal Kleiman, Guillermo Torre-Amione, James T Willerson, Simon Sims, and Ali J Marian: Phenotypic Plasticity of LMNA Mutations in Cardiovascular System Includes Isolated Cardiac Progeria, Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathies, Atrial Fibrillation, Conduction Defects, and Degenerative Valvular Diseases. Circulation, Oct 2008; 118: S_883 – S_884.
Lombardi R, Dong J, Rodriguez G, Bell A, Leung TK, Schwartz RJ, Willerson JT, Brugada R, Marian AJ.: Genetic fate mapping identifies second heart field progenitor cells as a source of adipocytes in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Circ Res. 2009 May 8;104(9):1076-84. Epub 2009 Apr 9.
Suet Nee Chen, Raffaella Lombardi, Gabriela Rodriguez, and Ali J. Marian: Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Caused by the Myozenin 2 Mutations Involves Calcineurin-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms
Circulation, Oct 2008; 118: S_323.
Lombardi R, Rodriguez G, Chen SN, Ripplinger CM, Li W, Chen J, Willerson JT, Betocchi S, Wickline SA, Efimov IR, Marian AJ.: Resolution of established cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis and prevention of systolic dysfunction in a transgenic rabbit model of human cardiomyopathy through thiol-sensitive mechanisms. Circulation. 2009 Mar 17;119(10):1398-407. Epub 2009 Mar 2.
Publications (cont.)
Omar Barakat, Gabriela C. Rodriguez, Isaac Raijman, Paul M. Allison, Claire F. Ozaki, Robert P. Wood: The clinical Value of Hepatocyte Growth factor in Patients with Peri-ampullary cancer Before and After Pancreaticoduodenectomy. Digestive Disease Week 50’th annual meeting. May 30- June 3, 2009. Chicago, IL.
Omar Barakat, Gabriela C. Rodriguez, Paul M. Allison, Javier Nieto, Claire F. Ozaki, Robert P Wood: Plasma Hepatocyte Growth Factor assay as a tumor marker for malignant liver tumors.
Digestive Disease Week 50th Annual meeting. May 30-June 3, 2009. Chicago, IL.
Suet Nee Chen, Gabriela Rodriguez, Grazyna Czernuszewicz, Un-Ho Jin, Jianping Jin, and Ali J Marian: TRIM63, Encoding MuRF1, is a Novel Gene for Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation, 23 November 2010; 122: A21194.
Omar Barakat, Gabriela C Rodriguez, Isaac Raijman, Paul Allison, Javier Nieto, Claire F Ozaki, Robert P Wood, David A Ingler: Clinical Value of Plasma Hepatocyte Growth Factor Measurement for the Diagnosis of Periampullary Cancer and Prognosis After Pancreaticoduodenectomy. J Surg Onc 2010; 102:816-820.
Danny Alexander, Raffaella Lombardi, Gabriela Rodriguez, Matthew M. Mitchell, Ali J. Marian: Metabolomic distinction and insights into the pathogenesis of human primary dilated cardiomyopathy. Eur J Clin Invest. 2010 Dec 14. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2362.2010.02441.x.
Publications (cont.)
Gabriela Rodriguez, Aijin Z. Starr, Grazyna Czernuszewicz, Amit Manhas, Ahmad Alhariri, James T Willerson, Craig J Reist, Karen Piper, Kenneth Mahaffey, Al J Marian and Neil S Kleiman: Determinants of plasma vitamin D levels in patients with acute coronary syndromes. Eur J Clin Invest. 2011 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2362.2011.02540.x.
Gabriela Rodriguez, Tomomi Ueyama, Takehiro Ogata, Grazyna Czernuszewicz, Yanli Tan, Gerald W. Dorn II, Roberta Bogaev, Katsuya Amano, Hidemasa Oh, Hiroaki Matsubara, James T. Willerson and Ali J. Marian: Molecular Genetic and Functional Characterization Implicate Muscle-Restricted Coiled-Coil Gene (MURC) as a Causal Gene for Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circ Cardiovasc Genet June 3, 2011.
Alessandra Ruggiero, Suet Nee Chen, Raffaella Lombardi, Gabriela Rodriguez, Ali J Marian: Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Caused by Myozenin 2 Mutations Is Independent of Calcineurin Activity. Cardiovasc Res. 2012 Sep 17;: 22987565.
Omar Barakat, Shahrzad Abbasi, Gabriela Rodriguez, Jessie Rios, R. Patrick Wood, Claire Ozaki, Laurie S. Holley, and Polly K. Gauthier: Use of Decellularized Porcine Liver for Engineering Humanized Liver Organ. Journal of Surgical Research 173, e11–e25 (2012).
Alessandra Ruggiero, Suet Nee Chen, Raffaella Lombardi, Gabriela Rodriguez, and Ali J. Marian: Pathogenesis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by myozenin 2 mutations is independent of calcineurin activity. Cardiovascular Research (2013) 97, 44–54.
Gabriela Rodriguez, Arturo Martinez, Marco Viramontes-So, Leopoldo Sanmiguel, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Jose Limon, Lucia Chavez, Leonel Gradillo, Ariel Ortiz Lagardere: A New Bariatric Procedure: The Stomach Sparing Gastric Sleeve™️. Surgical Technology International XXVII Bariatric Surgery (2015)1-7.
