Maria Villagomez, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Maria Villagomez graduated as general surgeon in her home country Bolivia, where she worked in rural medicine before receiving a Mombusho Japan scholarship to do a PhD in Nagasaki University Hospital in the Dermatology Department. After 5 years of study in Japan, she moved to Toronto Canada, where she continue her research in University of Toronto, obtaining a Post-doctoral fellowship in the Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology department, where she worked with murine stem cells. In 2010 she moved to the Caribbean and has been teaching, histology, clinical skills and dermatology. She joined the AUC team on 2022.