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Agueda Hernandez

Chief Medical Officer at Baptist Health Center for the Advancement of Learning


 
 

Bio

Agueda Hernandez, MD, FAAFP is the Chief Medical Officer of the Baptist Health Center for the Advancement of Learning and 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 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 stepped down to assume the role of CMO/DIO. Dr. Hernandez holds an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, Health and Society of the FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. When HWCOM welcomed its first class of students in 2009, she served as a preceptor at her solo practice. Dr. Hernandez co-taught the Period 1 course Sociocultural Aspects of Healthcare from 2010 to 2012, when she was tapped to help found the West Kendall Baptist Hospital/Florida International University Family Medicine Residency. She then became a preceptor for the family medicine clerkship at the Family Medicine Center and the rotation director for the family medicine sub-internship at West Kendall Baptist Hospital. 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. A passionate educator, Dr. Hernandez 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.