M.D., MBA, FCCP, FCCM
Jose R. Yunén, M.D., FCCP, FCCM was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He attended the Carol Morgan School in Santo Domingo. He then obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology from Boston College, Massachusetts. Upon completion of his bachelor’s degree he joined the Masters in Physiology and Biophysics Program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. He went on to complete his Medical Degree at the Universidad Central del Caribe; one of four Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accredited US Schools in Puerto Rico.
Dr. Yunén completed his internship, residency in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Surgical Critical Care, and Neurocritical care fellowships at The Mount Sinai Hospital Health System in New York City. He is an American Board Certified on all four specialties. He joined the Critical Care Division at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in July 2005 where he became the youngest Medical Director in the United States of a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit.
Currently, Dr. Yunén is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Emeritus Director of the Cardiothoracic Unit at Montefiore Medical Center. In October2008 he was awarded the designation of Fellow for the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP) and in February 2016 awarded Fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM).
He is the editor of Wolters Kluwer Lippincott’s Williams & Wilkins book “The 5- Minute ICU Consult” published in December 2011 with a revised-Spanish edition in 2014. He is well-trained in critical care sonography and was the first to train United Nations doctors in portable ultrasound during his mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
Dr. Yunén has received several awards including “Juan Manuel Taveras Excellence Award” from CEDIMAT in 2009 and 2012, distinguished Carol Morgan Alumni Award 2010 and Jaycees "72- Young Outstanding of the Dominican Republic” in 2009 from the United States Junior Chamber, and CEDIMAT's Institutional Special Award for Distinguished Leader in 2016. He has been a speaker in multiple international medical conferences as well as speaker for TEDx Santo Domingo in 2015, with the theme "Intensive Care without walls".
Voted among the “Top 40 under 40” entrepreneurs by the well-known Dominican magazine ¨Mercado¨ in 2010 and in 2021 voted "The Best of Dominican Republic 2021 as Healthcare Hero". " Ranked nationally in Dominican Republic # 1 for Internal Medicine specialty for six consecutive years 2014-2020 by “Best Doctors” by the magazine "MediHealth". Since 2015, Dr. Yunén is the first physician and one of only 92 Dominican chapters of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).
Dr. José R. Yunén created the first Critical Care Medicine residency in the Dominican Republic, affiliated with INTEC Medical School. Now on its tenth cohort at CEDIMAT the residency has provided high quality doctors and critical care training for the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, this initiative was keen during COVID -19 Pandemic. He served as the President of the Dominican Society of Critical Medicine (SODEMECU) from 2012 to 2014. His major contribution was to successfully combine the two leading intensive therapy societies in the North and South which had been separated for more than 25 years. While this unified society was for the first time endorsed by the Dominican Medical Association. He was recognized by this society in 2015 as the "Unifying Body" for Critical Medicine in the Dominican Republic. For this same reason, he has been a board member of COCECATI (Central American and Caribbean Intensive Therapy Consortium) since 2016.
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Yunén created Critical Care Solutions in 2014 – a company dedicated to improving the care, supply and management of intensive therapies throughout the country. This company switched from a service to a retail driven model. Dr. Yunén also created “Consular Medical Services”; one of two centers certified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the medical examination of the United States Embassy called "Panel Physicians". Consular Medical Services (www.smc.net.do) examines thousands of applicants per year – a mandatory process for immigrants to the United States in the Dominican Republic.
Due to all its initiatives, Dr. Yunén has structured the company “Health Management Group” (www.hmgconsulting.net), which integrates a board of financial advisors, legal, marketing, commercial, computer research and process engineers to plan, view and operate the different operational and consultancy initiatives.
He is President of Grupo Yunen which includes a regulated Health Risk Administrator ARS Yunén (ARS Yunén) and Insurance Company (seguros Yunen), both are large sized companies in the Dominican Republic integrating the public private sector.
He currently serves as an advisor to the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors and President of the Medical Board at CEDIMAT, as well as member of the O&M Medical School Advisory Board (www.oymed.edu.do) and member of the Advisory Board for the Dominican Association of Health Tourism.
Dr. Jose R. Yunén is a member of the Latin American Leadership Committee, part of the Latin American Board (LATAM) of Georgetown University since 2016. He completed the "Global Executive Masters in Business Administration (MBA)" at Georgetown University in July 2018. He is the first Latin American doctor to be in the history of to complete GEMBA in its tenth edition.
Dr. José R. Yunen is part of the Dominican National Task Force against the fight on COVID -19 by the decree 141-20. He now serves as the current medical advisor, liason and coordinator of all international tourists in the Dominican Republic for the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism.