Dr. Elba Torres-Matundan, MD

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Get to know Pathologist Dr. Elba Torres-Matundan, who serves patients in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Top pathologist, Dr. Torres-Matundan,  is a certified Breast Pathologist at Puerto Rico Pathology, which is the pathology laboratory with the most experience and trajectory in the country. She also is experienced in gynecologic and head and neck pathology.

The mission of Puerto Rico Pathology is to provide the medical community and its patients with excellent services in the different fields of pathology. Its team of pathologists is a select group with extensive experience, many of them recognized professionals in different subspecialties of pathology, as well as prestigious professors at the Universities of Puerto Rico.

Academically, Dr. Torres-Matundan graduated with her medical degree from Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine in 1997. She then went on to perform her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997. This was followed by an oncologic pathology fellowship in 2001 and breast pathology fellowship in 2002, both at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Excelling in her profession, the doctor is board-certified in anatomic pathology by the American Board of Pathology (ABPath). The mission of the ABPath is to promote the health of the public and advance the practice and science of pathology by establishing voluntary certification standards and assessing the qualifications of those seeking to practice the specialty of pathology.

A member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Dr. Torres-Matundan is a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists (FCAP) and a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (FASCP). She is also President of the Board of Directors at Puerto Rico Pathology. 

Pathology is a branch of medical science that involves the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of surgically removed organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and in some cases, the whole body. Pathologists are physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and management of diseases by laboratory methods. 

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