Dr. Carrasquillo is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine.  He is a Puerto Rican born physician who was raised in the Bronx. He obtained his MD degree from the New York University School of Medicine and completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.   

For thirteen years he served as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Miami.  

Dr. Carrasquillo now serves as co-Director of the University’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute whose mission is to drive research translation into evidence-based clinical and community practices to improve the health of South Florida’s diverse population.  He is a national expert in minority health, health disparities, community based participatory research, access to care and community health worker interventions.  He has over twenty-five years of experience leading large NIH Center grants and randomized trials, totaling over $120 million in funding. His work includes research in diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, HIV, cancer and most recently in precision medicine.   Among projects where serves as PI include the University of Miami’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Southeast Enrollment Center for the NIH”s All of Us Program and the Florida Community-Engaged Research Alliance in Communities Disproportionately Affected by Health Inequities (FL-CEAL). 

Dr. Carrasquillo is Chair of the Editorial Board for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and a member of the NHLBI Advisory Council and the Clinical Trials Advisory Committee for PCORI.  In Miami, he is a Board Member of the Miami-Dade Area Health Education Center and the South Florida Health Council. He is often called upon by the media to discuss his research as well as health care topics of particular relevance to the Hispanic community.