Dr. Giancarlo Tabaro Marrero MD

What is your hometown?

• Puerto Rico.

Where did you attend medical school?

• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

What other educational credentials do you have?

• Bachelors in Biology.
• Minor in Chemistry.

What are your particular clinical interests and why?

• I am interested in Dermatology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Musculoskeletal disorders because it is rewarding to treat complex multi-system disorders that can be debilitating to the patient’s quality of life and daily function.

What inspired you to pursue a career in family medicine?

• Family medicine provides the privilege to know patients better than anyone else to better advocate for them and the needs of the community.

Why did you choose the Community Based Family Medicine Residency program?

• I enjoy serving underserved populations because it is rewarding to empower those with less resources to have access to healthcare, so their health won’t get in the way of their goals. Similarly, I am interested in public health because an individual’s health is greatly affected by the community that they live in. A community-based family medicine program provides more opportunities to learn about the needs of the community to better serve and care for the individuals living in it.

Have undertaken any research in the past?

• Retrospectively comparing skin cancer detection in the masked region before and during COVID-19. UWSMPH Department of Dermatology (January 2021-September 2022).

• Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates among patients at Access Community Health Centers. UWSMPH Access Community Health Centers Quality Improvement Project (January 2019-November 2019).

Please provide details of any previous Poster Presentations you have done in the past:

• Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) Annual Scientific Meeting Poster Session (09/09/2022).

  • Project title: “Retrospectively comparing skin cancer detection in the masked region before and during COVID-19”.

• UWSMPH Quality Improvement Project Poster Session (12/18/19).

  • Project title: “Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates among patients at
    Access Community Health Centers”.

• UWSMPH Shapiro Research Program Poster Session (11/25/2019)

  • Project title: “Outcomes Following Medical and Surgical Treatments of Pilonidal Disease: A Single Institution’s Ten-Year Review”.

• CWRU Intersections: Source Poster Session (12/08/2017).

  • Project title: Down regulation of the MAPK and PI3K pathways in EGFR-driven TKI Resistant Lung Adenocarcinoma through the activation of the tumor suppressor protein phosphatase 2A.

• The Young Scientist Foundation (YSF) Summer Research Program Poster Session (08/01/2017)

  • Project title: “Retrospectively comparing skin cancer detection in the masked region before and during COVID-19”.

Do you have any publications?

• Warm-Reacting Anti-Lewis A Antibody: A Case Report. Published in MAR Pathology on June 1, 2023. 

• Outcomes Following Medical and Surgical Treatments of Pilonidal Disease: A Single Institution’s Ten-Year Review. Published in Surgery Open Science on April 20, 2022. 

• Direct activation of PP2A for the treatment of tyrosine kinase inhibitor-resistant lung adenocarcinoma. Published in JCI insight on February 21, 2019

Please outline any honors or awards you have received in the past:

• UWSMPH Path of Distinction in Research (PODR) (Summer 2022).
• UWSMPH Shapiro Research Grant (Summer 2019).
• UWSMPH Phase 1 Preceptorship Quality Improvement Project Award (Fall 2019).
• The Young Scientist Foundation (YSF) Scholarship (Summer of 2016 and Summer 2017).
• CWRU Deans High Honors List (2014-2018).

What are your hobbies and interests outside of medicine?

• I enjoy playing soccer (used to play for the Puerto Rican national team), ping-pong, chess, bowling, dancing salsa, trying new cuisines, cooking, running, and working out in the gym.

Dr. Giancarlo Tabaro Marrero MD