Dr. Herrera is an internationally renowned nephropathologist with over 30 years of experience in renal pathology. Having received his doctor of medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, he has over 25 years of basic research on renal damage. He has served as professor and chairman of the department of pathology at both St. Louis University and Louisiana State University – Shreveport.
Dr. Herrera sits on multiple national panels and has been the invited guest lecturer in over 260 domestic and international venues. He has authored more than
120 articles and chapters in renal pathology.
He is an expert in renal damage in plasma cell dyscrasias. In 2007 he published, “The Kidney in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias,” a comprehensive, state-of-the-art view on the subject. He has acquired international prominence as a result of his innovative studies in the field of renal amyloidosis. His research interests also include the effects of monoclonal light chains on the kidney and immunolabeling at the ultrastructural level.
Dr. Herrera is a member of multiple professional societies, including the American Society of Nephrology, the International Society of Nephrology and the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology. He is councillor (future president) of the Renal Pathology Society, and he is president-elect of the Society for Ultrastructural Pathology.
He has received the “Tatiana T. Antonovych, M.D. Award” from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology/American Registry of Pathology for contributions to renal pathology. From the University of South Alabama Health Sciences Center he has received the “Distinguished Scientist Award” for contributions to science. |