Dr. Irma Oliva is a Texas native who pursued an undergraduate degree at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, prior to attending medical school at the University of Texas in Houston. She continued her combined anatomic and clinical pathology training at Emory University in Atlanta. She continued her training at University of California, Los Angeles, and completed a Cytopathology fellowship followed by a second fellowship in Surgical pathology with emphasis in gastrointestinal and liver pathology. Dr. Oliva is triple board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology as well as Cytopathology and began her practice at Ochsner in 2013.

Medical Education

McGovern Medical School
Field of Study: medicine

Residency

Emory University School of Medicine
Field of Study: Anatomic/Clinical Pathology

Fellowship

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Field of Study: Cytopathology

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Field of Study: Surgical Pathology