Miguel N Rivera, MD
Clinical and Laboratory Pathology
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- Spanish
- English
Gender
MaleAbout Miguel N Rivera
Dr. Rivera is a board certified pathologist who directs a research laboratory at the MGH Department of Pathology and the MGH Cancer Center. He also serves as attending physician in the clinical molecular diagnostics laboratory at MGH. Dr. Rivera received an A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 1996 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2001. He completed his Anatomic Pathology residency at Brigham and Wome?s Hospital and a fellowship in Molecular Diagnostics at the Harvard Combined Program. During his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Rivera identified the tumor suppressor gene WTX which is implicated in both tumor formation and stem cell biology. His research currently focuses on the connections between cancer and normal developmental processes and on the use of genomic technologies to identify pathways that are active in tumors and that may serve as therapeutic targets.
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Pathology, 2007
- Medical Education: Harvard Medical School, 2001
Board Certifications
- Anatomic Pathology: American Board of Pathology, 2005
Insurance
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH