Dr. Rodriguez- Barrath completed her medical school at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela in 2012, and then completed a rural internship as an emergency and general physician. After moving to the United States in 2014, she did a research fellowship focused in neuropathic eye pain, at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, at the University of Miami. She then moved to Iowa in 2017, where she completed a four-year residency in Neurology and subsequently a 2-year Neuro-Ophthalmology fellowship at The University of Iowa, which was completed in 2023. Her areas of expertise include treating diseases related to the optic nerve, optic pathways, high order visual function, ocular motility and a number of inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases with ocular manifestations. She also has interest and expertise in diagnosing and treating headache disorders and facial pain.

Her primary research interests are focused on the study of photophobia in different headache and facial pain disorders, and on idiopathic intracranial hypertension, particularly on pulsatile tinnitus and venous flow, and how to develop objective clinical values to monitor disease progression and treatment response. Dr. Rodriguez Leon is a Board Certified Neurologist by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Headache Society (AHS) and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS). She also has had collaborations with the Center for the Prevention and Restoration of Visual Loss (CPTVL) at the Iowa City VA Medical Center since 2022.