Physician Leadership

Cardiac Surgery

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Tom C Nguyen, MD

Chief Medical Executive Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Director of Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery, Barry T. Katzen Endowed Chair

Joseph Thomas McGinn, MD

Chief of Cardiac Surgery-Deputy Director of Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Professor of Surgery Wertheim School of Medicine, Florida International University

Steven Jeffrey Hoff, MD

Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of Arrhythmia Surgery, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute

Cardiology

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Jonathan Adam Fialkow, MD

Chief Medical Executive, Value, Primary Care and Population Health Deputy Director of Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute Chief of Cardiology, Baptist Hospital

Percy William Aitken, MD

Medical Director of Cardiology Services, Doctors Hospital

Ian Del Conde Pozzi, MD

Associate Chief of Cardiology and Medical Director of Vascular Medicine

Elliott J Elias, MD

Medical Director of Cardiac and Structural Imaging

Theodore Feldman, MD

Medical Director, Prevention and Community Health/ Co-Medical Director, Lipid Management Program

Alvaro Augusto Gomez, MD

Physician Lead for Cardio-Oncology Build

Curtis Andrew Hamburg, MD

Medical Director of Professional Standards

Socrates V Kakoulides, MD

Medical Director of Ambulatory Diagnostic Center, Cardio-oncologist

Karl Heinz Lembcke, MD

Medical Director of Cardiology Services at West Kendall Baptist

John Anthony Morytko, MD

Medical Director of Clinical Research

Mario Ignacio Pascual, MD

Medical Director Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Management

Ramon Quesada, MD

Medical Director of Structural Heart, Complex Coronary Intervention

Tarak Rambhatla, MD

Medical Director of Inpatient Cardiac Services and Medical Director of Cardiovascular Informatics

Marcus Edward St John, MD

Medical Director for Cardiac Catharization Lab/Interventional Cardiology

Juan F Viles-Gonzalez, MD

Medical Director of Ambulatory Arrhythmia Management and Device Clinic

Eli Meyer Friedman, MD

Medical Director of Sports Cardiology Medical Director of Quality and Clinical Standardization

Lisa Weiss Forbess, MD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program and Cardiology/OB

Endocrinology

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Pascual De Santis, MD

Chief of Endocrinology

General Surgery

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Rupa Seetharamaiah, MD

General and Bariatric Surgery, Associate Program Director – BHSF General Surgery Residency Program, Associate Assistant Professor- Department of Surgery, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Anthony Michael Gonzalez, MD

Chief of Surgery at Baptist Hospital of Miami, Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at South Miami Hospital, Assistant Professor of Surgery, FIU College of Medicine and Program Director MIS/Bariatric Surgery Fellowship

Jorge Rafael Rabaza, MD

Chief of Surgery at South Miami Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Florida International University College of Medicine and Co-Director of Bariatric Surgery at South Miami Hospital

George Roman Tershakovec, MD

Medical Director, General Surgery at Homestead, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Juan-Carlos Verdeja, MD

Affiliate Dean, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Laparoscopy and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Chief of the General Surgery Division, Baptist Health Medical Group, Founding President of the Medical Staff, West Kendall Baptist Hospital and Medical Director of Emergency Surgical Services, Baptist Hospital of Miami, South Miami Hospital, West Kendal Baptist Hospital, Homestead Hospital, and Mariner’s Hospital

Hospital Medicine

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Andres Felipe Soto, MD

Chief of Hospital Medicine, VP of Medical Staff at WKBH

Neurosurgery / MNI / Spine

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Michael W McDermott, MD

Chief Medical Executive, Miami Neuroscience Institute Irma & Kalman Bass Endowed Chair in Clinical Neuroscience Chief of the Division of Neuroscience; and Professor Translational Medicine FIU, HWCOM

Diego R Torres-Russotto, MD

Chair of Neurology, Chief of Movement Disorders Neurology Residency Program Director Clinical Professor Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine - Florida International University (FIU) Adjunct Professor Department of Neurological Sciences - University of Nebraska Medical Center

Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa, MD

Irma Bass Endowed Chair in Stroke Neurology, Director of Stroke Care

Ivan Rafael Matos Diaz, MD

Co-director of Cerebrovascular Neurology, Director of Clinical Clerkship and Medical Student Teaching FIU- Baptist

Vitaly Siomin, MD

Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery, Director of Epilepsy Surgery and Co-director of Skull Base Surgery

Michael Enrique Gomez, MD

Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Justin Matthew Sporrer, MD

Director of Functional Neurosurgery

Raul A Vasquez-Castellanos, MD

Director of Complex Spine Surgery

Jobyna Whiting, MD

Director of Degenerative Spine Surgery

Robert Jeremy Rothrock, MD

Director of Spinal Oncology

Robert Thomas Wicks, MD

Co-director of Cerebrovascular Surgery, Director of NIR Fellowship

Jason Ilias Liounakos, MD

Director of Outpatient Spine Surgery

Guilherme Castro Dabus, MD

Co-director of Interventional Neuroradiology

Italo Linfante, MD

Director of Interventional Neuroradiology

Luis Felipe Tornes, MD

Director of Epilepsy

Orthopedic Sports Medicine

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Michael Swartzon, MD

Chief of Primary Care Sports Medicine

Orthopedic Surgery

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John William Uribe, MD

Chief Medical Executive

Alexander van der Ven, MD

Chief of Hip & Knee Arthroplasty

Elizabeth Ann Ouellette, MD

Chief of Hand Surgery

Charles Javier Jordan, MD

Chief of Trauma Surgery

John E Zvijac, MD

Medical Director Baptist Health Surgery Center

Derek Francis Papp, MD

Medical Lead, Florida Keys

Pain Management

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Moises Lustgarten, MD

Director of Pain Care

Palliative Care

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Brenda Daniels, MD

Associate Medical Director for Palliative Care Program

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

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Ronald Barton Tolchin, DO

Kalman Bass Endowed Chair in Pain and Rehabilitative Medicine, Director of Spine Care

Melissa Marie Guanche, MD

Director of Interventional Spine Care

German Alberto Ojeda Correal, MD

Director of Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

Jose Andres Restrepo, MD

Director of Outpatient Rehabilitation

Primary Care

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Douglas Jose Inciarte, MD

Family Medicine Residency Program Director

Elise Michelle McCormack-Granja, MD

Primary Care Physician Lead

Jose L Vazquez, MD

Chief of Primary Care

Andrew James Forster, MD

Primary Care Physician Lead

Lester Carrodeguas, MD

Primary Care Physician Lead

Nathalie Regalado, MD

Primary Care Physician Lead

Kathleen Lisa Filiaggi, MD

Primary Care Physician Lead

Sleep Medicine

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Harneet Kaur Walia, MD

Medical Director of MCVI Sleep Medicine and Medical Director of MCVI Continuous Improvement