Manuel Suarez

Manuel "Manny" Suarez, MD, has been involved in the management and supervision of ancillary medical staffs, medical residents, and medical students since receiving his medical degree in 1981. Dr. Manny Suarez serves as the Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit, Ventilator Impaired Unit, and the Pulmonary Department at Larkin Community Hospital. Larkin is a main DO and MD teaching hospital in South Miami, Florida.

Dr. Manny Suarez was a pioneer in the treatment of outpatient ventilator dependent patients when he was appointed Director of the first Miami-based Ventilator Dependent Unit at West Gables Rehabilitation Hospital in 2001. Dr. Manuel Suarez has also served as Principal Investigator and Sub Investigator at medical research firms throughout South Florida. Over the course of his career, Dr. Manny Suarez's research has been published numerous times in well-recognized medical peer review journals such as the American Journal of Medicine, American Review of Respiratory Disease, and CHEST. He is currently a co-author of a book titled Case Files, Critical Care Medicine (McGraw-Hill).

Since 2008, Dr. Manuel Suarez has been on the teaching faculty of family practice and internal medicine residency programs at Larkin. Dr. Manuel Suarez has also taught internationally, sharing his medical insight, administrative expertise, and research with different medical schools and hospitals. Dr. Manny Suarez served as a Visiting Professor of Medicine at St. George's School of Medicine in Grenada and as a Professor of Medicine and Pulmonary Diseases and Pulmonary Physiology at the Trinity School of Medicine in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine with the Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies. He became Dean of Clinical Studies at the Trinity School of Medicine from 2009 to 2012. He has medical ABIM board certification in the specialties of internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, critical care medicine, and separate special training in Age Management Medicine.

Manuel Suarez, MD, received his medical degree in 1981 from the Universidad Central del Este School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic, where he graduated with the top board exam score in his class. He did his residency in internal medicine at St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey.