Staff Clinician
National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases
Dr. Cuellar-Rodriguez is an infectious diseases clinician-researcher. She serves as the director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Consult Service, within the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in Bethesda, MD. Her main interest are the prevention and management of infections in immunocompromised patients, in particular transplant recipients and primary immune deficiency patients, as well as medical education.
She received her medical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Mexico), and her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, UK). She completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship at the at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ) in Mexico City, followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. In 2009, she joined NIAID as a clinical fellow where she completed an advanced infectious diseases fellowship (academic/research track) in infections in immunocompromised host. She was later promoted to staff clinician in 2011. In 2014, Dr. Cuellar Rodriguez returned to the INCMNSZ and served as the head of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Section, within the Department of Infectious Disease, where she remained until 2019. She then returned to NIAID in the Division of Intramural Research and is now the director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Consult Service.