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About Agueda Hernandez

Agueda Hernandez, MD, FAAFP is the Chief Medical Officer of the Baptist Health Center for the Advancement of Learning and the Designated Institutional Official for Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Hernandez received her undergraduate and doctor of medicine degrees from Brown University. She joined Baptist Health South Florida in 2012 as the founding associate director of the West Kendall Baptist Hospital/Florida International University Family Medicine Residency and medical director of the Baptist Health Medical Group Family Medicine Center. The family medicine program was the first ACGME accredited residency at BHSF. Dr. Hernandez served as program director from 2015 until 2019, when she assumed the role of CMO and designated institutional official for BHSF.
Dr. Hernandez is passionate about issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Upon graduating from the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Massachusetts, where she served as Chief Resident, she joined the faculty. During her time as a faculty member, she served as Associate Residency Director and was Associate Clinical Director for Latino Health 2010, a CDC-funded REACH Project aimed at developing community-based interventions for addressing health disparities. Prior to joining Baptist Health, Dr. Hernandez was a core faculty member and Assistant Director of Pre-doctoral Education in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She authored a Residency Training in Primary Care Grant, which was funded by the DHHS Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) to provide public health advocacy and cultural competence training. As co-director of the project, she developed and implemented the curriculum for residents and adapted it for use with undergraduate medical students. When she joined the faculty at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Dr. Hernandez co-taught the Period 1 course Sociocultural Aspects of Healthcare. Currently Dr. Hernandez is leading the development and evaluation of a health equity curriculum for residents at Baptist Health.
Dr. Hernandez holds a community-based voluntary appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, Health and Society of the FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. She was honored with the Florida Academy of Family Physicians Exemplary Full-Time Educator Award in 2015 and as the Family Medicine Residency Attending of the Year in 2019.

Positions

2019 - Present Chief Medical Officer, Baptist Health South Florida ‐ Center for the Advancement of Learning
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April 2012 - Present Associate Professor, Community Based Faculty, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine ‐ Department of Humanities, Health and Society
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April 2015 - September 2020 Chair of Family Medicine, Baptist Health South Florida ‐ West Kendall Baptist Hospital
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September 2018 - September 2019 Associate Designated Institutional Official, Baptist Health South Florida
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April 2015 - November 2019 Program Director FIU Family Medicine Residency, Baptist Health South Florida ‐ West Kendall Baptist Hospital
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April 2012 - October 2018 Medical Director Family Medicine Center, Baptist Health South Florida ‐ Baptist Health Medical Group
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August 2010 - April 2012 Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine ‐ Department of Humanities, Health and Society
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December 2006 - April 2012 Family Physician, President, Pinecrest Family Medicine
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February 2002 - December 2006 Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Miami ‐ School of Medicine
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June 2000 - June 2002 Assistant Clinical Professor, Tufts University ‐ School of Medicine
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November 1999 - November 2001 Attending Physician, Associate Residency Director, Associate Clinical Director Latino Health, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
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Disciplines

Grants

2004 - 2005 Community Needs Assessment
Jackson Memorial Foundation, United Healthcare Foundation
Jefferson Reaves, Sr. Health Center Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation (RARE) Project
Role: Co-Investigator
$18,000
2004 Public Health Advocacy and Cultural Competence Training
Health Resources and Service Administration, DHHS
Residency Training in Primary Care Grant
Role: Primary author, Co-director
$463,000
1999 Latino Health 2010; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, REACH Project
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Role: Associate Clinical Director
$1,015,325
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2021 - Present Project Leader, Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC) National Initiative VIII JEDI
2021 - Present Member, Baptist Health South Florida Health Equity Workstream
2021 - Present Chair, Physicians BRG, BHSF Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative
2020 - Present Co-Chair, Baptist Health Compassionate Communication Taskforce
2019 - Present Chair, Baptist Health South Florida Graduate Medical Education Committee
2019 - Present Director, Baptist Health South Florida, Primary Care Focus Symposium
2019 - Present Member, Physician Philanthropy Advisory Council
2018 - Present Member, Baptist Health South Florida Continuing Medical Education Committee
2018 - Present Editorial Board Member, Nursing and Health Sciences Research Journal
2012 - Present Member, Baptist Health Medical Group Physician Practice Leadership Council
2017 - 2022 Member, Baptist Health South Florida Conflict of Interest Research Committee
2012 - 2019 Member, Baptist Health Medical Group Information Technology Committee
2012 - 2019 Manager, Baptist Health Quality Network Board of Managers
2012 - 2019 Director, FIU HWCOM Family Medicine WKBH Sub-Internship
2012 - 2016 Member, Baptist Health Medical Group Research Committee
2013 Presenter, Breast Cancer Screening – 3rd Annual Women of Color Empowerment Conference, Ft Lauderdale
2011 - 2012 Member, Baptist Health South Florida Primary Care Steering Committee
2002 - 2006 Coordinator for Pediatric Rotations, JMH Family Practice Residency
2002 - 2006 Member, JMH Family Practice Residency Curriculum Committee
2002 - 2006 Member, JMH Family Practice Residency Selections Committee
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Honors and Awards

  • Press Ganey Leading Innovator Award, Baptist Health South Florida Compassionate Communication Taskforce, 2020
  • West Kendall Baptist Hospital/Florida International University Family Medicine Residency Attending of the Year, 2019
  • Florida Academy of Family Physicians Exemplary Full-Time Educator Award, 2015
  • Installed as Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, 2014
  • Bank of America Community Fellow, 2004 -2005
  • Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation, 1996

Courses

  • Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Diversity Leadership Series, Oct 2021
  • Instructor, ALSO Course 2003, 2004, 2013, 2017
  • Course Director, Primary Care Focus Symposium, July 2019 to present
  • Academic Day Lectures for Family Medicine Residents and FIU HWCOM Students 2013 - Present
  • WKBH/FIU FM Faculty Development Series 2017-2020

Education

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June 2022 Certificate, University of South Florida Muma College of Business ‐ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
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June 2019 Certificate, MIT Sloan School of Management ‐ Leading Through Financial Excellence
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1996 - 1999 Resident, Lawrence Family Medicine Residency
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1996 Doctor of Medicine, Brown University
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1992 BA, Human Biology, Brown University
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Contact Information

Agueda Hernandez, MD, FAAFP
Graduate Medical Education
West Kendall Baptist Hospital
9555 SW 162nd Ave
Miami, FL 33196

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