Jose Mena, MD
Affiliations
Specialties
About Jose Mena, MD
Jose Mena, M.D., is a board-certified physiatrist at Baptist Health Orthopedic Care. Dr. Mena specializes in diagnosing and treating spine and back injuries, diseases and disorders. He currently serves as the team pain physician for the Miami Dolphins and a team physician for FIU athletics. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
Dr. Mena offers a variety of minimally invasive and noninvasive procedures to treat back problems, including sacroplasty for sacrum fractures, vertebral augmentation (balloon kyphoplasty and spine jack) for spine fractures, basivertebral nerve ablation (Intracept®), discograms/intradiscal procedures, transforaminal epidural steroid injections, facet joint interventions including radiofrequency neurotomy, sacroiliac joint injection, ultrasound-guided and fluoroscopically-guided injection of the peripheral joint, bursa injections and electrodiagnostic studies, including nerve conduction studies and electromyograms (EMG).
Dr. Mena joined Baptist Health Orthopedic Care from the University of Miami Hospital & Clinics, where he served in several capacities, including as an associate residency program director in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and co-medical director of the UHealth Advanced Institute for Pain Management.
Dr. Mena’s research has been published in peer-reviewed publications, including PM&R, the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and he has presented at numerous professional events and meetings. He is a question senior editor for the ABPM&R board and an ABPM&R oral board examiner. Dr. Mena also serves as an editor for the ABA pain medicine boards and is part of the ABA Pain Medicine Examination Committee. As an instructor for the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society (IPSIS, formerly SIS), he is dedicated to teaching safe and effective diagnostic and therapeutic interventional spine procedures to his peers. IPSIS instructors are among the most carefully selected faculty in interventional spine medicine.
Male
English
Portuguese
Spanish
Adolescents (16-18 years)
Adults (18+)
Adults (65+)
Baptist Hospital of Miami
Doctors Hospital
South Miami Hospital
West Kendall Baptist Hospital
Education & Training
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Fellowship Program, Pain Medicine, 2008
Boston Medical Center
Residency Program, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2007
VA Caribbean Healthcare System
Internship Program, Internal Medicine, 2004
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine (San Juan)
Medical School, 2003
Pain Medicine
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2008
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2008
Locations
Accepted Insurance
Note: Health plans that are currently contracted with Baptist Health are listed below. However, please check with our insurance provider to verify that Baptist Health is part of your provider network.
- Medicare
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
- Great West
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
- BlueCare
- Medicare HMO
- MyBlue
- Options
- POS
- PPO
- Select
- Select
- HMO
- NHP
- POS
- PPO
Ratings & Reviews
The Patient Satisfaction Rating is an average of all responses to the care provider related questions shown below from our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey. Patients that are treated in outpatient or hospital environments may receive different surveys, and the volume of responses will vary by question.
4.8 / 5
