Agueda Hernández

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.