Dr. Carlos Quesada, MD – Beverly Hills, CA

Dr. Carlos Quesada is a board-certified physician in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular diseases, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac computed tomography, vascular imaging, and internal medicine. Most recently, Dr. Quesada completed training in interventional and structural cardiology at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester). Dr. Quesada earned his medical degree and graduated summa cum laude from Universidad La Salle (Mexico City) in 2007. As a medical student, he trained at the National Health Institutes, a group of public hospitals that provide high-level health care to the most underserved populations in Mexico. After medical school, he attended Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York) to study the mechanisms responsible for orchestrating the healing response and the therapeutic targets for attenuation of adverse remodeling following cardiac injury. He also conducted research on genetic polymorphisms associated with cardiovascular diseases in the Mexican population. Dr. Quesada also completed a dual residency in internal medicine and global health equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston), a Harvard teaching hospital. During this time, Dr. Quesada worked in Haiti, Rwanda, Mexico City, and Geneva. He also worked at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative supporting projects on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). He co-founded Global Poverty Project 2030, a global initiative to support and promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, Dr. Quesada earned his M.P.H. degree from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2018, Dr. Quesada completed the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles). Dr. Quesada also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Guía EXARMED, a top general medicine treatise which aids in the training of medical students and primary care providers of lower- and middle-income regions within Mexico and Latin America.