jorge.santana3@upr.edu
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Jorge L. Santana-Bagur, MD., is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in San Juan. He is the Director and Principal Investigator for the Advanced Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) conducting HIV/HCV clinical research at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Science Campus since 1993.

Received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Puerto Rico,

Dr. Santana-Bagur earned a medical degree from the Universidad Del Caribe School of Medicine in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in 1982. He completed his senior residency at the Waterbury Hospital Health Center, affiliated with Yale-New Haven Hospital, in 1985. He completed a fellowship in the infectious diseases program at the University of Puerto Rico / VA training program in 1988.

Dr. Santana is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA) and Past President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Puerto Rico. He is a member of the Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is an active faculty of the Medical Science Campus AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Advisory Committee and was an Advisory Board Provider for the CDC’s Morbidity Monitoring Project in HIV/AIDS. He is a past recipient of the Puerto Rico Medical Association’s Purdue Frederick Award (First Prize), Lifetime Achievement Award from the Puerto Rico HIV Treaters Medical Association and received an Ad Honorem Distinction from the Infectious Diseases Society of the Dominican Republic. Serves as Associate Editor of the Puerto Rico Health Science Journal and has published articles in journals such as as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, the Annals of Internal Medicine, Ethnicity & Disease, the Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal and the AIDS Journal.