Dr. Juan J. Cintrón-García was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Sciences and Master of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico. He is a graduate of Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine, in Guadalajara México. He has always been inspired by how small health interventions can have an impact in communities. He helped in the assessment of a health education program in a developing community in rural Haiti after 2010 earthquake. He completed his internal medicine training at Damas Hospital, Ponce Health Sciences University, after which he became board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has completed a blood banking/transfusion medicine and apheresis fellowship training at the Medical College of Georgia, followed by a bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy fellowship training at the University of Utah-Huntsman Cancer Institute. Currently he is training in geriatric medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University.

Topics of interest: Immunotherapy, Cellular Therapy, Geriatric Rehabilitation, Social Determinants of Health.