General Pediatric Section Clinical Services
Debora Silva, MD
Section Chair
Associate Professor
Debora.silva@upr.edu
Tel – 787-756-4020
Overview
Clinical services provided by the General Pediatrics Section Faculty include inpatient and outpatient settings in multiple clinical sites, such as: University Pediatric Hospital, UPR Hospital at Carolina (Dr. Federico Trilla), and University District Hospital.
Inpatient Services
The University Pediatric Hospital is a tertiary care center which provides the setting of two general pediatrics wards, with a capacity of 20 patients per team. The hospital is the primary site of the General Pediatrics Residency Program. Faculty members serve as attending physicians in the general pediatrics wards, at the Emergency Room and at the Nursery Unit at the University District Hospital. They also act as consulting physicians for patients hospitalized in the surgery ward. Patient conditions range from general pediatrics primary care conditions to patients with complex diagnostic diseases who need specialized care and subspecialty consults.
Our General Pediatric physicians are hospitalist of vast experience in the field and provide high quality clinical care with a high sense of advocacy, empathy, dedication and sensibility.
University Pediatric Hospital – General Pediatric Section Faculty Staff
The University of Puerto Rico Hospital has one general pediatrics ward which consist of patients with general pediatrics conditions ranging from secondary to supratertiary care conditions. Faculty members serve as teaching faculty physicians and clinical care hospitalists. They not only teach students and residents, but also provide direct patient care to the pediatric population including evaluation, admissions and consults at the Emergency Room.
| Débora Silva, MD Section Chair |
Nydia Bonet, MD |
Clemente Díaz, MD |
Maria N. González, MD |
Maria R. González, MD |
Milagros Martin, MD |
Nerián Ortiz, MD |
Idith Ortiz, MD |
María Padilla, MD |
Elizabeth Pagán, MD |
Yasmin Pedrogo, MD |
Olga Perez, MD |
Myrna Quiñones, MD |
Maria C. Quintero, MD |
Mayra Vizcarrondo, MD |
Irma Febo, MD |
Belinda Beauchamp, MD |
Licette Flores, MD |
Lisette Lugo, MD |
Brenda Mirabal, MD |
Yolanda Gómez, MD |
Gladys González |
Luis Marti, MD |
Julia Malavet, MD |
Nitza H. Rivera, MD |
Contact for patient’s admissions and transfers:
Dra. Myrna Quiñones
Professor
Medical Director
Telephone: 787- 777- 3535
email: myrna.quinonez@upr.edu
University Hospital at Carolina, Puerto Rico - General Pediatric Section Faculty Staff
| Edith Calderon, MD |
Jeanette Lube, MD |
Juanita Negron, MD |
Annie Guiven,M.D. |
Ileana Rivera, MD |
Jorge Rivera MD |
Glenda Martínez MD |
Contact for patient’s admissions and transfers:
Dra. Ileana Rivera
Associate Professor
Clinical Site Education Coordinator
UPR Hospital at Carolina PR
Telephone: 787-757-1800 Ext 566
email: ileana.rivera9@upr.edu
University District Hospital – General Pediatric Section Faculty Staff
The University District Hospital (UDH) serves as the General Pediatric Section site for education and service at the Nursery Unit. The Unit is located on the second floor of the University District Hospital (UDH) at the Puerto Rico Medical Center right across the University Pediatric Hospital. The unit admits newborn babies born at UDH that need standard newborn care and also those which need low level care. Section Faculty serve as teaching faculty and clinical service physicians for well babies and hospitalized babies providing direct teaching to medical students and residents.
Contact for patient’s admissions and transfers:
Dr. Maria Quintero
Associate Professor
Nursery Unit Director
University District Hospital (UDH)
Telephone: (787)754-0101 x3630, 2254, 3319
email: maria.quintero3@upr.edu
Physical Address:
Nursery Unit
University District Hospital, 2nd floor
Puerto Rico Medical Center, San Juan, P.R.
Postal Address:
Department of Pediatrics
UPR Medical Sciences Campus
PO Box 365067
San Juan, PR 00936-5067
Outpatient Services:
The Clinic of the School of Medicine (La Clínica de la Escuela de Medicina-CEM) offers the services of two General Pediatricians through the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine intramural clinical practice program. The clinics are open to all general pediatric population age newborn to 21 years old. Primary clinical care is provided by appointment as well as to walk in patients. We also provide follow up to patients who are referred to us by our faculty and residents after they are discharged from the University Pediatric Hospital, the UPR Hospital or the University District Hospital. An infusion clinic is available at the CEM where pediatric patients who require administration of intravenous (IV) medications (short term or long term maintenance therapy) can be referred to receive their treatment with direct supervision by qualified and dedicated pediatricians, throughout all the infusion period.
Contact for appointments:
Dr. Lisette Lugo
Associate Professor
lisette.lugo@upr.edu
Dr. Licette Flores
Associate Professor
licette.flores@upr.edu
Telephone: 787-758-7910 (for appointments)
Physical Address:
La Clínica de la Escuela de Medicina (CEM)
2nd Floor
Centro Comercial Reparto Metropolitano
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Postal Address:
Department of Pediatrics
UPR Medical Science Campus
P.O. Box 5067
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936