MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Miami Beach Community Health Center (MBCHC) board certified endocrinologist Dr. Ramon E. Martinez recently collaborated with the Hormone Health Network in developing content on osteoporosis and bone health for their Bone Health Digital Toolkit. The Endocrine Society’s Hormone Health Network is the nation’s endocrine patient education resource.
Dr. Martinez, Executive Vice President of Medical Education and Research at MBCHC, completed medical school in Caracas, Venezuela and continued his medical training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. Subsequently, he did a Geriatric & Gerontology fellowship at the University of Miami, and finally an Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Martinez is board certified in all three specialties. During his endocrinology fellowship, Dr. Martinez was selected for, and completed with distinction, the “Preceptorial in Metabolic Bone Diseases” at Columbia University in New York.
At MBCHC, Dr. Martinez has been principal investigator on more than 10 endocrine-related studies ranging from diabetes to hypercholesterolemia. As part of the administrative team at MBCHC, Dr. Martinez is leading the effort to improve diabetes comprehensive care, hypercholesterolemia treatment, fall prevention, and osteoporosis screening. He has helped MBCHC become the top Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Florida and one of the top in the nation in quality measures for diabetes.
About Miami Beach Community Health Center: Since 1977, Miami Beach Community Health Center has been dedicated to helping the uninsured and underinsured in South Florida obtain affordable, quality medical care. MBCHC is the only full-service ambulatory care health center in Miami Beach offering patients a sliding fee schedule. Visit www.mbchc.org for more information.
About the Hormone Health Network: Established by the Endocrine Society in 1998, the Hormone Health Network (HHN), is the leading national patient education resource on endocrine-related disorders, hormones, and other related topics such as diabetes, thyroid, menopause and healthy living. The Society accomplishes this by working with more than 18,000 Endocrine Society members and other health care professionals to provide up-to-date, clinically accurate information in a variety of engaging and patient-friendly resources available on hormone.org. HHN helps to empower patients to take charge of their own health and wellness and provides accurate, time-saving tools to positively impact their health and well-being by moving them from educated to engaged; and from informed to active partners in their healthcare.
