Dr. Alejandro Mosquera mentors medical students and residents in hospital medicine practice as program director of the FIU/Baptist Health Transitional Year Program.
Mosquera is an internal medicine hospitalist at Baptist Health South Florida with extensive experience in hospital medicine, quality improvement and medical education. Throughout his career, he has held several leadership roles, including medical director of hospital medicine, vice chair of the department of hospital medicine and associate medical director across multiple hospital campuses.
Areas of Expertise
- Hospital medicine leadership
- Healthcare quality and performance improvement
- Hospital operations and patient flow optimization
- Graduate medical education
- Clinical teaching and mentorship
- Multidisciplinary hospital care
Research Interests
- Hospital medicine quality improvement
- Patient throughput and hospital operations
- Care coordination and efficiency
- Clinical education in hospital medicine
Honors & Awards
- Recognition Award for Exemplary Teaching, FIU Medicine, 2018
- Physician of the Month, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, 2018
- Physician of the Year, West Kendall Baptist Hospital, 2014
Committees & Professional Organizations
- Society of Hospital Medicine
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Physicians
- Graduate Medical Education Committee, Baptist Health South Florida
Education
- Residency, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami, Miami, FL
- M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
- BS, Cell Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Pediatrics