Celia Pantoja-Rojas, MD
Hospitalist
Biography
Dr. Celia Pantoja-Rojas was born in Lima, Peru, where she attended and graduated from the Medical School of Cayetano Heredia University in 1999.
After graduation, she worked for the Peruvian Ministry of Health in the Peruvian National Tuberculosis Program while she also conducted research projects on tuberculosis, evaluating treatment adherence, treatment failure, and tuberculosis relapse in vulnerable and impoverished communities. She considers this experience one of the most fulfilling times in her early medical career.
Dr. Pantoja also worked as a Fellow at the High-Altitude Research Institute, affiliated with Cayetano Heredia University. She was involved in research projects on chronic lung disease associated with firewood smoke exposure, conducting on-site visits to Andean communities in Peru. She also worked as a General Practitioner in private practice.
Because of these experiences, she presented several coauthored papers at the American Thoracic Society.
She completed her year of Rural Medicine Service in Chosica, Peru, in 2003. She also pursued master's degree studies in Social Projects Management at Cayetano Heredia University. During this time, she also prepared for the USMLE exams, which she completed in 2003.
Dr. Pantoja trained in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, now BronxCare, affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, from 2004 to 2007.
After completing residency training, Dr. Pantoja moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she worked as a primary care physician for Peoples Community Health Center while raising her son. She moved to the Rio Grande Valley in 2010 to practice as a Hospitalist; she met and married her husband in the RGV.
Dr. Pantoja joined the School of Medicine at UTRGV as an Associate Clinical Professor in July 2016. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and has been board-certified in Obesity Medicine since 2019.
In 2023, she joined the newly minted Internal Medicine Residency Program at DHR Health as associate program director and assumed the role of Program Director in July 2026. She continues to work as a Hospitalist running the Inpatient Academic service.
Dr. Pantoja spends her free time cooking, walking, swimming, taking photographs, traveling the world, and caring for her cats.
Locations
Edinburg
Edinburg, TX 78539
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