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SALUTE TO PHYSICIANS A Special Thank

You to the

BROWARD HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER February 2018

Celso Agner, MD Host of the South

Celso Agner, M.D., is board certified in Neurology and Vascular Neurology and has been practicing Florida Healthcare
in this field since 2004. After finishing fellowship training in neurological critical care/stroke and
interventional neuroradiology at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, he joined the
University of Illinois at Chicago as an assistant professor of neurosurgery in 2006. Dr. Agner also Networking Group
served as a neurologist/interventional neurologist and director of the neurointerventional program at
Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center, St. John Hospital, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital and
Oakwood Hospital in Michigan. While completing his visiting fellowship training at the Medical
College of Wisconsin, Dr. Agner served as an on-staff neurologist at hospitals in Illinois and
Wisconsin.
Dr. Agner has been published in more than 40 publications including national and international AVENTURA
journals and has authored more than 10 book chapters and has had more than 60 abstracts published
throughout his career. HOSPITAL
Dr. Agner is fluent in English, his native Portuguese, Spanish, German and French.
AND MEDICAL
Hector Rodriguez-Cortes, MD CENTER

Hector Rodriguez-Cortes, M.D., is board certified in both pediatric hematology oncology and pedi-
atric palliative care. For information about
Dr. Rodriguez-Cortes earned his medical degree at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. our next meeting of
He completed a pediatric internship and pediatric residency at University Pediatric Hospital,
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. He completed a pediatric hematology oncology fellow- SFHNG,
ship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. please email
Dr. Rodriguez-Cortes serves as the Medical Director and Principal Investigator of the Children’s
Oncology Group at Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital, a clinical trial group dedicated to curing charles@
and controlling cancer in children and adolescents. He also serves as the Assistant Director of the southfloridahospitalnews.com
Pediatric Residency Program at Broward Health.
Dr. Rodriguez-Cortes has a special interest in sickle cell disease and bleeding disorders and has been
actively involved in developing an educational conference series for healthcare providers in the area
of sickle cell disease and oncology. He has also been involved in creating awareness for childhood can-
cer throughout the community with many notable children’s foundations.
Dr. Rodriguez-Cortes is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Society of Pediatric Hematology
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