Fabiola Quintero-rivera MD, FACMG

Dr. Quintero-Rivera received her M.D. and training in clinical dysmorphology from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia in 2002, completing her last year of medical schooling on scholarship at Harvard Medical School. After completing her degree, she stayed on at the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and at Harvard Medical School as a Co-Investigator in the Developmental Genome Anatomy Project (DGAP). In 2004, she won a competitive MGH clinical research award for her work on the identification of a gene (NFIA) important for the development of the corpus callosum. That same year, she also joined the Clinical Cytogenetics Fellowship program at Harvard.

Dr. Quintero-Rivera is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) and the American Society for Clinical Pathology. In 2007, Dr. Quintero-Rivera joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2015, She completed a Fellowship in Medical Education David Geffen School Of Medicine at UCLA. She was given accelerated promotions to Associate Professor Step 1 and Step 3, in 2012 and 2015, respectively, in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA, as well as maintaining her position as Associate Director of the UCLA Clinical and Molecular Cytogenetics Laboratory and Director of the UCLA Clinical Cytogeneticists Scientist Training Program. In 2019 she was promoted to Clinical Professor.