YVANA CESPEDES
Associate Dermatopathologist
Board Certification: Dermatology, Dermatopathology.
Education: M.D. National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL- Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Fellowships: Dermatopathology and Dermatology – University of Miami School of Medicine Jackson Memorial Hospital
Dr. Cespedes is a board certified physician in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Dermatopathology. Dr. Cespedes graduated medical school at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru. Dr. Cespedes completed a five year residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Washington Hospital Center, Washington D.C. and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, FL, where she also served as chief resident. Posteriorly, Dr. Cespedes became a Dermatopathology fellow at the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology, University of Miami School of Medicine.
Dr. Cespedes has been in practice for over 20 years working in national leading laboratories in the Dermatopathology field including: Cleveland Clinic in Florida, Labcorp, Aurora Diagnostics and Sonic Health Care. Dr. Cespedes’ dermatopathology expertise has been an asset in the correlation between the clinical findings observed in patients at the time of their evaluation and the histologic findings observed in their skin biopsies under the microscope.
Dr. Cespedes has served as a faculty member of the International Society of Dermatopathology and recently joined StrataDx to serve as an expert in Digital Dermatopathology.
Dr. Cespedes loves traveling with her family and she finds joy being a board member of the Peruvian American Medical Society (PAMS), a humanistic organization that focuses on providing human and material resources that reach remote, medically-undeserved communities of Peru.