José Luis Díaz-Gómez, M.D., is an experienced cardiovascular anesthesiologist. He facilitated the consolidation of—and now leads—the joint section of Cardiothoracic, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Critical Care at the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor College of Medicine. He is also director of both Critical Care Echocardiography and the Anesthesia and Critical Care Fellowship Program at Baylor. Before coming to Houston, he worked as critical care specialist at Clinica Universitaria Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia, then as a cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was also an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine. Later, he served as a cardiac anesthesiologist, intensivist, and neurointensivist at Mayo Clinic Florida and as an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Science. He then spent a year as an intensivist and critical care ultrasonography consultant for South Florida Critical Care Services.

For more than a decade, Dr. Díaz-Gómez has been an active participant in the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), where he is the representative anesthesiologist on the SCCM Council. With the SCCM, he has worked to improve education about critical care ultrasound and has mentored junior faculty in ultrasound courses and ultrasound committees. He has also elevated training in transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography in his work as the SCCM’s representative with the National Board of Echocardiography.