Maria D. Rodriguez Celin, MD

Specialties

Genetics

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Languages Spoken:

English

Mercedes Rodriguez Celin, M.D., is a medical geneticist at Shriners Children’s Chicago who specializes in skeletal dysplasia – a group of rare genetic conditions affecting children’s bones and joints – as well as osteogenesis imperfecta, arthrogryposis and general genetics in pediatric orthopedics.

Dr. Rodriguez Celin is originally from Argentina, where she earned her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires and completed a four-year pediatrics residency. She further specialized in growth and development at Garrahan Pediatric Hospital and the Argentine Ministry of Health.

She served for six years as an attending physician in the skeletal dysplasia clinic at Garrahan Pediatric Referral Hospital, focusing on clinical care and research in osteogenesis imperfecta and other skeletal dysplasias. From 2017 to 2022, Dr. Rodriguez Celin served as a clinician-researcher at Shriners Children's Chicago and completed an HHS/NIDILRR postdoctoral fellowship in Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training through a multidisciplinary program at Marquette University, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. During this time, she participated in multiple multicenter studies examining functional outcomes, surgical care and pain in individuals with osteogenesis imperfecta.

She completed her pediatric internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2022–2023) and her residency in medical genetics and genomics at the Medical College of Wisconsin (2023–2025).

Pediatric Care

Specialty

Genetics
Orthopedics

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More About Me

Education and Training

Academic Positions and Locations

Medical College of Wisconsin
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Awards and Honors

2022-2023: Outstanding Resident of the Year, University of Illinois at Chicago
2016: Best Research Work, Validation of the Argentine Spanish version of the transition readiness questionnaire for adolescents with chronic conditions, 9th Argentine Congress of Integral Adolescent Health
2012: Best Research Work, School Dysfunction in children with chronic disease, 2nd Argentine Congress of Pediatric Disability

Scholarly Activities

Academic Works and Presentations

Presentation/Consultations: Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation National Conference; Pain Plenary Session, and medical consultation for individuals with OI (7/2024)
Presentation: OI TeleEcho series; Assessing and Quantifying Pain ‘s impact on QoL in children with OI (6/2024)
Presentations: Osteogenesis Imperfecta Federation Europe; Balancing life with OI, How to assess pain, pros and cons of different tools, and Multicenter Study of Pain: Results of the BBDC study (6/2023)
Presentation: 10th International Conference on Children’s Bone Health; Mechanisms of Bone Pain. Bisphosphonates and other treatments for pain relief in children (7/2022)
Presentation: 21st Annual Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation Scientific Meeting; Bisphosphonates and their role in management of pain (4/2022)
Presentation/Town Hall: Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation OI Clinic and Bone Health Town Hall; Pain Management in OI – The elephant in the room – what more can we do? (4/2022)