Why Choose Us

As South Florida’s only university-based health care system, our research-driven medical care is supplemented by today’s health care experts who teach tomorrow’s talented medical minds – and are focused on providing care that is tailored to best serve patients.

Comprehensive Care

We treat patients who have Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, secondary and genetic forms of diabetes, highly complicated diabetes, and diabetes during pregnancy.

A team of specialists manages all aspects of diabetes and any complications, creating a complete and tailored treatment plan for patients that includes:

• Individualized Medical Management: This approach ensures better outcomes through personalized chronic disease management.
• Education: Patients will learn to lead healthier lives through diabetes care training, including nutritional counseling.
• High-risk Care: We provide preventive surveillance and interventions for high risk pre-diabetes patients.
• Device Assistance: This includes insulin pump training and continuous glucose monitoring.
• TELEVIGILANCE^™: Medical services and healthcare services are provided by the University of Miami Health System using Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) to provide clinical insight into a patient’s physiological profile outside the clinical setting.
  
  If you are a new patient, call 305-243-3636 and select option 2 to schedule a visit.
  
  If you are an established patient, please discuss this with your doctor during your next visit.

Our Specialists

The team is led by the Director of the Comprehensive Diabetes Center and Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, M.D., Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. Our staff includes:

This multidisciplinary approach ensures patients with diabetes get the most advanced medical care, education, and aggressive prevention and management of complications all at one location.

Convenient Locations

Patients can receive care at two locations:

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