Cardiology and Vascular Medicine Physician Rene Quiroz, MD, MPH is Board Certified in Cardiology, Vascular Medicine and Echocardiography, is a registered physician in vascular interpretation and a Certified Specialist in clinical hypertension.
Dr. Quiroz excelled in math as a child, and was expected to follow in his father and brother's footsteps to become an engineer. In high school, however, he became fascinated with biology, anatomy and chemistry and how the body works. He decided to pursue medical school, and recognized how much physiology overlapped with engineering. Later, the study of hemodynamics, how blood flows in our bodies, like math, just made sense. But it was the human connection - talking to patients about their heart problems - that cemented his passion for cardiology.
Born in El Paso, Texas and raised in Mexico, Dr. Quiroz went to medical school at Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He then enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health where he completed a Master's degree in public health. He stayed on for another two years as a research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Quiroz was selected to complete his internal medicine residency at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital - the main teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He stayed in Boston and completed his fellowship in Cardiology at Boston Medical Center, the teaching hospital affiliated with Boston University, where he could also focus on vascular medicine.
Prior to joining Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio in 2013, Dr. Quiroz completed the NHLBI Research Career Development Program in Vascular Medicine at Boston Medical Center.