José Gabriel Rigau Pérez, M.D., M.P.H.
José Gabriel Rigau Pérez, M.D., M.P.H.
Education and Degrees (Chronological Order)
College University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico B.S. Chemistry. 1968‑71
Medical school Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts M.D., 1971‑75
Internship and Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Junior Residency PL 1 and 2, 1975‑77
Fellowship Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Communicable Disease Service, Los Angeles Coun y‑University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, 1979‑81
Master in Public Health Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, 1987‑88
Current Position Retired
Languages Spanish, English - excellent; French - for conversation, reading
Board Certification American Board of Pediatrics American Board of Preventive Medicine
Uniformed Service US Public Health Service (USPHS), 1977-1979, 1981-2005
Retired with the rank of Captain (Permanent O-6)
Honors and Awards
1971: B.S. Magna cum laude
1971-75: Fundación Ángel Ramos Scholarship for medical education
1975: Rose Seegal Prize, Harvard Medical School
1979: US Public Health Service (USPHS) Foreign Duty Service Ribbon (also 1981, 1985)
1980: Dedication of the 1980 Seminar on Nosocomial Infections in Puerto Rico
1986: President's Award of the Puerto Rico Public Health Association
1987: USPHS Career Development Award
1990: USPHS Commendation Medal for exemplary performance in pregnancy and infectious disease projects, and support of vaccine development activity in NICHD.
1993: USPHS Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal for service to the Office of the Surgeon General
1995: Service to the Public - Dengue Branch, for service during the 1994 dengue epidemic in Puerto Rico Dedication of the Fourth Convention of the Puerto Rico Association of Epidemiologists
1996: DHHS Secretary’s Group Award for Distinguished Service - Leptospirosis (Nicaragua) outbreak team
1997: USPHS Commendation Medal for exemplary performance in directing the evaluation of the CDC’s community education programs for dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention in Puerto Rico
1998: CDC Group Award for International Health – O‘nyong-nyong fever (Kenya) outbreak team
1999: DHHS Secretary’s Group Award for Distinguished Service - Dengue Branch
JH Nakano Citation for an outstanding scientific paper, by NCID staff in 1998 (see Meltzer et al., below)
2000: USPHS Unit Commendation - CDC/ATSDR Y2K Preparation and Final Testing Group
2001: Invited speaker at the EIS 50th Anniversary Celebration, CDC, Atlanta, GA, April 22, 2001 USPHS Outstanding Service Medal for continuous outstanding leadership in the successful investigation of landmark epidemics of initially unknown etiology in different parts of the world.
2002: Elected to membership in the American Epidemiological Society and the Academia
Puertorriqueña de Historia de la Medicina
2003: USPHS Unit Commendation - Hawaii Dengue Epidemic Response Team CDC/ATSDR Honor Award for Contributions to Minority Health Research and Surveillance - Dengue Branch CDC/ATSDR Group Honor Award for extraordinary efforts in investigating West Nile virus transmission through blood transfusion and organ JH Nakano Citation for an outstanding scientific paper, by NCID staff in 2002 (see Winch et al., below)
2005: USPHS Outstanding Unit Citation – West Nile Surveillance and Response Team, 2002-2003 Elected to membership in the Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia
Accomplishments of national or international significance
(As medical epidemiologist in the US Public Health Service)
1977-1979 – Second Puerto Rican EIS Officer
Detection and investigation of the first botulism outbreak in Puerto Rico
Translation of CDC’s Isolation Techniques for Use in Hospitals and publication by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Training of the first generation of hospital infection control nurses and regional epidemiology nurses in Puerto Rico
Conducted a nosocomial infection prevalence study at the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) Hospital
1981-1983 – Investigation of the Toxic Oil Syndrome epidemic in Spain
Investigation of the largest chancroid (Hemophilus ducreyi) outbreak in the United States up to that date
1983-1987 – First EIS-trained “state” epidemiologist for Puerto Rico
Initiated computerized disease surveillance tabulations in the Puerto Rico Department of Health
First author of the first epidemiologic analysis on AIDS cases in Puerto Rico
Provided the first educational lectures on the use and significance of HIV antibody tests in Puerto Rico
First (and so far only) comprehensive evaluation of health conditions in Puerto Rico (in comparison to the Healthy People 1990 goals)
Identification of a major cause of Salmonella in infants in Puerto Rico (contact with pet turtles)
1988-1991 – Assisted in the development of the first treatment trials for AIDS in children (IVIG, AZT) and the first acellular pertussis vaccine.
Expanded recruitment of Puerto Rico clinical centers and patients for pediatric AIDS treatment trials
1991-2005 – Clarification of the dengue hemorrhagic fever definition in the PAHO and World Health Organizations dengue prevention guidelines
Investigation of the “Fiebre maldita” (leptospirosis) outbreak in Nicaragua
Provided the first lectures in Puerto Rico on diseases potentially associated with bioterrorism (anthrax, botulism, smallpox, plague)
Professional Experience
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service
March 1991 to March 2005: Medical Epidemiologist, Dengue Branch, CDC
Duties: Conduct dengue surveillance for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; develop new and effective surveillance methods for dengue. Medical consultant for biosafety.
Accomplishments: Descriptive and analytic epidemiologic studies of the frequency and distribution of dengue in Puerto Rico (see publications); consultant to the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO) for the production and international presentation of new guidelines for dengue prevention, treatment, and control; streamlined dengue surveillance forms, mechanisms, and computer routines; team leader for the CDC investigation of an outbreak of pulmonary hemorrhage due to leptospirosis, Nicaragua, 1995; in charge of disease surveillance and medical education during the 1994 and 1998 dengue epidemics in Puerto Rico; team leader for the CDC investigation of an outbreak dengue hemorrhagic fever, El Salvador, 2000, and the first epidemic of dengue in Hawaii since 1945 (2001); member of CDC team that provided assistance to Louisiana in the West Nile Virus outbreak of 2002 in the US (the largest meningoencephalitis outbreak ever reported); consultant for dengue prevention and investigation for multiple countries throughout the world (e.g., Vietnam, 1999; Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Argentina, 2000); supervised projects by 7 Latino students, 3 of which have been published in peer-reviewed journals, and 4 have received awards from professional organizations in Puerto Rico or the United States; invited member of the Health group in the “Puerto Rico 2025” Commission.
National Institutes of Health, USPHS
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
June 1988 - March 1991: Intramural researcher (Epidemiology); Epidemiology Branch, Division of Prevention Research
Duties: Design and conduct epidemiologic studies on maternal and child health problems.
Accomplishments: Assistant project officer in the landmark NICHD trial of IVIG in HIV-infected children. Organizer, and editor of proceedings, of the NICHD Workshop on the Reproductive Effects of Video Display Terminals. Design and contracting of clinical trial of calcium supplementation in pregnancy. Design and contracting of clinical trials of new pertussis and H. influenzae vaccines. Supervision of the data coordinating center contract for the Hemophilia Growth and Development Study. Member of team planning the NICHD workshop on the perinatal health effects of illicit drug use.
Centers for Disease Control, USPHS
July 1987 ‑ May 1988 Career development as MPH candidate, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
(Sept. ‑ Oct. 1985) Temporary adviser to the Division of Strengthening Health Services, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, to edit a new version of WHO's evaluation guidelines for National Primary Health Care Programs.)
Aug., 1983 ‑ June, 1987 Medical Epidemiologist, Field Services Division, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC, assigned to the Puerto Rico Department of Health as Director, Division of Epidemiology.
Duties: Conduct communicable disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. Medical consultant for the Health Department's Environmental Health Section. Supervised 9 Regional Epidemiology Nurses, 1 Central Level Epidemiology Nurse, 3 clerical staff, 1 physician, 1 EIS officer (1985-87), 2 preventive medicine residents, and occasional medical students.
Accomplishments: Disease surveillance and control: Identified and eliminated turtle-associated salmonellosis as a cause of infant diarrhea in PR. Provided epidemiologic documentation and standardized the PRDH's protocol for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis. Conducted island-wide training of health personnel on the introduction of blood screening for HIV antibodies. Conducted and published a 16-article evaluation of the progress, in Puerto Rico, towards achieving the "1990 Health Objectives for the Nation". Administrative: Improved communicable disease surveillance (97% of towns reporting at least monthly by 1987, vs. 86% in 1982); Simplified the reporting system by updating reporting forms, and eliminating outdated case investigations by public health nurses. Conducted more, and more comprehensive epidemiologic investigations (43 for 1983-87, vs. 31 for 1979-83). Introduced the first computer, and computerized disease tabulations at the Epidemiology Division, and electronic reporting to CDC for 1986. Served as consultant to the PRDH's Premature Thelarche commissions (1983-87). Personnel training: Conducted island-wide training of embalmers and funeral home staff on precautions against HIV infection (1983-84). Conducted island-wide training of health personnel on introduction of blood screening for HIV (1985). Trained the first group of PR infection control nurses to take the certifying examination given by the Association of Practitioners of Infection Control (APIC).
July 1982‑ July 1983 Medical Epidemiologist, FSD, EPO, assigned to the Epidemiological Studies Section (Toxic Substances Control Division), California Department of Health Services
Duties: Design and conduct epidemiologic studies on the effects of environmental exposures. Answer public inquiries regarding toxic substances.
Accomplishments: Designed and started a study comparing the health status of residents of two communities, one adjacent, the other far, from a toxic waste dumpsite. Designed and field tested a questionnaire for a case-control study of injuries during an earthquake.
Aug., 1981‑June, 1982 Medical Epidemiologist, assigned to the Infectious Disease Section, California Department of Health Services
Duties: Assist in the surveillance, investigation and control of communicable diseases in California.
Accomplishments: Identified and helped investigate and control the largest US outbreak of chancroid (H. ducreyi) up to that date.
May‑Aug, Oct-Nov, 1981 Medical Epidemiologist, assigned to the Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Virología e Inmunología Sanitaria, Ministerio de Sanidad (Madrid), Spain
Duties: Investigate the manifestations and cause of a massive outbreak of a new acute respiratory disease. Supervise 2 Spanish Preventive Medicine residents, and organize the work for a team of interviewers.
Accomplishments: Conducted and published case-control and clinical studies that defined the illness as a pneumonic, paralytic, eosinophilic syndrome caused by contaminated cooking oil. These studies withstood the epidemiologic and legal scrutiny of international experts (such as Sir Richard Doll) called as consultants in the criminal cases judged in Spain.
Feb. ‑ Mar. 1979 Temporary consultant to the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, to conduct a nosocomial infection prevalence study at the University Hospital, and teach epidemiology in the MPH program.
July, 1977‑June, 1979 Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, assigned to the Puerto Rico Department of Health as Director, Communicable Diseases Control Program
Duties: Conduct communicable disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. Hire, train and supervise 9 Regional Epidemiology Nurses and 1 Central Level Epidemiology Nurse, supervise 3 clerical staff.
Accomplishments: Trained the PR Department of Health's first group of regional nurse epidemiologists, and PR's first group of hospital infection control nurses. Investigated 2 large dengue epidemics, 3 food-borne outbreaks of diarrhea in cruise ships, and the first recognized outbreak of botulism in Puerto Rico; translation to Spanish (and publication by PAHO) of CDC’s Isolation Techniques for Use in Hospitals. Taught (by invitation) in the CDC epidemiology (EIS) training course, 1978.
Current Faculty Appointment
University of Puerto Rico, Assistant Professor, ad honorem, School of Public Health and School of Medicine
University of Puerto Rico, Guest Researcher, Center for Historical Investigations, Humanities Faculty, Río Piedras Campus.
PREVIOUS FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1979‑81, Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics
American University of Beirut, February‑ March 1979, Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, June‑ July 1978, Instructor, EIS Course
Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Ponce, P.R., 1978, Assistant Professor, ad honorem
Harvard University, 1975‑77, Instructor in Pediatrics
THESES DIRECTED
Linnette Rodríguez Figueroa - "Estudio seroepidemiológico transversal sobre los factores de riesgo para dengue: Yanes, Florida, Puerto Rico, 1991"; in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master in Sciences in Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico, 1992.
Awarded the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1992. Published - see below.
Raymond Figueroa Ruiz - "Factores de riesgo asociados a la hospitalización por dengue en Puerto Rico durante el 1991"; in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master in Sciences in Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico, 1994.
Carmen Pérez-Casas - "Study of suspected dengue cases, local and imported, in Spain"; in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master in Sciences in Virology, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1995. Published - see below.
Esther Dechant – “Hospitalizations for suspected dengue in Puerto Rico, 1991-95: estimation by capture-recapture methods”; Honors Thesis for the M.D. degree, Harvard Medical School, 1997 (magna cum laude).
Awarded the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1996. Published - see below.
Lucy Peña Carro – “Las comisiones de anemia de Puerto Rico (1904-1908): medicina o justicia social”; in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master in Arts, Department of History, Humanities Faculty, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2007.
Aurimar Ayala López - Working title: "Dengue in Puerto Rico: Surveillance, late manifestations, community participation for control"; in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology, University of California (Berkeley) School of Public Health, in progress.
STUDENT MENTORSHIPS
1984
Yvonne M. Rodríguez Conesa
Juan J. Vázquez Bauzá - University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Class of 1985
Work published - see below.
1992
Agustín Ayuso, University High School, Class of 1993
Claudine Cobra, MD, graduate student, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (Doctorate 1996)
Don R. Wolff, Stanford University School of Medicine, Class of 1995
Work published - see below.
1994
Damien Bracy, Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine, Class of 1995
Allen Richardson, Morehouse School of Medicine, Class of 1997
1996
Myriam Laufer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, MD, 1996.
Aurimar Ayala, Boston University School of Public Health, MPH, 1996
Work published - see below.
1997
Gabriel L. Bonilla, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Class of 2000
Work published - see below.
Leadership positions in professional and community societies
American Red Cross, Puerto Rico Chapter
Member, Board of Directors, 1997-1999
Member, Centennial Celebration Committee, 1993-94
Commissioned Officers Association, Puerto Rico Chapter
Member, Board of Directors, 1997-1999
Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico
Member, Board of Editors of its "Boletín", 1984-94. President, History and Culture Committee, 1985-87.
Member, Planning Committee of the 1992 International Symposium on the History of Spanish-American Medicine, 1991-92.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Member of the Executive Committee of the Epidemiology Section, 1990-93
American Association for the History of Medicine
Alternate liaison with the Societé Internationale d'Histoire de la Médecine, 1991-93
Sociedad de Enfermedades Infecciosas de Puerto Rico
Member, Planning Committee of the 1986 Panamerican Congress for Infectious Diseases, 1985-86.
RECENT INVITED LECTURESHIPS OUTSIDE OF PUERTO RICO
1995 Dengue in Travelers: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment. 4th International Conference on Travel Medicine, International Societ of Travel Medicine, Acapulco, Mexico, 27 April
The risk of Dengue-3 epidemics in the Americas, and The current dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemic in Puerto Rico. Workshop on epidemiologic surveillance of dengue hemorrhagic fever, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 28
Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever: epidemiological and clinical problems. American College of Physicians, Puerto Rico and Eastern Caribbean Meeting, Bridgetown, Barbados, June 3
1996 Investigation of an outbreak of “mystery” disease (leptospirosis), Nicaragua, 1995, and The diagnosis and clinical management of dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome: experiences from Puerto Rico. 41st Annual meeting of the Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 19 April
The epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Annual meeting of the Association for Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Atlanta, Georgia, 4 June
From the Spanish War to the Spanish Influenza: the US Public Health Service in Puerto Rico, 1898-1918. CDC National Hispanic Heritage Month Commemorative Lecture, Atlanta, GA, 9 October
The emergence of dengue hemorrhagic fever as a global public health problem. First World Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and 15th Interamerican Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Acapulco, Mexico, 5 December
1997 The emergence of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Puerto Rico. 22nd Congress of the Asociación Mexicana de Infectología y Microbiología Médica, Oaxaca, Mexico, 12 November
Dengue prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. 4th Annual Binational Conference on Tuberculosis and Other Infectious Diseases, Laredo, Texas, 21 November
1998 Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Congress of the Colombian Association of Medical Schools, Medellín, Colombia, 31 July
1999 Dengue and other arthropod-borne viral diseases. New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: a clinical course. CDC, Emory University, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Atlanta, Georgia, 7 June
Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. 48th University of the West Indies CME Conference, Hastings, Barbados, 19 November
2000 Clinical experiences and management of dengue outbreaks. Dengue Emergency Plan Workshop, Pan American Health Organization, Barbados, 17 February
A triple minority: Puerto Rican, Harvard educated, epidemiologist. Alumni Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 8 June
El cuadro clínico del dengue en Puerto Rico and La vigilancia epidemiológica del dengue en Puerto Rico. Academia Nacional de Ciencias, San José, Costa Rica, 26 July
El cuadro clínico del dengue en Puerto Rico and La vigilancia epidemiológica del dengue en Puerto Rico. Taller Integral para Prevención y Control de Dengue, Argentina Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, 14-15 December
2001 Toxic Oil Syndrome, Spain, 1981. EIS 50th Anniversary Celebration, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, 22 April
La vigilancia epidemiológica del dengue en Puerto Rico. II Curso Internacional en Gestión para la Prevención del Dengue, PAHO-WHO-CDC-Rotary Club-Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 27 April
2003 Principios epidemiológicos en desastres; Patógenos implicados en bioterrorismo; Cómo prepararse para confrontar una epidemia de dengue. Primer y segundo curso latinoamericano sobre manejo de desastres y sus efectos en la niñez, sponsored by the International Health Center, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland), American Academy of Pediatrics, Nicaraguan Pediatric Society, Managua, Nicaragua, 12-16 May; sponsored by the International Health Center, Case Western Reserve University, American Academy of Pediatrics, Johnson and Johnson Company, Panamanian Pediatric Society, Latin American Pediatric Society, Panama City, Panama, 13-17 November
La Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna de Viruela: monarquía y modernidad en 1803. 52º Annual Congress of the Asociación Española de Pediatría, Madrid, Spain, 19 June
2004 El manejo de las epidemias de dengue: señales de alerta, planes de contingencia y acciones de emergencia. Academia Nacional de Ciencias, San José, Costa Rica, 9 March; Región Huétar Atlántica, 10 March
WHO/PAHO CONSULTATIONS:
Spain 1983 Member of WHO Working Group on the Toxic Oil Syndrome, Madrid, March 21-25
Switzerland 1985 WHO Temporary adviser (Division of Strengthening Health Services) to edit the WHO Evaluation Guidelines for National Primary Health Care Programs, Geneva, September 26 - October 26
Ecuador 1994 PAHO Temporary adviser for the evaluation of the national dengue surveillance system, Guayaquil and provinces, April 29 - May 3, 1994
Nicaragua 1994 PAHO Temporary adviser for the evaluation of the national dengue surveillance system and disease severity in the first DEN-3 epidemic in the Americas since 1977, Managua and León, November 29 - December 11, 1994
Vietnam 1999 WHO Temporary adviser for the evaluation of the national dengue surveillance system, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces, May 8 - 30, 1999
Bolivia 2003 PAHO Temporary Adviser in a 5-day workshop with international dengue experts to design a new approach to country assistance for the improvement of dengue surveillance, disease control, community education, and patient treatment. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, April 5-12.
Malaysia 2003 WHO Temporary Adviser for the DengueNet meeting for Asia and the Pacific. Kuala Lumpur, December 11-13.
Switzerland 2004 WHO Temporary adviser for a Joint Workshop on Dengue Diagnostics, Classification and Case Management Schemes, Geneva, October 4-6.
PUBLICATIONS [by date of worked performed, not of publication]
MEDICAL
Peer-reviewed journals outside Puerto Rico
Morens DM, Rigau Pérez JG [Rigau-Pérez JG] et al. Dengue in Puerto Rico, 1977: Public health response to characterize and control an epidemic of multiple serotypes. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1986; 35:197‑ 211.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Hatheway CL, Valentín V. Botulism from acidic food: first cases of botulinic paralysis in Puerto Rico. J Infect Dis 1982; 145:783‑785.
Overturf GD, Rigau-Pérez JG, Selzer J et al. Pneumococcal polysaccharide immunization of children with sickle cell disease. I.Clinical reactions to immunization and relationship to preimmunization antibody. Am J Ped Hematol Oncol 1982; 4:19‑23.
Overturf GD, Rigau-Pérez JG, Honig G et al. Pneumococcal polysaccharide immunization of children with sickle cell disease. II.Serologic response and pneumococcal disease following immunization. Am J Ped Hematol Oncol 1982; 4:25‑35.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Overturf GD, Chan LS, et al. Reactions to booster pneumococcal vaccination in patients with sickle cell disease. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1983, 2:199‑202.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Winkler WG. [letter to the editor] Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Spanish oil syndrome. Lancet 1982, 2: 724. (Spanish edition: 1983, 2:79.)
Kilbourne EM, Rigau-Pérez JG, Heath CW, et al. Clinical epidemiology of toxic oil syndrome: manifestations of a new illness. New Engl J Med, 1983; 309:1408‑1414.
Kilbourne EM, Rigau-Pérez JG, Heath CW, et al. [letter to the editor] Toxic‑oil syndrome. New Engl J Med, 1984; 310:1261‑1262.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Pérez Alvarez L, Dueñas Castro S, et al. Epidemiologic investigation of an oil‑associated pneumonic, paralytic eosinophilic syndrome in Spain. Am J Epidemiol 1984; 119:250‑ 260.
Blackmore CA, Limpakarnjanarat K, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. An outbreak of chancroid in Orange County, California: descriptive epidemiology, laboratory investigation, and disease control measures. J Infect Dis, 1985; 151:840‑844.
Tauxe RV, Rigau-Pérez JG et al. Turtle‑associated salmonellosis in Puerto Rico: hazards of the global turtle trade. JAMA 1985; 254:237‑239.
Tauxe RV, Wells JG, Blake PA, Rigau-Pérez JG. [letter to the editor] The name of the red‑eared slider: herpetologists in slow ferment. JAMA 1986; 255:748.
Berkley S, Rigau-Pérez JG, Facklam R et al. Foodborne streptococcal pharyngitis after a party. Public Health Rep 1986; 101:211‑215.
Dietz VJ, Rigau-Pérez JG, Sanderson L, et al. Health assessment of the 1985 flood disaster in Puerto Rico. Disasters 1990; 14: 164-170.
Dietz VJ, Gubler DJ, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Epidemic dengue 1 in Brazil, 1986: evaluation of a clinically based dengue surveillance system. Am J Epidemiol 1990; 131:693-701.
Dietz VJ, Novotny TE, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Smoking-attributable mortality, years of potential life lost, and direct health care cost for Puerto Rico, 1983. Bull Pan Am Health Organ 1991; 25:77-86. In Spanish, as Mortalidad atribuible al tabaquismo, años de vida potencial perdidos y costos directos para la atención de salud en Puerto Rico, 1983. Bol Of San Panam 1991; 110:378-389.
Rigau-Pérez JG (editor). Proceedings of the NICHD workshop on the reproductive effects of video display terminal use. Reproductive Toxicology, 1990; 4: 37-69.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Summary of final discussion, In: Proceedings of the NICHD workshop on the reproductive effects of video display terminal use. Reproductive Toxicology 1990; 4: 67-69.
Rigau-Pérez JG. [letter to the editor] Traducción del término "Odds Ratio". Gaceta Sanitaria (Barcelona) 1990; 4 (16): 35.
[Rigau-Pérez JG as member of] The NICHD IVIG Study Group. Intravenous immune globulin for the prevention of bacterial infections in symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection. New Engl J Med 1991; 325: 74-80.
Mofenson LM, etc. and [Rigau-Pérez JG as member of] the NICHD IVIG Clinical Trial Study Group. Effect of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) on CD4+ lymphocyte decline in HIV-infected children in a clinical trial of IVIG infection prophylaxis. J AIDS 1993; 6:1103-1113.
Mofenson LM, et al., Rigau-Pérez JG for the NICHD IVIG Clinical Trial Study Group. Characteristics of acute pneumonia in HIV-infected children and association with long term mortality risk. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1998; 17:872-80.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Herman A, Cooper LC. [letter to the editor] Illicit drug and alcohol use during pregnancy. New Engl J Med 1990; 323:1071.
Levine R, et al., and Rigau-Pérez JG. The trial of calcium for preeclampsia prevention (CPEP): rationale, design, and methods. Controlled Clinical Trials 1996; 17:442-69.
Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Dengue severity throughout seasonal changes in incidence in Puerto Rico, 1989-1992. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1994; 51:408-415.
Rodriguez-Figueroa L, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Risk factors for dengue infection during an outbreak in Yanes, Puerto Rico in 1991. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1995; 52:496-502.
Cobra C, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Symptoms of dengue fever in relation to host immunologic response and virus serotype, Puerto Rico, 1990-1991. Am J Epid 1995; 142:1204-11.
López-Vélez R, Pérez-Casas C, Vorndam AV, Rigau-Pérez JG. Dengue in Spanish travelers returning from the tropics. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1996; 15: 823-6.
Rigau-Pérez JG and the Puerto Rico Association of Epidemiologists. The clinical manifestations of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Puerto Rico, 1990-1991. Pan American Journal of Public Health 1997; 1:381-8.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Gubler DJ, Vorndam AV, Clark GG. Dengue in travelers from the United States, 1986-1994. J Travel Med 1997; 4:65-71.
Morrison AC, Getis A, Santiago M, Rigau-Pérez JG, Reiter P. Exploratory space-time analysis of reported dengue cases during an outbreak in Florida, Puerto Rico, 1991-1992. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1998; 58:287-98.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Vorndam AV, Clark GG. The dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemic in Puerto Rico, 1994‑1995. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2001; 64:67-74.
Winch PJ, Leontsini E, Rigau-Pérez JG, Ruiz-Pérez M, Clark GG, Gubler DJ.Community-based dengue prevention programs in Puerto Rico: impact on knowledge, behavior and residential mosquito infestation. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2002; 67:363-370.
Rigau-Pérez JG et al. A deviation bar chart for detecting dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico. Am J Public Health 1999; 89: 374-8.
Lyerla R, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. A dengue outbreak among camp participants in a Caribbean island, 1995. J Travel Med 2000; 7:59-63.
Rigau-Pérez JG [as member of Epidemic Working Group] [letter to editor]. Leptospirosis associated with outbreak of acute febrile illness and pulmonary haemorrhage, Nicaragua, 1995. Lancet 1996; 347: 535-6.
Friedman CR, Malcolm G, Rigau-Pérez JG, Arámbulo III P, Tauxe RV [letter to editor]. Salmonella-based rodenticides: An unnecessary public health risk. Lancet 1996; 347: 1705-6.
Trevejo RT, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Epidemic leptospirosis associated with pulmonary hemorrhage - Nicaragua, 1995. J Infect Dis 1998; 178: 457-63.
Meltzer MI,Rigau-Pérez JG, Clark GG,Reiter P,Gubler DJ. Using disability-adjusted life years to assess the economic impact of dengue in Puerto Rico: 1984-1994. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1998; 59:265-71.
Dechant EJ, Rigau-Pérez JG, and the Puerto Rico Association of Epidemiologists. Hospitalizations for suspected dengue in Puerto Rico, 1991‑1995: Estimation by capture‑recapture methods. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1999; 61:574-578.
Sanders EJ, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Leptospirosis in dengue-negative patients, after a hurricane in Puerto Rico, 1996. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1999; 61:399-404.
Bruce MG, Sanders EJ, Leake JAD, Zaidel O, Bragg SL, Aye T, Shutt KA, Deseda CC, Rigau-Perez JG, Tappero JW, et al. Leptospirosis among patients presenting with dengue-like illness in Puerto Rico. Acta Tropica 2005; 96:36-46.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Laufer MK. Dengue-related deaths in Puerto Rico, 1992-1996: Diagnosis and clinical alarm signals. Clinical Inf Dis 2006; 42:1241-1246.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Ayala-López A, Vorndam AV, Clark GG. Dengue activity in Puerto Rico during an interepidemic period (1995-1997). Am J Trop Med Hyg 2001; 64:75-83.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Clark GG, Gubler DJ, Reiter P, Sanders EJ, Vorndam AV. Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever. The Lancet 1998; 352:971-7. In Spanish: Dengue y fiebre hemorrágica del dengue. The Lancet Edición Española 1999; 34:111-117.
O’Leary DR, Rigau-Pérez JG, Hayes EB, Vorndam AV, Clark GG, Gubler DJ. Assessment of dengue risk in relief workers in Puerto Rico after hurricane Georges, 1998. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2002; 66:35-39.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Ayala-López A, García-Rivera EJ, Hudson SM, Vorndam V, Reiter P, Cano MP, Clark GG. The reappearance of Dengue‑3 and subsequent Dengue-4 and Dengue-1 epidemic, Puerto Rico, 1998. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2002; 67:355-362.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Case definition for dengue hemorrhagic fever. [Letter to the editor] The Pediatr Infect Dis J 1999; 18:80.
García-Rivera EJ, Rigau-Pérez JG. Encephalitis and dengue. [Letter to the editor] The Lancet 2002; 360: 261.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Modes of transmission of hemorrhagic fever. [Letter to the editor] JAMA 2002; 288:571.
García-Rivera EJ, Rigau-Pérez JG. Dengue severity in the elderly in Puerto Rico. Rev Panam Salud Pública/ Pan Am J Public Health 2003; 13:362-368.
Hayes JM, García-Rivera EJ, Flores-Reyna R, et al., and Rigau-Pérez JG. Risk factors for infection during a severe dengue outbreak, El Salvador, 2000. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2003; 69:629-633.
Effler PV, Pang L, Kitsutani P, Vorndam V, Nakata, M, Ayers T, Elm J, Tom T, Reiter P, Rigau-Pérez JG, Hayes JM, Mills K, Napier M, Clark GG, Gubler DJ, for the Hawaii Dengue Outbreak Investigation Team. Dengue fever, Hawaii, 2001-2002. Emerg Infect Dis 2005; 11:742-749.
Hayes JM, Rigau-Pérez JG, Reiter P, Effler PV, Pang L, Vorndam V, et al. Risk factors for infection during a Dengue-1 outbreak in Maui, Hawaii, 2001. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2006; 100:559-566.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Clark GG. Cómo responder a una epidemia de dengue: visión global y experiencia en Puerto Rico. Rev Panam Salud Pública/ Pan Am J Public Health 2005; 17:282-293.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Severe dengue: the need for new case definitions. Lancet Infect Dis 2006; 6:297-302.
García-Rivera EJ, Rigau-Pérez JG. Dengue infection during pregnancy and the perinatal period. Pediatric Inf Dis IN PRESS
Peer-reviewed journals in Puerto Rico
Rigau-Pérez JG, Hatheway CL, Valentín V. First cases of botulinic paralysis in Puerto Rico (1978). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1982; 74:32‑34.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Fankhanel E. SIDA/"AIDS": estadísticas en Puerto Rico y referencias útiles. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1984; 76: 120‑122.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Marqués Díaz BJ, Benítez Avila M, et al. Exposición humana a rabia animal en Puerto Rico, 1980‑1983. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1985; 77:278‑285.
Speckhard ME, Comas Urrutia AC, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Intensive surveillance of pregnancy‑related deaths, Puerto Rico, 1978‑1979. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1985; 77: 508‑513.
Speckhard ME, Comas Urrutia AC, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Risk factors associated with pregnancy‑related deaths in Puerto Rico. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 2‑6.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El control de las infecciones nosocomiales en Puerto Rico: orígenes y metas para 1990. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 14‑18.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Los objetivos de salud para Estados Unidos en 1990 y su aplicación a Puerto Rico. I. Vigilancia y control de enfermedades infecciosas. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1984; 76: 301‑306.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Los objetivos de salud para Estados Unidos en 1990 y su aplicación a Puerto Rico. II. Inmunizaciones. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1984; 76: 424‑428.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Los objetivos de salud para Estados Unidos en 1990 y su aplicación a Puerto Rico. III. Enfermedades de Trasmisión Sexual. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1984; 76: 520‑523.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Rodriguez Conesa IM, Vázquez Bauzá JJ. El control de la hipertensión en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (IV). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1985; 77: 364‑367.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Planificación familiar en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (V). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 55‑60.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Seguridad y salud ocupacional en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (VI). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 154‑159.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La salud en el embarazo y el primer año de vida en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (VII). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 244‑252.
Rigau-Pérez JG. [letter to the editor] Cernimiento neonatal: ¿quién está cubierto? Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 411
Rigau-Pérez JG, Rosado Vélez S. Control del estrés y el comportamiento violento en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (VIII). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 391‑398
Rigau-Pérez JG, Vega NI. Prevención de accidentes y control de lesiones en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (IX). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1986; 78: 523‑534
Rigau-Pérez JG. Abuso de alcohol y drogas en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (X). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 12‑20
Rigau-Pérez JG. Nutrición en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (XI). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 60‑66
Rigau-Pérez JG. El tabaquismo y la salud en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (XII). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 108‑114
Rigau-Pérez JG. Aptitud física y ejercicio en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (XIII). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 159‑163
Rigau-Pérez JG. Fluoruración y salud dental en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (XIV). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 202‑207
Rigau-Pérez JG. El control de los agentes tóxicos ambientales en Puerto Rico: Progreso hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990 (XV). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 251‑258
Rigau-Pérez JG. El progreso en Puerto Rico hacia los objetivos nacionales de salud para 1990: conclusiones (XVI). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79: 277‑287
Rigau-Pérez JG. Cómo referir sus pacientes a tratamiento en los "National Institutes of Health". Prensa Médica [Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico] 1991; 3(1):14; Also in Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1991; 83:407, and Médico Interamericano 1992; 11(1):19.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El servicio de información sobre cáncer y protocolos de tratamiento ("PDQ") ya está accesible desde Puerto Rico. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1991; 83:406.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Clark GG. Dengue activity in Puerto Rico, 1990. P R Health Sci J 1992; 11:65-68.
Rigau-Pérez JG. [book review] Puerto Rico y los libros del SIDA [Review of Jorge Garib, Carmen Garib. Sexo seguro: satisfacción y funcionalidad. Miami, Fla.: Best Litho, 1989; Gloria Mock, Maricarmen Ramírez. SIDA: ¿CRISIS o reto transformador? Río Piedras, PR: Borikén Libros, 1990; Ineke Cunningham, Carlos G. Ramos Bellido, Reinaldo Ortiz Colón. El SIDA en Puerto Rico: acercamientos multidisciplinarios. Río Piedras, PR: Institute of Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1991; Jorge José Ferrer, S.J. El SIDA ¿condena o solidaridad? Madrid: Promoción Popular Cristiana, Colección Documentos y Estudios no. 161, 1992; 114] PR Health Sci J 1993; 12:295-299.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Dengue en Puerto Rico, 1998. Prensa Médica [Asociación Médica de PR] 1998; 10 (2, mayo-diciembre):23.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Guías de práctica clínica en internet. Prensa Médica [Asociación Médica de PR] 1999; 11 (1, enero-marzo):17. Also in PR Health Sci J 1999; 18:139.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Determining the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Puerto Rico. PR Health Sci J 1999; 18:335.
Rigau-Pérez JG et al. Surveillance for an emerging disease: dengue hemorrhagic fever in Puerto Rico, 1988-1997. PR Health Sci J 1999; 18:337-345.
Rigau-Pérez JG et al. An evaluation of modified case definitions for the detection of dengue hemorrhagic fever. PR Health Sci J 1999; 18:347-352.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Torres JV, Hayes JM, Vorndam V, Clark GG. Medical examiner samples: a source for dengue surveillance. PR Health Sci J 2006; 25(1):67-69.
Book chapters
Rigau-Pérez JG. Summary of case‑control studies and case or cluster investigations. In: Grandjean P, Tarkowski S, eds. Toxic oil syndrome: mass food poisoning in Spain. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, 1984: 47‑51. (Published in Spanish as: El síndrome del aceite tóxico. Intoxicación alimentaria masiva en España.)
Rigau-Pérez JG. [contributor to several entries] In: Last JM. A dictionary of epidemiology. 3rd and 4th editions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: xiii, 2001:xix.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Gubler DJ. Surveillance for dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever. In: Gubler DJ, Kuno G, eds. Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever. Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International, 1997:405-23.
Rigau-Pérez JG. [contributor to the dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever entries] In: Chin J, ed. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 17th. ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2000: 142-147.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El cuadro clínico del dengue en Puerto Rico. En: Pizarro Torres D, ed. El dengue. Memorias de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Costa Rica) 2001; 7: 11-21.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La vigilancia epidemiológica del dengue en Puerto Rico. En: Pizarro Torres D, ed. El dengue. Memorias de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Costa Rica) 2001; 7: 23-35.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Clinical case definitions for dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and dengue shock syndrome. In: Lloyd LS, ed., Best practices for dengue prevention and control in the Americas. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development Environmental Health Project (Strategic Report 7), 2003: 72-74.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Case treatment and management. In: Lloyd LS, ed., Best practices for dengue prevention and control in the Americas. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development Environmental Health Project (Strategic Report 7), 2003: 75-79.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Prólogo. In: Pérez-Cardona C, Suárez-Pérez E, Aplicaciones del programa Epi-Info en las ciencias de la salud. San Juan, PR: Ed. Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2004: xi-xiii.
EJ García-Rivera, JG Rigau-Pérez. Dengue virus. In: Cecilia Hutto, ed. Infectious disease: Congenital and perinatal infections: A concise guide to diagnosis. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2005: 187-197.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Tropical diseases. In: Albrecht GL, ed. Encyclopedia of dysability. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006, 5 vols., 4: 1569-1571.
Government and international publications
Numerous Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) articles published anonymously, 1978 to the present, such as
CDC. Pet-Turtle-Associated Salmonellosis -- Puerto Rico. MMRW 1984; 33:141-2.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Gubler DJ, Vorndam AV, Clark GG. Dengue Surveillance -- United States, 1986-1992. MMWR 1994; 43(SS-2): 7-19.
Pan American Health Organization. [contributor to] Guidelines for the prevention and control of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever in the Americas. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, 1994. Published in Spanish as Dengue y dengue hemorrágico en las Américas: guías para su prevención y control; 1995.
CDC. Dengue outbreak associated with multiple serotypes -- Puerto Rico, 1998. MMWR 1998; 47: 952-956.
CDC. [contributor to] Updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems: recommendations from the guidelines working group. MMWR 2001; 50 (RR-13).
CDC. Imported Dengue - United States, 1999 and 2000. MMWR 2002; 5:281-283.
Rigau Pérez JG [Rigau-Pérez JG]. Informe Epidemiológico. Monthly publication of the Puerto Rico Communicable Diseases Control Program. Editor and author from July, 1977 to June 1979, and from May 1983 to July 1987.
Rigau-Pérez JG. [editor of Spanish translation] Técnicas de aislamiento para uso en hospitales. Publicación científica No. 377, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Washington, D.C., 1979.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Pérez Alvarez L, Dueñas Castro S. Estudios epidemiológicos sobre el síndrome tóxico en Navas del Marqués (Avila). In: Simposium nacional "Síndrome Tóxico". Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1982: 217‑219.
Dengue Surveillance Summary. Publication of the Dengue Branch, San Juan Laboratories. Editor and author from March, 1991 to 1994.
Morrison AC, Santiago M, Rigau-Pérez JG, Reiter P. The transmission of dengue fever in Puerto Rico: An epidemiologic approach using a geographic information system. U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4119.
Leontsini E, Winch P, Rigau-Pérez JG. Evaluation of the community-based mosquito control programs for dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention at the CDC San Juan Laboratories, Puerto Rico (CDC contract no. 200-93-065, 1996).
Clark G, Gubler D, Rigau J. Dengue fever. In: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health information for international travel, 2003-2004. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 2003:55-57.
Abstracts (investigations not published as full-length articles)
Smith DF, Rigau-Pérez JG, Stratton JW. Health effects of residential exposure to a hazardous waste site [abstract]. In: Cauthen HI, ed., The official program of the 113th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association [APHA] and related organizations. Washington, DC: APHA, 1985:123.
Rigau-Pérez JG and the IVIG Clinical Trial Study Group. Compliance with an intravenous (IV) placebo in a randomized trial of IV immunoglobulin in HIV-infected children. Abstracts of presentations at the 5th Annual National Pediatric AIDS Conference, Los Angeles, CA, September 6-8, 1989, p. 55; also in Abstracts of presentations at the "Conference Internationale sur les Implications du SIDA pour la Mére et l'Enfant", Paris, France, November 27-30 1989, p. 177.
Reiter P, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Epidemic of dengue-2 in a small town in Puerto Rico, 1991. I.Entomological investigations. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1992; 47: (Supplement):215-216.
Reiter P, Rigau-Pérez JG, et al. Did ULV prolong an epidemic of dengue in Florida, Puerto Rico? J Am Mosq Contr Assoc 1992; 8:315.
Colón-Pérez Y, Negrón-Pagán J, Maldonado E, Benítez J, Pérez A, Pérez-Bonano A, Pumarejo M, Rigau-Pérez JG. Severe dengue at the University of Puerto Rico Pediatric Hospital, 1994-97: Clinical manifestations and results of treatment. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1997; 57 (3 Suppl.): 116-117, Abstract 44.
Ayala A, Pérez CL, Rigau JG, Clark GG, Barrera R. Implementation of a community participation project for dengue prevention in Puerto Rico. Annals of Epidemiology 2005; 15:653(P54).
Instructional media
Videos Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of dengue and DHF (in English and Spanish), 30 min., and 20 min. versions, 2001.
CD-ROM Dengue: Epidemiology, Manifestations, Treatment and Control (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese) - set of 105 slides with script, 2001.
Newspaper articles and letters
Rigau-Pérez JG. Dengue clásico y dengue hemorrágico: ¿Cuál es la diferencia? La Estrella de Puerto Rico [Mayagüez] 30 de mayo al 5 de junio de 1991, p. 23.
Rigau-Pérez JG. AIDS is very much an epidemic. [letter to the editor] The San Juan Star, May 8, 1992, p.17.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Bias toward smoking. [letter to the editor] The San Juan Star, January 11, 1995, p.46.
Rigau-Pérez JG. CDC branch is not just an insect lab. [letter to the editor]. The San Juan Star, April 27, 1996, p. 66.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Organization is the key [Study needed to help eliminate long waits at physicians’offices]. The San Juan Star, 11 June 2002:38.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Crisis en el sistema de salud [sobre la falta de información, de parte del gobierno y los periódicos, sobre el estado actual y planes de reestructuración de los programas de vigilancia y prevención de enfermedades en Puerto Rico]. El Nuevo Día, 5 de enero de 2006:72.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Pican, pican los mosquitos [por la tarde y dentro de las casas, no sólo fuera]. El Nuevo Día, 3 de agosto de 2006:84.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Un tratado de salud contemporáneo y emotivo. [Review of "Para nacer bien". JL Martínez] La Revista, El Nuevo Día, 17 de diciembre de 2006: 35.
HISTORICAL
Book
Rigau-Pérez JG. Historia de la Escuela Superior de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Río Piedras, 1984.
Book Chapters
Rigau-Pérez JG. La introducción de la vacuna de viruela en Puerto Rico, 1803-1804. En: Ramírez S, Valenciano L, Nájera R, Enjuanes L, eds. La Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna. Doscientos años de lucha contra la viruela. Madrid: CSIC (Biblioteca de Historia de América), 2004:77-87.
Rigau-Pérez JG. The apogee of tropical medicine: an epidemiologic portrait of Puerto Rico
in 1927. In: Mayo Santana R, ed. A sojourn in tropical medicine. Francis W. O’Connor’s Diary of a Porto Rican trip, 1927. San Juan: Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico, IN PRESS.
Articles
Rigau-Pérez JG. Enfoque histórico de la ciudad de San Juan en 1776. El Mundo, 4 de julio de 1976, p.10‑A.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Hopes to recover stolen relics dim -- but was there ever hope? [On the theft of Taíno artifacts from the Utuado museum, and other recent art thefts in Puerto Rico]. [Letter to the editor] The San Juan Star, November 24, 1977, p. 25.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El doctor Francisco Oller (1758‑1831). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1978; 70:121‑130.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Christmas with your relatives ‑ all of them. The San Juan Star Sunday Magazine, 25 December 1978, pp.1‑3.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Introducción de la vacuna de viruela en el sur de Puerto Rico, 1804. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1979; 71:147‑150.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El doctor Francisco Oller y el inicio de la salud pública moderna en Puerto Rico, 1790‑1831. Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of the History of Medicine, 1980. (Barcelona, 1981), pp.199‑202.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Rare Spanish medical books at the Norris Medical Library. Library Newsletter (Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California) 1981; 29:3‑5.
Rigau-Pérez JG. 'El Polo Norte' [Notes on a facade in Old San Juan]. [Letter to the editor] The San Juan Star, June 2, 1982, pag. 15.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Smallpox epidemics in Puerto Rico during the prevaccine era (1518‑1803). J Hist Med Allied Sci 1982; 37:423‑438.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El ojo clínico de José Campeche, confirmado por documentos médicos de la época. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1982; 74:390‑393.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Louis Rayffer, un chirurgien de la marine francaise émigré aux Antilles espagnoles. (Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Paris, 1982.) Histoire des Sciences Medicales 1983; 17 (no. special 2, vol. 2):158‑161.
Rigau-Pérez JG. José Elías y Herreros (1847‑1908). Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1984; 76:314.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Strategies that led to the eradication of smallpox in Puerto Rico, 1882‑1921. Bull Hist Med 1985; 59:75‑88.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Monstruos, mártires o ejemplos: teratología en Puerto Rico, de 1798 a 1808. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1985; 77:326‑333.
Rigau-Pérez JG. "On His Majesty's Secret Service": un espía inglés en San Juan en 1779. Revista de Historia 1986; 2(3): 169‑179. [Mapa publicado en Hómines 1989-90; 13(2)-14(1):2-3]
Rigau-Pérez JG. Historia [Carta de pésame de La Hija del Caribe]. El Reportero, 13 de marzo de 1987, pg. 20 (Cartas al editor)
Rigau-Pérez JG. El único dibujo conservado de Campeche. El Nuevo Día, 3 de enero de 1988, DOMINGO, págs. 16‑17.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Las expediciones botánicas a Puerto Rico de Sessé (1796), Baudin y Ledru (1797), y Plée (1823). Hómines 1987‑88; 11(1‑2): 8‑33.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Puerto Rico en la pluma de Benito Pérez Galdós. El Nuevo Día, 20 de marzo de 1988, DOMINGO, págs. 20‑21.
Rigau-Pérez JG. "Astonished at their bravery": el relato de un invasor inglés en Puerto Rico, 1797. Revista de Historia 1988; no.7: 81-94.
Rigau-Pérez JG. The introduction of smallpox vaccine in 1803 and the adoption of immunization as a government function in Puerto Rico. Hisp Am Hist Rev 1989; 69:393-423.
Rigau-Pérez JG. The arrival of information on smallpox vaccine in Spanish America. (Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress on the History of Medicine, Antwerp, September 1990) Acta Belgica Historiae Medicinae 1991: 541-5.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Muerte por mosquito: la epidemia de fiebre amarilla en San Juan de Puerto Rico 1804-1805. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1991; 83: 58-60.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Villaizán M. Cesáreas post-mortem en Puerto Rico, 1805-1807. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1991; 83: 91-95.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La difusión en Hispanoamérica de las primeras publicaciones españolas sobre vacuna, 1799-1804. Asclepio 1992; 44:165-179.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Modos de comunicación científica entre España y Puerto Rico (1785-1808). Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Medicina, Granada-Sevilla: 1-6 de septiembre de 1992. Sevilla: Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina, 1994: 283-287.
Riera Blanco M, Rigau-Pérez JG. Los primitivos de la vacuna en Tarragona y el ingeniero de Marina don Juan Smith. Gimbernat (Revista Catalana d'Historia de la Medicina i de la Ciencia) 1992; 17 (Actes VII Congrés d'Historia de la Medicina Catalana, Tarragona, 6, 7 i 8 de novembre de 1992, vol. 1):289-303.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El mosquito en la etiología de entonces y la de ahora: comentario a "El mosquito en la etiología moderna" de Francisco Del Valle Atiles, 1903. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1993; 85: 84-85.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Los orígenes de la Cruz Roja en Puerto Rico. Historia y Sociedad (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras) 1993; 6:55-80.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Figueroa F, Hutchinson Negrón H. José Campeche ¿compositor? El Nuevo Día, 26 de junio de 1994, DOMINGO, págs. 16-18.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Los libros de entierros como fuente para la historia social. Boletín de la Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía 1994; 6(3-4): 26-29.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Surgery at the service of theology: postmortem cesarean sections in Puerto Rico, and the Royal Cedula of 1804. Hisp Am Hist Rev 1995; 75:377-404.
Rigau-Pérez JG, Pereira Díaz LA. (HAY BILHARZIA!, by Klock, Ildefonso, and Mateo-Serrano: Medical images of poverty and development in Puerto Rico in the 1950s. PR Health Sci J 1996; 15:33-44.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Las músicas del 1898: ¿hubo durante la invasión una melodía común? Diálogo (Universidad de Puerto Rico), enero 1998:40-1. (La Canción Popular 1998;13 (13): 55-59.)
Rigau-Pérez JG. La Cruz Roja en el bombardeo de San Juan. El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo, 24 de mayo de 1998:11-4.
Rigau-Pérez JG. The early use of break-bone fever (quebranta huesos, 1771) and dengue (1801) in Spanish. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1998; 59:272-4.
Rigau-Pérez JG. ¿El primer gobernador retratado por Campeche? El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo, 16 de enero de 2000: 16-17.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Bailey K. Ashford, más allá de sus memorias. PR Health Sci J 2000; 19:51-55.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La salud en Puerto Rico en el siglo XX. PR Health Sci J 2000; 19: 357-368.
Burns CR, O'Neill YV, Albou P, Rigau-Pérez JG, eds. Proceedings of the 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine [International Society for the History of Medicine, Galveston, TX, September 10-15, 2000]. Galveston, TX: Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 2002.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Juan Pantaleón Avilés. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 2004; 96:60-61.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna de Viruela: monarquía y modernidad en 1803. P R Health Sci J 2004; 23:223-231.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Cultura médica actual ¿Por qué investigo la historia de la medicina? El Nuevo Día, Revista Foro, 29 de mayo de 2005: 5.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Miraflores: more than a powderhouse. [Letter to the editor] The San Juan Star, December 4, 2007: 16.
Participation as guest speaker in videos:
Bailey K. Ashford. “Autógrafo” series, People Television, San Juan, 1997.
Bailey K. Ashford: un soldado de la ciencia. WIPR-TV/ Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1999.
Book Reviews
Rigau-Pérez JG. Colonialism, catholicism and contraception. A history of birth control in Puerto Rico, by AB Ramirez de Arellano and C Seipp. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1983; 75:433.
Rigau-Pérez JG. "Colonialism, Catholicism and Contraception" y otros estudios recientes sobre la salud de la mujer en Puerto Rico. Revista de Historia 1987; 2(4): 143‑149.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Insula macacaria. [Review of "The Cayo Santiago macaques: history, behavior and biology". RG Rawlins, MJ Kessler, eds.] Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1987; 79:351; also in P R Health Sci J 1987; 6:119.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Recensión de Historia de la medicina, por Francisco Guerra. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1990; 82:40; also in Bull Hist Med 1990; 64:340-1.
Rigau-Pérez JG. The eradication of smallpox: organizational learning and innovation in international health, by Jack W. Hopkins. Bull Hist Med 1990; 64:347-9.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Los orígenes en España de los estudios sobre la salud pública, by José M. López Piñero (ed.); Juan Manuel de Aréjula (1755 - 1830): Estudio sobre la fiebre amarilla, by Juan L. Carrillo (ed.); Francisco Méndez Alvaro (1806-1883) y las ideas sanitarias del liberalismo moderado, by José Luis Fresquet-Febrer (ed.); Estudios médico-sociales sobre marginados en la España del siglo XIX, by Antonio M. Rey-González (ed.). Bull Hist Med 1991; 65:131-137.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Hospital Ryder Memorial: Relato de un ministerio de salud, by John A. Smith. Prensa Médica [Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico] 1992; 4(6):8; also in PR Health Sci J 1992; 11:105.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del Antiguo Régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX (las epidemias de viruelas), by Marcelo Frías Núñez. Bull Hist Med 1993; 67:559-561.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La sanitat municipal a Valencia (segles XIII-XX), by Vicent L. Salavert and Jorge Navarro. Bull Hist Med 1993; 67:562-563.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Hispanoamérica y las Academias de Medicina Españolas, by A. Orozco Acuaviva, ed. Bull Hist Med 1993; 67:719-720.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Historia de la medicina valenciana, by José M. López Piñero, ed. Bull Hist Med 1993; 67:721.
Rigau-Pérez JG. El cuerpo limpio: análisis de las prácticas higiénicas en la España del mundo moderno, by María José Ruiz Somavilla. Bull Hist Med 1995; 69:631-2.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Enfermedad y población, by Josep Bernabeu Mestre. Bull Hist Med 1996; 70:560-1.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Saberes andinos: ciencia y tecnología en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú, by Marcos Cueto. Bull Hist Med 1997; 71:189-90.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La ortopedia en Puerto Rico: Medio siglo de progreso [Orthopedics in Puerto Rico: a half-century of progress], by Jorge Bonilla Colón. Vesalius 1997; 3:121.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Barberos, cirujanos, y gente de mar: la sanidad naval y la profesión quirúrgica en la España ilustrada, by Mikel Astrain Gallart. Bull Hist Med 1998; 72:548-9.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La salut en la historia d’Europa, by Arrizabalaga, Martínez and Pardo. Bull Hist Med 2000; 74:365-6.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Exploración botánica de las islas de barlovento: Cuba y Puerto Rico. Siglo XVIII. La obra de Martín de Sessé y José Estévez, by Paloma B. Fernández de Caleya, Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper Mulero, Graziela Zamudio Varela, Mercedes Valero González y J. Luis Maldonado Polo. Historia y Sociedad (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras) 2000-2001; 12:141-145.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Epidemiología americana, by Francisco Guerra. Bull Hist Med 2001; 75: 142-144.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Historia de la enfermería de salud pública en España, by Josep Bernabeu Mestre and Encarna Gascón Pérez. Bull Hist Med 2002; 76:395-397.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Disease in the history of modern Latin America: from malaria to AIDS, by Diego Armus, ed. Bull Hist Med 2004; 78:741-742.
Rigau-Pérez JG. The power of plagues, by Irwin W. Sherman. EID 2006; 12:1625-1626.
Travel & Ephemera
Rigau-Pérez JG. Hygiene and morality [Letter to the editor]. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin 1976; 51 (1):31.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Welcome to Boston! In: Carson S, Tanenbaum M, eds. Children's Hospital Medical Center house officer's handbook. Boston, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 1977: 1‑3.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Excellent teacher [Néstor Manuel Rodriguez]. [Letter to the editor] The San Juan Star, September 15, 1977.
Yumet S, Rigau J, Rigau-Pérez JG. Getting the best out of the good. The San Juan Star, August 17, 1983, pag. 27.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Dining in Madrid delights. The San Juan Star, September 2, 1984, Gusto section, pp. 10,12.
Bennett AG, Rigau-Pérez JG. A fan in The Fine Arts Museums at San Francisco: the park of El Capricho. Fans (Bulletin of the Fan Circle International), Summer 1987; no. 36:16‑18.
Rigau-Pérez JG. An epidemiologists' first aid kit. The Biased Observer [The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Student Newsletter], December 1987, p. 3.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Aphorisms from the Faculty. The Biased Observer, May 1988, pp. 3‑4.
Rigau-Pérez JG. I've got a little list. The Biased Observer May, 1988, pp. 6‑7.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Books to spark life in island memories. The San Juan Star Sunday Magazine, December 31, 1988, pag. 17.
Rigau-Pérez JG. It has been said [collection of aphorisms]. Perspect Biol Med 1990; 33: 254-257. Correction in 1991; 34: 313.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Turismo médico en Washington, DC. Bol Asoc Med P Rico 1990; 82: 78-80.
Rigau-Pérez JG. ¿Nos quedaremos sin herencia? [sobre la colección de arte y artesanía popular de Teodoro Vidal]. Prensa Médica [Asociación Médica de PR] 1993; 5 (4, mayo-junio): 7. Also (abridged) in: Nuestra herencia, El Vocero, 21 de mayo de 1993, p. 21.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Truth be told [WIPR-FM programs on Wilhelm Furtwangler] [Letter to the editor]. The San Juan Star, 27 November 1994: 94.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Public phone time limit. The San Juan Star, 21 February 1996:47.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Organization is the key [Study needed to help eliminate long waits at physicians’offices]. The San Juan Star, 11 June 2002:38.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Shuffle that classical music [Unnecessary repetition in the daily WIPR-FM programming]. The San Juan Star, 13 June 2002:28.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Station or outpost? [Need to improve access and connections to Martínez Nadal station of the Tren Urbano]. The San Juan Star, 16 December 2005:64.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Crisis en el sistema de salud [sobre la falta de información, de parte del gobierno y los periódicos, sobre el estado actual y planes de reestructuración de los programas de vigilancia y prevención de enfermedades en Puerto Rico]. El Nuevo Día, 5 de enero de 2006:72.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Spotting dichos on cars and trucks. The San Juan Star, 18 April 2006:42.
Rigau-Pérez JG. La pena de muerte [Baldorioty se opone, ya en 1867]. El Nuevo Día, 13 de septiembre de 2006:90.
Rigau-Pérez JG. Nobel Prize part of [Arecibo] observatory’s value to P.R. The San Juan Star, 19 December 2006:50.
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