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L1992-96  Epidemióloga, Investigadora Asociada, Programa de Plaguicidas, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

1995-97    Profesora, Curso intensivo en epidemiología ambiental, Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Reuniones anuales en México, Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica

1996-05    Epidemióloga, Investigadora, Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Fundaciones FUCODOCSA y FUNIN. Costa Rica

2005-08    Senior Research Fellow en la Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Estados Unidos.

2008- 2015 Epidemióloga, Investigadora, Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Fundación FUNIN. Costa Rica

2016-   Consultora Internacional para la División de Epidemiología y Genética del Cáncer (DCEG), Instituto Nacional de Cáncer de los Estados Unidos.

Publicaciones representativas: 

• Rodríguez, A. C., Schiffman, M., Herrero, R., Wacholder, S., Hildesheim, A., Castle, P. E., Solomon, D., Burk, R., & Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste Group (2008). Rapid clearance of human papillomavirus and implications for clinical focus on persistent infections. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 100(7), 513–517.
• Rodríguez, A. C., Schiffman, M., Herrero, R., Hildesheim, A., Bratti, C., Sherman, M. E., Solomon, D., Guillén, D., Alfaro, M., Morales, J., Hutchinson, M., Katki, H., Cheung, L., Wacholder, S., & Burk, R. D. (2010). Longitudinal study of human papillomavirus persistence and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2/3: critical role of duration of infection. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 102(5), 315–324.
• Kreimer, A. R., Rodriguez, A. C., Hildesheim, A., Herrero, R., Porras, C., Schiffman, M., González, P., Solomon, D., Jiménez, S., Schiller, J. T., Lowy, D. R., Quint, W., Sherman, M. E., Schussler, J., Wacholder, S., & CVT Vaccine Group (2011). Proof-of-principle evaluation of the efficacy of fewer than three doses of a bivalent HPV16/18 vaccine. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 103(19), 1444–1451.
• Schiffman M, Castle PE, Jeronimo J, Rodríguez AC, Wacholder S. Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer. Lancet 2007;370(9590):890-907.
• Herrero, R., Castle, P. E., Schiffman, M., Bratti, M. C., Hildesheim, A., Morales, J., Alfaro, M., Sherman, M. E., Wacholder, S., Chen, S., Rodriguez, A. C., & Burk, R. D. (2005). Epidemiologic profile of type-specific human papillomavirus infection and cervical neoplasia in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The Journal of infectious diseases, 191(11), 1796–1807.
• Hildesheim, A., Herrero, R., Wacholder, S., Rodriguez, A. C., Solomon, D., Bratti, M. C., Schiller, J. T., Gonzalez, P., Dubin, G., Porras, C., Jimenez, S. E., Lowy, D. R., & Costa Rican HPV Vaccine Trial Group (2007). Effect of human papillomavirus 16/18 L1 viruslike particle vaccine among young women with preexisting infection: a randomized trial. JAMA, 298(7), 743–753.
• Schiffman M, Herrero R, Desalle R, Hildesheim A, Wacholder S, Rodriguez AC, Bratti MC, Sherman ME, Morales J, Guillen D, Alfaro M, Hutchinson M, Wright TC, Solomon D, Chen Z, Schussler J, Castle PE, Burk RD. The carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus types reflects viral evolution. Virology 2005;337:76-84.
• Castle, P. E., Schiffman, M., Herrero, R., Hildesheim, A., Rodriguez, A. C., Bratti, M. C., Sherman, M. E., Wacholder, S., Tarone, R., & Burk, R. D. (2005). A prospective study of age trends in cervical human papillomavirus acquisition and persistence in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The Journal of infectious diseases, 191(11), 1808–1816.
• Herrero, R., Quint, W., Hildesheim, A., Gonzalez, P., Struijk, L., Katki, H. A., Porras, C., Schiffman, M., Rodriguez, A. C., Solomon, D., Jimenez, S., Schiller, J. T., Lowy, D. R., van Doorn, L. J., Wacholder, S., Kreimer, A. R., & CVT Vaccine Group (2013). Reduced prevalence of oral human papillomavirus (HPV) 4 years after bivalent HPV vaccination in a randomized clinical trial in Costa Rica. PloS one, 8(7), e68329.
• Hildesheim, A., Herrero, R., Castle, P. E., Wacholder, S., Bratti, M. C., Sherman, M. E., Lorincz, A. T., Burk, R. D., Morales, J., Rodriguez, A. C., Helgesen, K., Alfaro, M., Hutchinson, M., Balmaceda, I., Greenberg, M., & Schiffman, M. (2001). HPV co-factors related to the development of cervical cancer: results from a population-based study in Costa Rica. British journal of cancer, 84(9), 1219–1226..