Mario Reyes Application Package
Mario A. Reyes, M.D., FAAP, FHM
1100 North Venetian Drive
Miami, FL 33139
(305) 377-2722
CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRENT POSITION: Senior Attending Physician.
Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Sedation Services.
Medical Director. Quality. Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
Department of Pediatrics. Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine.
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.
Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
Miami. .Florida.
Assistant Professor. Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.
Florida International University.
OFFICE ADDRESS: 3100 SW 62nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33155-3009
Office: (305) 668-5500 / Fax: (305) 662-8344
E-mail: mario.reyes@mch.com
LICENSURES: Florida Medical License # ME0067202
DEA Certificate # BR 4863329
Diplomat, American Board of Pediatrics Certificate # 060020
ECFMG Certificate # 0-494-021-9
EDUCATION:
6/93-6/96 Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL
General Pediatric Residency Program.
3/92-12/92 University of Miami and Tulane University Schools of Medicine,
“Comprehensive Update in Medical Education.”
9/86-7/ 93 University of Havana School of Medicine, Cuba
Residency and Fellowship: Pediatrics.
First Degree Specialist on Neonatal Medicine.
9/83-9/84 Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas, Villa Clara, Cuba
Postgraduate Course in Biostatistics.
9/77-8/83 Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas, Villa Clara, Cuba
Doctor in Medicine.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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6/1998 -present Attending Physician. Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine.
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. NCHS.
2/2019 - present Medical Director. Quality. Nicklaus Children’s Health System
11/2012-present Attending Physician. Sedation Services. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.
10/2016-2/2019 Physician Leader. Quality and Analytic Department. Nicklaus Children’s
Hospital PSA (Physician Enterprise)
12/2016- 10/2017 Attending Physician. Labor and Delivery Room. The Miami Medical Center.
Miami. Florida.
9/97-12/97 Attending Pediatrician, Emergency Room, Joe DiMaggio Children’s
Memorial Hospital, Hollywood, FL.
12/96-6/98 Attending Pediatrician, NICU and Nursery, Miami Children’s and Mercy
Hospitals, Miami, FL.
9/96-9/97 Attending Pediatrician, Emergency Room, Kendall Regional Medical
Center and Parkway Regional Medical Centers, Miami, FL.
7/93-7/96 Pediatric Residency Training Program, Miami Children's Hospital,
Miami, FL.
1/92-1/93 House Physician (Surgical), Operating Room, Miami Children's
Hospital, Miami, FL.
1/91-11/91 Professor of Morphologic Sciences: Anatomy, Histology and
Embryology School of Medicine, University of Central America,
San Jose, Costa Rica.
10/89-10/90 Attending Neonatologist, National Children’s Hospital “La Mascota,”
Managua, Nicaragua
5/89-10/89 Attending Neonatologist, National Institute of Genetics and
Perinatology, Havana, Cuba
8/86-5/89 Residency/Fellowship in Pediatrics and Neonatal Medicine, Several Children’s
Hospitals in Havana. Cuba.
9/83-6/86 Primary Care in Pediatric and Obstetrics, Rural Hospitals and Clinics,
ACADEMIC and SCHOLARLY EXPERIENCE.
1997 - Present Faculty, Pediatric Residency Program. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. NCHS.
2011- Present Assistant Professor. Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.
Florida International University.
2019/March Faculty Speaker. National CHA/PHIS meeting: “Clinical Effectiveness 101”
2018/July Faculty Speaker. .Plenary Session. National Meeting of Pediatric Hospital
Medicine. “Disaster Preparedness and Delivery of Assistance: The Haiti
Earthquake experience, 2010”
2017/ March Faculty Speaker. Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) national meeting.
Presidential Plenary Session. San Francisco.CA. “Choosing Wisely Campaign
And Achievable Benchmarks of Care for Children’s Hospitals.”
2015/October Faculty Speaker. AAP National Conference and Exhibit. Section on Hospital
Medicine. “The Patient Experience as a Quality Metric in Hospital Medicine.
2000- 2017 Faculty Speaker and Moderator, Nicklaus/ Miami Children’s Hospital
“Perspectives in Pediatrics” International Postgraduate Courses..
2010 Faculty Speaker. Florida Retreat. National Initiative for Pediatric Palliative
Care (IPPC): Bioethics in Pediatrics Palliative Care. Clearwater, Florida
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01/91-11/91 Professor, Anatomy-Histology-Endocrinology courses, Universidad
Autonoma de Centro America School of Medicine, San Jose, Costa Rica
10/89-10/91 Teaching Attending, Neonatal Program, National Children’s Hospital
“La Mascota,” Managua, Nicaragua
06/89-10/99 Attending Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology. National Institute of
Perinatology. Havana, Cuba
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
2/2019- present: Medical Director. Quality. Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
2016–2010 Physician leader. Quality an Analytics Department. Pediatric Specialists of
America (PSA)-Physician Enterprise. Miami Children’s Healthcare System.
2016-Present Bylaws Committee Member. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
2000-Present Bioethics Committee Member. Miami Children’s Hospital
2002- 2015 Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Hospital. MCHS.
2009-2012 Attending and Co-Director, Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT), Miami
Children's Hospital.
2007-2008 Chief Medical Officer. Hospitalists of America, LLC
2007-2008 Graduate Medical Education Committee. Miami Children’s Hospital.
2005-2009 Pediatric Committee member. Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
2005-2010 AvMed HMO Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee
1998-2005 Infection Control Committee, Miami Children’s Hospital
1998-2002 Medical Records Committee, Chairman-Clinical Pertinence Sub-Committee.
Miami Children's Hospital.
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Reyes, M., Etinger,V. Hall, M. Impact of the Choosing Wisely Campaign in Clinical Practices :
Trends from 2008-2013. Journal of Hospital Medicine . Accepted for publication : July , 2019.
2. Reyes, M. A., & Paulus, E. 2017. The Landscape of Quality Measures and Quality Improvement for the
Care of Hospitalized Children in the United States: Efforts Over the Last Decade. Hospital
pediatrics, 7(12), 739-747.
3. Reyes, M., Paulus, E., Hronek, C., Etinger, V., Hall, M., Vachani, J. & Quinonez, R. A. 2017. Choosing
wisely campaign: report card and achievable benchmarks of care for children’s hospitals. Hospital
pediatrics, 7(11), 633-641.
4. Jaffer A, Campo R, Gaski, G, Reyes, M, et al, An Academic Center’s Delivery of Care After the
Haitian Earthquake. Ann Intern Med, 2010; 153:262-265, Vol 4.
5. Reyes M, Mestre MA, Denial or Restriction of Hospital Privileges for Hospitalists. Hospital
Pediatrics AAP. Issue (2): 10-12, 2007.
6. Reyes M, Management of Febrile Children in the Post-Pneumococcal Conjugated Vaccine Era.
International Pediatrics 21: (4) 218-224, 2006.
7. Reyes M, Cotilla MR, Maggioni A, Ramos OM: Liver Abscess Secondary to Streptococcus
Milleri: A Complication of Gastric Biopsy? International Pediatrics 17:151-153, 2002.
8. Maggioni A, Reyes M, Lifshitz F: Evaluation of Pediatric Hospitalist Service by APR-DRG’s:
Impact on Length of Stay and Hospital Charges. Pediatric Research, 49:124A, 2001.
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9. Alfonso I, Hahn J, Papazian O, Martinez Y, Reyes M, Aicardi J: Bilateral Tonic-clonic Epileptic
Seizures in Non-benign Familiar Neonatal Convulsions. Pediatric Neurology, Vol. 116, No. 3,
1997.
10. Altman D, Jayakar P, Reyes M: MRI Abnormalities in Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome. American
Journal of Human Genetics, A93 (509) Supplement, October 1995.
11. Alfonso I, Papazian O, Reyes M: Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury. International Pediatrics, Vol.
10, No. 3, 1995.
12. Reyes M: Internal Feeding of a Newborn Weighing 970 grams with Whole and Fortified Human
Milk. SVEN (Nutritional-Epidimiologic Systems of Vigilance), Vol. 6, July 1990.
13. Reyes M: Neurological Sequelae in the Risk Newborn, International Conference on Advanced
Methods in Neuroscience Bulletin. Preliminary report. Havana, Cuba. 1989.
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:
• Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), Fellow in Hospital Medicine, Inaugural Class, 2009
• American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow, Member and Co-founder of Section on Hospital
Medicine (SOHM).
ELECTED / APPOINTED POSITIONS:
2018-present Elected, Member of the Health Advisory Board. City of Miami Beach. Florida.
2006-2007 Elected, Medical Executive Committee of Miami Children's Hospital.
2005-2009 Appointed to the Society of Hospital Medicine Pediatric Executive Committee.
2007-2008 Appointed “Physician Champion” for South Florida by the Board of the Society
Of Hospital Medicine.
AWARDS:
• 2018 - ‘Hospital Pediatrics’, official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. ‘Jennifer
Daru’ Award to the best article published in 2017 for the significant contribution to the field of
Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Article: Reyes, M., Paulus, E., Hronek, C., Etinger, V., Hall, M., Vachani,
J. & Quinonez, R. A. (2017). Choosing wisely campaign: report card and achievable benchmarks of care
for children’s hospitals. Hospital pediatrics, 7(11), 633-641.
• 2015 -Recognition from Chief Medical Officer and Medical Staff for Excellence as Clinical
Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Miami Children’s Hospital 2002-2015.
2012- Special Award from the CEO “Physician Leader in LEAN Initiatives”. Miami
Children’s Hospital
• 2010-Special Award from the Medical Staff: “Clinical Excellence for Program
Development”: Pediatric Advance Care Team / Palliative Care Services. Miami Children's
Hospital Medical Staff Award 2010.
• 2006 - The South Florida Business Journal: “Excellence in Healthcare Award” Physician of the
Year finalist.
• 2006- AvMed Health Plans: “Hospitalist of Excellence” certificate, April 2006.
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• 2004- The Child Assault Prevention Project (CAP) of South Florida Award : “Honorary
Chairperson,”
• 1996- “Outstanding Resident of the Year,” Greater Miami Pediatric Society.
• 1996- “Agustin Castellanos Award.’ As Outstanding Academic Performance to the Pediatric
Resident of the Year. Miami Children’s Hospital.
VOLUNTEER WORK:
• Consultant on ‘Healthcare Quality’. Global Health Department at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
for the collaboration with the Pediatric Hospital Santa Ana, Medellin, Colombia.
• Medical Team deployed in Haiti at the MediShare / University of Miami Field Hospital after the
earthquake of January 2010. First Team of responders-Lead physician. Pediatric Section of
Medishare field Hospital. Port-Au-Prince. Haiti.
• Physician Leader. Program of Assistance to the Children’s Hospital of the State University
Hospital (Hopital de L’Universite de Etat D’ Haiti). Port-Au Prince. Haiti. 2010-2015
• International Medical Squad in Puerto Limon, providing support to the Costa Rican Red cross,
Costa Rica during April 1991 earthquake.
• “League against Cancer” volunteer physician.
• Leader of a medical team from South Florida that visited Haiti after a disaster caused by
hurricanes, September 2009.
OTHER SKILLS:
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Computer literate, familiar with statistical software and Electronic Health Records
• Personal interests: baseball, softball, international child health, sports.
Revised April, 2018