Carlos R. Manrique Neira, MD

Biography

Dr. Manrique earned his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at Montefiore Medical Center/AECOM in New York. He also pursued additional subspecialty training in Cardio-Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Dr. Manrique is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), where he practices in the Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation. He also serves as Director of the Cardio-Oncology and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy programs.

His clinical and research interests include acute and chronic heart failure, cardiovascular complications of cancer and cancer therapies, cardiogenic shock, the use of percutaneous mechanical circulatory support devices, and complications related to ventricular assist devices. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in cardiology. Dr. Manrique is fluent in English and Spanish.