President Danilo Medina appointed Dr. Amado Alejandro Báez as advisor to the Executive Branch on public health, disaster systems and mass emergencies and critical care. Dr. Báez joins Dr. Jorge Marte, medical director at Cedimat, who was recently recruited to be part of the High Commission for the Prevention of the Coronavirus.
Dr. Báez is a highly-awarded US influential healthcare systems expert. He has faculty appointments at Harvard University, the University of Barcelona and the University of Miami. Dr. Baez is a Mayo Clinic and Harvard-trained US Board Certified physician with graduate degrees in Public Health and Healthcare Management. In recent years he has become involved in efforts to position the Dominican Republic as a player in the medical tourism industry.
More details on Dr. Báez’s background are on his Linked In profile:
Professor and vice chairman at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University since July 2019. The college has a long history of providing medical training and operational support to law enforcement and the Department of Defense in the United States.
Member of the board of directors of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association from September 2019.
Chief Success Officer for TraumaRD Vision 2020 in the Dominican Republic from September 2018. TraumaRD.org Vision2020 is a public-private partnership focused on developing a working agenda for trauma systems in the Dominican Republic.
Member of the Santo Domingo Health Cluster from April 2019. The entity seeks to create synergies taking advantage of competitiveness and quality of the health services in the province of Santo Domingo.
President & CEO of Healthcare Management Solutions (www.cghim.com). From 2011. This is a consulting and management firm located in Santo Domingo and Miami with a focus on integrated healthcare solutions and the medical tourism arm of Healthcare Management Solutions. HMS currently manages a network of four sites in Santo Domingo.
Faculty Harvard Affiliated Disaster Medicine Fellowship/ Dignitary Protective Medicine (DPM) Program since 2011. On his profile he explains that in 2008 he became the first Emergency Physician to serve as appointed member of the Harvard Medical School Committee on Continuing Medical Education.
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1 April 2020