Dr. Marcos Charles Santana, Health Legacy, award, celebrates, his legacy, the contributions, of more than 54 years, to our community, in New York, in the area of medicine, and Community services, of Dr. Marcos Charles, recognizes his dedication to teaching, for 47 years, through the Albert Einstein College University, which allowed more than 400 doctors, Latinos, and other nationalities, to enter the medical residency program, in various hospitals, of New York, such as Lincoln Hospital, Bronx Lebanon, Hospital, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY and recognizes their contribution, as co-founder of several institutions, among them “Hostos community college”, the study institute Dominicans, from City college, of Cunny, New York, also co-founder of the first association of Dominican doctors abroad, 44 years ago. During this year we have the great honor of presenting this award to Dr. Sixto Caro, Sunday May 16, 2021, 1pm.
Dr.Sixto caro, recipiente 2021.
HISPANIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION INC.N.Y.
SIXTO CARO MD BIOGRAPHY.
He was born in Dajabon,Dominican Republic, the 7Th child of a family of 10 children. After studying from 1st grade to 12th grade in The Colegio de la Salle in Santo Domingo, capital, he went to The University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, completing his Bachelor degree in Sciences. Subsequently he went to study Medicine at The University of Barcelona,Spain, followed by a Postgraduate Residency in Internal Medicine at Hospital San Pau of Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.
Dr. Caro came to the United States and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine in Yale-Affiliated Hospital at Danbury,Connecticut and at Cabrini Hospital in New York City in 1978. After that he worked in the Department of Medicine at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx until 1979, where he worked under the supervision of Doctor Marcos Charles, and went that year into private practice in General Internal Medicine in the community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Gramercy Park in Manhattan, and as an Attending physician in the Medicine Department at Cabrini Medical Center in New York.
After Cabrini Hospital closed in 2008, he joined the Department of Medicine Faculty at NYU School of Medicine- NYULMC until the present time. He is also affiliated with Mount Sinai School Of Medicine (Beth Israel) in NYC.
In 2005 he was president of the Spanish American Medical Dental Society of NY and organized that year the Medical Education Congress at NYU.
Since 2002 he has been a Board of Health Member at the NY City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to the present time.
His personal interests include music, arts and cultural events and studied piano in his High School years in Dominican Republic. Currently he is a medical team member of the Metropolitan Opera and American Ballet Theater at Lincoln Center,NYC.
A humanitarian aspect of his Medical career includes múltiple Medical operatives in Dominican Republic, Nicaragua,Colombia, Haiti,Uganda and Djibouti in Africa.
He is the father of a daughter and a son, a grandfather of two children.
