About

I am a family medicine resident physician in Hialeah, Florida, training at Palmetto General Hospital. Family medicine is the only specialty organized around a relationship rather than an organ system, and that is precisely why I chose it — I wanted to be the physician who is still there in ten years, who knows the whole household, and who can follow a question from a first well-child visit to a difficult conversation about a parent's last years.

I trained in medicine at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Camagüey in Cuba, where medicine is taught from the neighborhood inward — you learn the household before you learn the hospital. That grounding shapes how I practice now in South Florida, caring for a largely Spanish-speaking community where the difference between a plan that works and a plan that fails is often nothing more than whether it was explained in the language and the life the patient actually has.

Most of my clinical attention goes where the numbers in this community go: diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and the long, unglamorous work of prevention. I am interested in the parts of that work that are usually treated as administrative — the follow-up call, the medication list that finally gets reconciled, the referral that actually closes — because those are the places where continuity is either kept or quietly lost.