Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine

Faculty profile

Bertha Corina Escobar Newball, MD
	Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Human Anatomy Adjunct Faculty, School of Public Health Adjunct Faculty, School of Allied Health Professions Professions Facilitator, Faculty of Religion • University faculty profile • Research interests • Publications E-mail: bescobar@llu.edu

Research interests

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Selected publications

1. Escobar-Poni B and Poni ES (2006) The Role of Gross Anatomy in Promoting Professionalism: A Neglected Opportunity! Clinical Anatomy 19 (5): 461 - 467.
2. Poni E, Granero R, Escobar B, and Issacura C (1998). Recuperación Funcional Neurológica y de Calidad de Vida en Pacientes Tratados con Nimodipina luego del Primer Infarto Cerebral (Quality of Life and Neurological Functional Recovery of Patients treated with Nimodipine after the First Ever Cerebral Infarction). Archivos Venezolanos de Farmacología y Terapéutica. Vol 17(2): 115 - 119.
3. Dasgupta C, Escobar-Poni B, Shah M, Duncan J, and Fletcher WH (1998). Misregulation of Connexin43 (a1) gap junction channels and congenital heart defects. In: Gap Junction-Mediated Intercellular signaling in Health and Disease. Editors: John Wiley & Sons, (2).
4. Poni E, Escobar B, and Granero R (1995). Riesgo de muerte a los 4 años de un primer Infarto cerebral: Estudio prospectivo en Barquisimeto, Estado Lara, Venezuela (Four-year death risk after first cerebral infarction: Prospective study in Barquisimeto, Lara State, Venezuela). Original paper. Investigación Clinica 36(4): 163 - 172.
5. Poni E, Granero R, Escobar B (1995): Cambios de la función neuromuscular y de las manifestaciones depresivas en los pacientes sobrevivientes al Infarto cerebral luego de seis meses de tratamiento con nimodipine (Changes in the neuromuscular function and in the depressive manifestations, after six-month treatment with nimodipine, of patients surviving a cerebral infarction). Archives Venezolanos de Farmacología y Terapeútica; 14(2): 74 - 80.
6. Poni E, Escobar B, and Granero R (Caracas 1994). Tratamiento crónico con nimodipine en el accidente cerebro-vascular (Chronic treatment with nimodipine in cerebrovascular accident). Original paper. Medicina Interna 6:85 - 92.
7. Poni E, Mendoza E, Granero R, Balza M, Escobar B, Alvarez N (Caracas 1990): Estudio del valor predictivo de los parámetros microbiológicos y citopatológicos de las muestras tomadas por expectoración vs aspiración transtraqueal en la infección respiratoria baja de origen bacteriano: Informe preliminar (Study of the predictive value of microbiologic and cytopathologic parameter of samples taken by expectoration vs transtracheal aspiration in lower respiratory infections of bacterial origin: preliminary report). Medicine Interna 6(3-4): 126 - 134.