After Completing Medical School in Costa Rica and Internal Medicine Residency at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Henao went to the University of Colorado where he underwent fellowship training in Infectious disease and Transplant Infectious diseases. His clinical/research interests include caring for the immunosuppressed host, addressing disparities in healthcare and culturally competent care. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Infectious Diseases Section in the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Outside of medicine he enjoys hiking, reading, eating Latin food, working out and salsa dancing.
Academic Section(s):
Infectious Diseases
Education:
Medical School – MD: Escuela Autónoma de Ciencias Médicas de Centroamérica (UCIMED), San Jose, Costa Rica
Board Certification(s):
Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Residency:
Internal Medicine: Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fellowship:
Infectious Diseases: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Transplant Infectious Diseases: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Memberships:
American College of Physicians
Infectious Diseases Society of America
American Society of Transplantation
Clinical/Research Interests:
Infections in transplant recipients
Health Equity, Improving care for Hispanics/Minorities
Select Publications:
Henao C JA, Valverde Muñoz K, Ávila A ML. Hemolytic anemia as the first clinical presentation of Wilson disease: a pediatric case. Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria. 2016, Dec; 1:114(6): e436-e439.. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 27869428.
Cordero, J.H., Shepard, Z., Schultz, J. et al. Dermatologic Manifestations of Tick-borne Diseases in Travelers. Curr Trop Med Rep 8, 99–103 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-021-00230-9
Higuita NA, Suarez JA, Millender E, Creighton EG, Corbisiero MF, Freites CO, Cordero JH, Kousari A, Unterborn R, Marcos LA, Henao-Martínez AF, Jhangimal M, Pon AY, Tuells J, Gonzalez-Díaz E, Franco-Paredes C, Erausquin JT, Pinzon-Espinosa J, Baird M, Pachar-Flores M, Ordaz M, Cabezas-Talavero G, Katz J, Gonzalez JA, Obando R, Alvarez FR, Naranjo L, Madrid A, Pecchio I, Vistica G, Nakad C, Reina A, Díaz Y, Chen RR, Meng M, Alvarado YW, Nicholls SB, Sanchez J, Rincὁn T, Viquez D, Owen D, Pascale JM, Gabster A; Migrant Peoples in Transit Study Group. U.S. bound journey of migrant peoples InTransit across Dante's Inferno and Purgatory in the Americas. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2022 May-Jun;47:102317. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102317. Epub 2022 Mar 24. PMID: 35342009.
Unterborn R, Henao-Cordero J, Kousari A, Ramanan P, Franco-Paredes C, Madinger N. False-positive rapid diagnostic test for malaria in new world cutaneous leishmaniasis: a tale of two travelers. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2022 May 9;9:20499361221097791. doi: 10.1177/20499361221097791. PMID: 35572813; PMCID: PMC9092576.
Vargas Barahona L, Henao-Cordero J, Smith J, Gray A, Marshall CB, Scherger S, Bajrovic V, Koullias Y. Disseminated tuberculosis in a lung transplant recipient presenting as tenosynovitis, subcutaneous nodules, and liver abscesses. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 20;9:20499361221132153. doi: 10.1177/20499361221132153. PMID: 36311553; PMCID: PMC9597014.