Roberto A. Garcia, MD
Dr. Roberto Garcia is an Associate Attending Pathologist with special interest and expertise in the diagnosis of neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions of the bones, joints and soft tissues with additional experience in the field of immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics.
Dr. Garcia received his medical degree from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He trained in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Harlem Hospital Center followed by a Fellowship in Orthopedic Pathology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute. He has a special interest in the education of medical students, pathology residents and fellows and orthopedic residents and fellows.
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Appointments
Associate Attending Pathologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Specialty
Special Expertise
Orthopedic Pathology
Surgical Pathology
Immunohistochemistry
Languages
Spanish
Insurance Information
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Education
Residency
Fellowship
Certification
Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology, 1999
State Licensure
New York
Selected Publications
Ge X, Tsang K, He L, Garcia RA, Ermann J, Mizoguchi F, Zhang M, Zhou B, Aliprantis AO. NFAT restricts osteochondroma formation from entheseal progenitors. JCI Insight 2016;1(4):e86254. PMID: 27158674
Garcia RA, Demicco EG, Klein MJ, Schiller AL. Bones, Joints and Soft Tissue. In: Strayer DS, Rubin R, eds. Rubin’s Pathology: Clinicopathological Foundations of Medicine. 7th Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health; 2015:1305-1380.
Garcia RA, Platica CD, Greco MA, Steiner GC. Myofibroblastic differentiation of stromal cells in giant cell tumor of bone: an ultrastructural and immunohistochemical study. Ultrastruct Pathol. 2013 May;37(3):183-90. PMID: 23650991
Garcia RA, Inwards CY, Unni KK. Benign bone tumors-recent developments. Semin Diagn Pathol 2011; 28(1):73-85. PMID: 21675379
Hoch BL, Garcia RA, Smalberger GJ. Chondroid Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor: A Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Analysis of 5 New Cases. Int J Surg Pathol 2011 Apr;19(2):180-7. PMID: 21087985
Wen YH, Koeppen H, Garcia R, Chiriboga L, Tarlow BD, Peters BA, Eigenbrot C, Yee H, Steiner G, Greco MA. Epidermal growth factor receptor in osteosarcoma: expression and mutational analysis. Hum Pathol 2007 Aug;38(8):1184-91. PMID: 17509661
Guo H, Garcia RA, Perle MA, Amodio J, Greco MA. Giant cell tumor of soft tissue with pulmonary metastases: pathologic and cytogenetic study. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2005 Nov-Dec;8(6):718-724. PMID: 16328671
For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.