Carmen Deseda
Puerto Rican pediatrician
Carmen C. Deseda is a Puerto Rican pediatrician. She is a medical officer and commander in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Deseda served two terms as the state epidemiologist in the Puerto Rico Department of Health, first from 1994 to 2001, and later from January 2017 to March 2020.
Education
In 1976, Deseda completed a bachelor of science in biology, magna cum laude, at University of Puerto Rico. She earned a doctor of medicine from Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC) in 1979. In 1980, at University of California, Los Angeles, Deseda studied pediatric infectious diseases under James Cherry and parasitology under Marietta Vogue. In 1980, she took a medical course in epidemiology in the parasitic division at the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Deseda completed a pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1981. From 1982 to 1983, she was a pediatric resident at San Juan City Hospital.
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