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Roberto Jose Romero-galue

Roberto Jose Romero-galue MD, DSc

Maternal Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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Professor Roberto Romero, MD is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University and Chief of the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Romero received his undergraduate degree in 1967 from San Vincente de Paul in Maracaibo Venezuela and his medical degree, magna cum laude, in 1974 from the University del Zulia, also in Maracaibo. He did his residency at Yale University, Connecticut, and was chief resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology between 1978 and 1979. In 1979 he did a Fellowship in Gynecological oncology at Yale and in 1982 joined the Yale faculty as assistant professor. At the same time, he also finished another fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine, under the supervision of Professor John C. Hobbins. In 1992 he became director of the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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