Faculty and Staff

Maria Fernanda Carpintero, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Carpintero is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the division of rheumatology. She is a clinical investigator with a focus on systemic autoimmune diseases especially Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). She has participated as principal investigator in multiple clinical trials and her research focus is on identifying information that may ultimately be useful...
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Cecilia Chung, M.D., MPH

Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Cecilia Chung- pharmacogenomic and pharmacoepidemiology in rheumatic diseases. Cecilia P. Chung, MD, MPH, is a physician-scientist with training in rheumatology, clinical pharmacology, and pharmacoepidemiology. Her laboratory is funded by R01 awards from NIAMS and NIGMS. Following her training in Peru and Canada, she earned an M.P.H. degree from Vanderbilt University and...
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Kelly Corbitt, D.O.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Corbitt is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the division of rheumatology at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has a passion for clinical medicine and teaching students, residents and fellows. While she treats all diseases within the field of rheumatology, she does have an interest in connective tissue disease associated interstitial lung...
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Jose Pablo Garcia, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Jose Pablo Garcia is a rheumatologist who completed his fellowship at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School. He earned his medical degree from Florida Atlantic University and completed his internal medicine residency at George Washington University. Dr. Garcia will be seeing patients across multiple University of Miami locations, including Kendall, Lennar,...
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Carlos Lozada, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Profile
Biography: Carlos J. Lozada completed a B.A. in Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. He pursued his residency in Internal Medicine at North Shore University Hospital/Cornell University Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and completed his Rheumatology Fellowship at New York University...
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Ami P. Purohit, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical

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Estefania Quesada-Masachs, M.D., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Biography: Dr. Quesada-Masachs received her MD degree at University of Barcelona (UB). She completed the residency in Rheumatology and a 2-year training program in Pediatric Rheumatology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Spain), where she worked as a consultant until early 2018. She did a fellowship at Istituto Giannina Gaslini (Italy), Center of Excellence in Pediatric Rheumatology...
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Elaine C. Tozman, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Alexis Katz, D.O.

Staff Physician/Voluntary Faculty
Biography: Dr. Alexis Katz, D.O., is a staff physician of the Division of Rheumatology within the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami. She trained in internal medicine and rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Katz’s work has focused on myositis, vasculitis, and osteoporosis. Dr. Katz received the Aadel Askari Humanitarian Award for compassionate and empathetic care during her fellowship training.