Profile

Jorge Bordenaves’ future as a physician was never in question as he was born in Havana Cuba, to a well respected physician father and mother who had a PhD in education. His paternal grandfather was also the towns’ doctor as was his father before him.

Dr. Bordenave did his medical internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. Being a community teaching hospital he was exposed to a wide range of pathology and medical conditions early on. While rotating through the Intensive Care Units, he became interested in the heart and conditions that affected the cardiovascular system. Under supervision, he also perform a multitude of invasive cardiac procedures, which further increased his interest in this field of medicine. Having successfully completed the internship, he received several offers for his second and third year position in internal medicine residency, and he chose to leave NY for a new city and relocated to Chicago.

Having fallen in love with cardiology, and after years away from Miami in Medical School, internship and residency, he applied to and was accepted at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, for their three year Cardiology Fellowship.

While at Mt. Sinai in addition to the clinical cardiology, he also became proficient in Cardiac Catheterizations and Transesophageal Echocardiography, having performed many of these procedures.

Always interested in continuing education advancement and in the latest technological developments, while in his third year of cardiology fellowship he took it upon himself to seek out and learn about a new field of cardiology, called Nuclear Cardiology. Before Nuclear Cardiology teaching became an accepted and approved cardiology program, part of certain cardiology training programs, Dr. Bordenave became one of the first Cardiologist in South Florida to actively practice the field.

During his training he had the opportunity to work with an early pioneer of what is now ultrafast CT Imaging, Dr. A. Agatson on new imaging techniques. Using Imatron Imaging, which was a precursor of Ultrafast CT scans, he worked with Dr. Agaston on quantifying the severity of calcium in coronary arteries, which ultimately developed into the Agatson score used today as part of the assessment done in CT Angiography.

During the last year of fellowship he was offered 1 of only 2 slots available for a fourth year of Interventional Cardiology, a prestigious honor which he declined.

Since 1993, Dr. Bordenave has been in private practice, first at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and currently in Coral Gables and South Miami. During the first several years he performed several hundred Cardiac Catheterizations. To be able to better serve his patients including the more important aspect of being a physician that is in educating patients, he stopped doing the time consuming invasive caths, and devoted his practice to Non Invasive Clinical Cardiology. Currently he has an office based practice but to stay current and exposed to a wider range and severity of pathology, he continues to make hospital rounds on weekends.

In keeping with his love of learning and staying current, he is currently doing a part time Fellowship, (his third residency), this time in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and has been accepted into the Masters in Public Health program at John Hopkins University, Baltimore.

In addition he is on the teaching faculty of Florida International University, College of Medicine.