Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi Explained

Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi
Honorific Suffix:MD, MSc, PhD, FFTM RCPS (Glasg)
Native Name:Alberto Enrique Paniz Mondolfi
Birth Date:12 April 1976
Birth Place:Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation:Scientist, medical doctor, microbiologist, pathologist

Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi MD, MSc, PhD, FFTM RCPS (Glasg) (born April 12, 1976) is a Venezuelan pathologist, epidemiologist, and molecular medicine researcher.[1] Currently he is a pathologist and assistant professor in New York City and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Hospitals and Mount Sinai Hospital. Also, he is the Academic Director and Founder of The Venezuelan Science Incubator (incubadorave.org), a group focused on infectious diseases research and awareness based in Venezuela.[2]

History

Paniz-Mondolfi was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1976. His mother is a pediatrician and his father an architect. His grandfather, Edgardo Mondolfi Otero, a biologist and zoologist. Two of his uncles were physicians with special ambitions in the field of sciences and research. His childhood was shared between Caracas and Kenya.

Paniz-Mondolfi has a master's degree in parasitology and tropical diseases; he did international fellowships in microbiology, molecular genetics, and skin disease. He also did a second medical residency in the United States in pathology. He isolated and described a new species of parasite that had infected a NY resident, and a new mycobacterium that sickened two people in Connecticut. He earned an MD and PhD and studied under Jacinto Convit the leprosy researcher.[3]

He was a pathologist at the IDB Biomedical Research Institute in Barquisimeto, Venezuela until 2019 when he fled to the United States. He is the founder of the Venezuelan Science Incubator, an independent health research organization.[4] Paniz-Mondolfi is assistant professor of pathology, molecular and cell-based medicine at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine.[5] He is also affiliated with the Yale Cancer Center. In 2020 he focused his research on the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects the virus had on minority children.

His research findings have been published in several medical journals including: the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases,[6] The American Association for the Advancement of Science,[7] and The Lancet.[8]

Scholarly works

Awards and recognition

In 2017 Paniz-Mondolfi was awarded the Jose Gregorio Hernandez Award from the Venezuelan National Academy of Medicine[15]

In 2019 he was awarded with the "Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury" Science Prize in Biology from Polar Enterprises Foundation in Venezuela.[16] [17] [18]

In 2020 he was named as one of the People of Action Around the Globe by the Rotary Club.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dr. Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi. U.S. News & World Report.
  2. Web site: Venezuelan Science Incubator. June 7, 2021. en-US.
  3. News: Moyer. Melinda Wenner. September 9, 2020. 'A Fearless Virus Hunter' Tackles a Coronavirus Mystery in Children. en-US. The New York Times. September 15, 2020. 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: February 16, 2019. Venezuela epidemics: From measles to malaria with Dr. Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi. September 15, 2020. Outbreak News Today. en-US.
  5. Web site: Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi Mount Sinai – New York. September 15, 2020. Mount Sinai Health System. en-US.
  6. Web site: Vaccine-preventable diseases surge in crisis-hit Venezuela. September 15, 2020. EurekAlert!. en.
  7. Web site: November 4, 2014. Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi. September 15, 2020. Science AAAS. en.
  8. Web site: Torres. Andrea. Weddle. Cody. May 15, 2019. Public hospital workers in Venezuela fear future deadly blackouts. September 15, 2020. WPLG. en.
  9. March 1, 2020. Clinical, laboratory and imaging features of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. en. 34. 101623. 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101623. 1477-8939. 7102608. 32179124. Rodriguez-Morales. Alfonso J.. Cardona-Ospina. Jaime A.. Gutiérrez-Ocampo. Estefanía. Villamizar-Peña. Rhuvi. Holguin-Rivera. Yeimer. Escalera-Antezana. Juan Pablo. Alvarado-Arnez. Lucia Elena. Bonilla-Aldana. D. Katterine. Franco-Paredes. Carlos. Henao-Martinez. Andrés F.. Paniz-Mondolfi. Alberto. Lagos-Grisales. Guillermo J.. Ramírez-Vallejo. Eduardo. Suárez. Jose A.. Zambrano. Lysien I.. Villamil-Gómez. Wilmer E.. Balbin-Ramon. Graciela J.. Rabaan. Ali A.. Harapan. Harapan. Dhama. Kuldeep. Nishiura. Hiroshi. Kataoka. Hiromitsu. Ahmad. Tauseef. Sah. Ranjit. Latin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19 Research (LANCOVID-19).
  10. Paniz‐Mondolfi. Alberto. Bryce. Clare. Grimes. Zachary. Gordon. Ronald E.. Reidy. Jason. Lednicky. John. Sordillo. Emilia Mia. Fowkes. Mary. 2020. Central nervous system involvement by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Journal of Medical Virology. en. 92. 7. 699–702. 10.1002/jmv.25915. 1096-9071. 7264598. 32314810.
  11. Truman. Richard W.. Singh. Pushpendra. Sharma. Rahul. Busso. Philippe. Rougemont. Jacques. Paniz-Mondolfi. Alberto. Kapopoulou. Adamandia. Brisse. Sylvain. Scollard. David M.. Gillis. Thomas P.. Cole. Stewart T.. April 28, 2011. Probable Zoonotic Leprosy in the Southern United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 364. 17. 1626–1633. 10.1056/NEJMoa1010536. 0028-4793. 3138484. 21524213.
  12. Paniz-Mondolfi. Alberto E.. Rodriguez-Morales. Alfonso J.. Blohm. Gabriela. Marquez. Marilianna. Villamil-Gomez. Wilmer E.. July 22, 2016. ChikDenMaZika Syndrome: the challenge of diagnosing arboviral infections in the midst of concurrent epidemics. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 15. 1. 42. 10.1186/s12941-016-0157-x. 1476-0711. 4957883. 27449770 . free .
  13. Paniz‐Mondolfi. Alberto E.. Jaimes. Oscar Reyes. Jones. Luisana Dávila. 2007. Lobomycosis in Venezuela. International Journal of Dermatology. en. 46. 2. 180–185. 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2007.02937.x. 17269972. 11334710. 1365-4632. free.
  14. Grillet. Maria E. Hernández-Villena. Juan V. Llewellyn. Martin S. Paniz-Mondolfi. Alberto E. Tami. Adriana. Vincenti-Gonzalez. Maria F. Marquez. Marilianna. Mogollon-Mendoza. Adriana C. Hernandez-Pereira. Carlos E. Plaza-Morr. Juan D. Blohm. Gabriella. May 1, 2019. Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. en. 19. 5. e149–e161. 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30757-6. 30799251. 73475841 . 1473-3099.
  15. Web site: ASPPH Florida Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Award from Venezuelan National Academy of Medicine. September 15, 2020. www.aspph.org.
  16. Web site: Danae Alejandra. Rivero Curra. November 14, 2019. Fundación Empresas Polar entregó la XIX edición del Premio Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury. June 7, 2021. Analitica.com. es.
  17. Web site: November 6, 2019. Anuncian a los científicos ganadores del premio Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury. June 7, 2021. El Universal. es.
  18. Web site: November 17, 2019. Galardonan a científicos venezolanos con Premio Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury. June 7, 2021. El Nacional. es.
  19. Web site: People of action around the globe. September 15, 2020. www.rotary.org. en.

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