Gloria Rodriguez-vega MD, FACP, FCCP, MCCM

Gloria Rodriguez-Vega, MD, FACP, FCCP, MCCM is internal medicine, critical care, and neurocritical care specialist. A Magna Cum Laude graduate from Cornell University, and later Cum Laude from Universidad Central del Caribe, SOM, she finished her IM residency at the VA Caribbean Healthcare System and afterward completed her CCM fellowship at TMH/Brown University. She returned to her beloved PR to direct the VACHS Surgical ICU for six years. After 4 years directing the UDH Neurosurgical ICU, she moved in 2010 to direct the Neurosurgical ICU at HIMA-San Pablo Caguas, a private hospital conglomerate on the Island.

At present, she is also Chief, of the Department of Critical Care Medicine. She is currently involved in numerous national and international societies. She is a council member of SCCM ( Society of Critical Care Medicine), council member of FEPIMCTI, president-elect of COCECATI, and past president of the PR Society of Critical Care Medicine. She has been a speaker at the local, national and international levels and has publications in peer-reviewed journals, authored book chapters and is co-editor of the published book Critical Care Administration: a comprehensive clinical guide and soon-to-be published Lessons from the frontline.