Rolando Herrero Acosta
Senior Visiting Scientist
Early Detection Prevention and Infections
Speciality: Epidemiology
Year | Degree | Major | Institution | Country/Town |
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1996 | PhD | Epidemiology | Karolinska Institute | Sweden / Stockholm |
1987 | Medical Oncology Specialist | Medical Oncology | Universidad de Costa Rica | Costa Rica / San José |
1981 | MD | Medicine | Universidad de Costa Rica | Costa Rica / San José |
Current Research Projects
Multicentric human papillomavirus screening and triage study (the ESTAMPA study)
Rolando Herrero, Maribel Almonte, Catterina Ferreccio, Jose Jerónimo, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Raúl Murillo, Gloria Sánchez
HPV Vaccine Trial in Costa Rica (CVT)
Rolando Herrero, Allan Hildesheim, Paula González, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Aimee Kreimer,
Gastrointestinal cancer prevention study by predicting atrophic gastritis and colorectal lesions (GISTAR study)
Marcis Leja, Jin Young Park, Inga Upmace, Victor Pasechnikov, Olof Nyren, Rustam Abdulhakov, Anna Belkovets, Vladislav Tsukanov, Sergey Pimanov
Selected Publications
Kreimer AR, González P, Katki HA, Porras C, Schiffman M, Rodriguez AC, Solomon D, Jiménez S, Schiller JT, Lowy DR, van Doorn LJ, Struijk L, Quint W, Chen S, Wacholder S, Hildesheim A, Herrero R; CVT Vaccine Group (2011) Efficacy of a bivalent HPV 16/18 vaccine against anal HPV 16/18 infection among young women: a nested analysis within the Costa Rica Vaccine Trial. Lancet Oncology Vol. 12 : 862-70
Herrero R, Wacholder S, Rodríguez AC, Solomon D, González P, Kreimer AR, Porras C, Schussler J, Jiménez S, Sherman ME, Quint W, Schiller JT, Lowy DR, Schiffman M, Hildesheim A, Costa Rica Vaccine Trial (CVT) Group (2011) Prevention of persistent Human Papillomavirus infection by an HPV16/18 vaccine: a community-based randomized clinical trial in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Cancer Discovery Vol. 1 : 408-19
Greenberg ER, Anderson GL, Morgan DR, Torres J, Chey WD, Bravo LE, Dominguez RL, Ferreccio C, Herrero R, Lazcano-Ponce EC, Meza-Montenegro MM, Peña R, Peña EM, Salazar-Martínez E, Correa P, Martínez ME, Valdivieso M, Goodman GE, Crowley JJ, Baker LH (2011) 14-day triple, 5-day concomitant, and 10-day sequential therapies for Helicobacter pylori infection in seven Latin American sites: a randomised trial. The Lancet Vol.378 : 507-14
Herrero R, Hildesheim A, Rodríguez AC, Wacholder S, Bratti C, Solomon D, González P, Porras C, Jiménez S, Guillen D, Morales J, Alfaro M, Cyr J, Morrisey K, Estrada Y, Cortés B, Morera LA, Freer E, Schussler J, Schiller J, Lowy D, Schiffman M; Costa Rica Vaccine Trial (CVT) Group (2008) Rationale and design of a community-based double-blind randomized clinical trial of an HPV 16 and 18 vaccine in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Vaccine Vol. 26 : 4795-808
Herrero R, Castle PE, Schiffman M, Bratti MC, Hildesheim A, Morales J, Alfaro M, Sherman ME, Wacholder S, Chen S, Rodriguez AC, Burk RD (2005) Epidemiologic profile of type-specific human papillomavirus infection and cervical neoplasia in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The Journal of Infectious Diseases Vol. 191 : 1796-807
Scientific Societies Membership
Colegio de Medicos y Cirujuanos, Costa Rica
International Papillomavirus Society
HPV International Conference Scientific Committee
Prizes, Honours
Honor Roll, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1975 to 1982
Alumno de Honor, Medical School, Second average, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1982
Premio Institucional en Investigacion Cientifica 1990, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social
Fred L. Soper Award, 1991@, for significant contributions to the literature on Health in Latin America, Pan American Health Foundation
Member of the Costa Rican National Academy of Sciences, 2002