Dr. Jorge Hernández Denton

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

  • jorge.hernandez30@upr.edu
  • University of Puerto Rico
    Medical Sciences Campus
    School of Medicine
    Gastroenterology Section
  • 787-754-0101, Ext. 5445

Education

  • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 1973, M.D.
  • Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 1969, B.A.

INTERSHIP:

  • University District Hospital (Internal Medicine), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1973-1974

RESIDENCY:

  • University District Hospital (Internal Medicine), San Juan Puerto Rico, 1974-1976

 FELLOWSHIP

  • University District Hospital (Gastroenterology), San Juan Puerto Rico, 1976-1978

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Medical Expert to Social Security in Puerto Rico in internal medicine and gastroenterology, 2002-present

Consultant to Medicare and Triple S, Inc. in Puerto Rico in gastroenterology, 2003-2010

PUBLICATIONS

Fiorilli, M., Hernandez Denton, J., Caamano, Hillyer, G.V., Sotomayor, Z. Human fasciolasis: epidemiological and clinical observations on a cluster of patients from the Caribbean. 27th annual meeting, Am. Soc. Trop. & Hyg., Chicago, Illinois.

Hernandez Denton, J., Zaiter, J., Vicens, M., Torres, E., Rubio, C., Nigaglioni, A. La utilidad de la colangiopancreatografia endoscópica retrograda y la colangiografía percutánea transhepática en la evaluación de la colangitis recurrente: informe de dos casos. Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico 71: 94, 1979.

Hernandez Denton, J., Rubio, C., Velazquez J., Ramirez de Arellano, G. Bacterial endocarditis in cirrhosis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences 26: 935, 1981.

Hernandez Denton, J. Liver biopsy at the University District Hospital, Science-ciencia 8:80 1981.

(Contributor of case material and clinical information with Dr. Manuel Marcial for article: Genta), R., Haggeitt, R. Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins. Gastroenterology 101: 533. 1991.

Marcial, M., Villafañe, M., Hernández Denton, J., Colón, J., Fundic gland polyps: prevalence and clinicopathologic features. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 88:711.1993.