Biographical summary
Dr. Cardenas is the current Medical Director of the International Medicine Practice subsection of the General Internal Medicine Department at the Mayo Clinic Florida. He is the Internal Medicine division champion of Digital Transformation and a former Vice Chair of the Association of Latinos at Mayo Clinic and a committee member of the Mayo Clinic International Activities Subcommittee at the enterprise level.
Dr. Cardenas is originally from Toluca, Mexico, graduated from med school at the Universidad Anahuac México Norte. After graduation, he performed 2 years of clinical research at the Texas Heart
Institute and St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital/Texas Medical Center in Houston and did his specialty in Internal Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He is a former adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio. During the COVID-19 pandemics he was very active sharing and promoting best medical practices as a medical correspondent for Univision 41.
Member of state and national committees including the ACP Florida Chapter Communications Committee and the Social Media Committee of the American Medical Association.
He is a current member of the ACP’s Abstract Review Committee for the national and state (Florida) competitions. He is a former BMJ reviewer.
Dr. Cardenas strongly advocates and provides information and advice to other IMG’s through his Instagram account @dr.juancarlosmd with more than 10K followers.
Dr. Cardenas has successfully given oral presentations nationally and internationally, publishing articles, book chapters and abstracts in high renowned journals. Along with actively
participating as an interviewee in different TV/Radio media outlets such as Univision, Telemundo, CNN en español, Grupo Imagen (Mexico), Uniradio (Mexico), La Nacion (Argentina) Mayo Clinic News Network and writing health related articles for Vogue Mexico, Reader's Digest Selecciones de Mexico, el Heraldo de Mexico, el Clarín de Argentina, Yahoo France, Top Santé France, and Seattle Times.
Interests
- International Medicine
- Cardiovascular Preventive Medicine
- Post COVID-19 conditions
- Preventive Medicine
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2015
Residency - Internal MedicineTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center at the Permian Basin
- 2008
MDUniversidad Anahuac
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2016
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine
Awards and honors
- 2020
Medical CorrespondentUnivision 41.
- 2019
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX
- 2006
The Angeles Clinica Londres Hospital Poster Contest WinnerLondres Hospital
Professional memberships
- 2024 - present
Commiittee MemberCenter for Digital Health - Florida
- 2024 - present
Commiittee MemberAmerican College of Physicians
- 2024 - present
Commiittee MemberInnovation Advocates
- 2024 - present
MemberACP Florida
- 2024 - present
MemberInternational Activities Subcommittee
- 2023 - present
MemberAmerican College of Physicians
- 2023
JudgeACP Florida
- 2023 - present
MemberACP Florida
- 2023
MemberACP Florida
- 2023 - present
ChampionDepartment of Internal Medicine
- 2022 - present
Abstract ReviewerAmerican College of Physicians
- 2022 - present
JudgeACP Florida
- 2022 - present
Committee MemberAmerican Medical Association
- 2022 - present
MemberAmerican Medical Association
- 2022 - 2024
Vice-ChairAssociation of Latinos at Mayo (ALMA)
- 2020 - 2021
Co-DirectorEducation Committee, Gonzaba Medical Group
- 2020
MemberAbstract Review Board for 2020 ACP National Abstract Competition, American College of Physicians
- 2019
MemberAbstract Review Board, American College of Physicians
- 2019
JudgeNational Poster Finals 2019 Internal Medicine Meeting, American College of Physicians
- 2019 - present
FellowAmerican College of Physicians
- 2019 - present
MentorGeneral Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program, Texas Chapter, American College of Physicians
- 2018
Abstract and Case ReviewerAmerican College of Physicians, Abstract Review Board for 2018 ACP National Abstract Competition
Publications