Claudia Santiesteban Garcia, MD

Description

Claudia Garcia, M.D., is a primary care physician with Baptist Health Primary Care. She provides preventive care, annual physicals and sports physicals, screening tests, chronic disease management and healthy lifestyle counseling to patients. Her clinical interests include preventive medicine and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.     Prior to joining Baptist Health, Dr. Garcia was a primary care physician at Chen Senior Medical Center in Miami, Fla. She is an associate faculty member at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, serving as a primary care preceptor for first-year medical students.  Dr. Garcia earned her medical degree at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Fla.                                                              Dr. Garcia strives to provide compassionate, evidenced-based medicine. To provide personalized care, she takes time to listen to her patients. She also stays current with medical literature so she can provide her patients with the most up-to-date care. Dr. Garcia is fluent in English and Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, the outdoors and reading novels.