Family physician and researcher in training, serving one of the most Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. Continuity. Language. Trust. These are not extras — they are the point.
How I practice
Family medicine is built on continuity. I want to know my patients across years, not visits — the person in front of me and the people behind them.
Read more about my philosophyClinical work
Diabetes, hypertension, and lipid management carried over years rather than visits — titrating deliberately, revisiting what the patient can actually sustain, and treating a stalled A1c as a question about someone's life rather than a failure of will.
Age-appropriate screening, immunization, and cardiovascular risk reduction, with attention to the step that is most often skipped: making sure the result comes back, gets explained, and turns into a decision.
Full clinical fluency in Spanish and English. Consent, counseling, and bad news are delivered in the patient's own language — not through a relative, and not in a register that leaves them nodding at something they did not follow.
Well-child checks, adolescent and adult primary care, women's health, and geriatrics within one continuous relationship — the particular advantage of family medicine is that these are not separate patients.
Research
I study the intersection of language, culture, and access in primary care. My goal is to generate evidence that improves care for communities like mine.
Investigating how direct physician–patient Spanish communication reduces diagnostic errors and improves treatment adherence compared with interpreted encounters — and what that means for how residency programs should recruit and train.
Read moreA longitudinal evaluation of how establishing a primary care home mitigates emergency department overutilization in recently arrived immigrant households, measured across generations of the same family.
Read moreSocioeconomic and linguistic barriers to colorectal and mammography screening completion in predominantly Spanish-speaking zip codes — and the small, cheap interventions that move completion rates.
Read moreWriting
Plain-language writing for patients, families, and anyone who wants to understand medicine better.
The two numbers explained in plain language, why the bottom one matters more than you were told, and why a single elevated reading is not a diagnosis.
Read moreManaging blood glucose without abandoning Cuban, Hispanic, and Caribbean cooking — practical glycemic adjustments for rice, beans, and plantains.
Read moreWe measure continuity of care in scheduling metrics. We should measure it in what it detects — and what it prevents.
Read moreMy story
I trained in Camagüey, Cuba, where medicine begins with the neighborhood and the household. Work in genetics, dermatology, elder care, and urgent care taught me to stay curious under pressure. After emigrating, I worked, studied, and rebuilt a path into U.S. medicine. Every step made the same lesson clearer: care is strongest when it is skilled, curious, and kind.
Read my story“If you have talent for something, you should not bury it but multiply it.”
— J.B.Open to opportunities that combine clinical excellence, research, and meaningful care.
If you are building a team that shares these values, I would love to connect.