Pablo Moreno Franco, M.D.

  1. Critical Care Specialist
  2. Internist

Departments

Specialty Groups

Location

  1. Jacksonville, Florida

Languages

EnglishSpanish

Dr. Moreno Franco is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Transplant Critical Care intensivist at Mayo Clinic Florida. At MCF he has served as Medical Director of the Medical ICU 2013-2016 and is currently the Medical Director for the Transplant Critical Care Service. He also serves in the Clinical Practice Committee, Hospital Practice Subcommittee, Mayo Clinic Quality Subcommittee and Medical Emergency Response Subcommittee.

Dr. Moreno Franco also participates actively in activities with Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery, Multidisciplinary Epidemiology and Translational Research in Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine (METRIC-PM), and Acute care research consortium (ACRC). Dr. Moreno Franco has research interests that include sepsis and shock care, delirium prevention, ARDS management, ICU resource utilization, liver transplantation and extracorporeal life support.

He has participated in educational activities with the Quality Academy directed towards residents, fellows, nurses, advance practice providers, pharmacists and respiratory therapists as Mayo Clinic Florida.

In his current role as Department Chair for Critical Care and the Chair for the Clinical Practice and Quality Oversight Subcommittee he coordinates quality initiatives in Mayo Clinic Florida, his practice driven changes have been focused on smart alert systems to prevent hospital associated harm, improve patient outcomes and most importantly enhance patient's experience.

  1. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  2. Intensive care
  3. Pain management
  4. Sedation
  • Quality improvements in transplant and critical care medicine
  • Coagulation and end-stage liver disease
  • Hepato-renal syndrome
  • Hepato-pulmonary syndrome
  • Pulmonary hypertension outcomes in the ICU
  • Pharmacodynamics in liver disease
  • Refractory hypoxemia and rescue strategies
  • High frequency oscillatory ventilation
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in critical care
  • Sedation, pain management and delirium in the ICU
Jax

Jacksonville, Florida

  1. 2023
    Certificate - Whitney MacMillan Physician Leadership Business AcademyW.P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
  2. 2012
    Fellow - Critical Care Internal MedicineMayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  3. 2012
    ResidentIowa Medicaid
  4. 2010
    Resident - Internal Medicine/Primary CareRush University Medical Center/John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Rush University
  5. 2003
    MDUniversity of Panama
  6. 1996
    BS - Science, Letters and PhilosophySan Francis of Assisi

Certifications

  1. 2012
    Critical Care MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine
  2. 2009
    Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine

Awards and honors

  1. 2016
    Outstanding Quality Improvement EducatorMayo Clinic
  2. 2012
    Fellow Teacher of the YearCritical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  3. 2012
    Fellow Academic Clinician of the YearCritical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  4. 2012
    Chief Fellow for Practice and Quality Improvement RecognitionCritical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  5. 2012
    Best QI ProjectCritical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  6. 2012
    Epidemiology/Outcomes Specialty AwardSociety of Critical Care Medicine
  7. 2011
    Best QI ProjectCritical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  8. 2009
    Internal Medicine Chief Medical ResidentRush University Medical Center/John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Rush University Medical Center/Cook County Hospital, Rush University
  9. 2003
    Panamanian Psychiatric Society for Graduating M.D. with Best Grades on PsychiatryPanamanian Psychiatric Society
  10. 2003
    "Leopoldo Benedety" of the Panamanian Pediatrics Society for Graduating M.D. with Best Grades on PediatricsPanamanian Psychiatric Society
  11. 2003
    Outstanding Grades on Extracurricular Diplomats on Intensive Care ManagementUniversity of Panama
  12. 2003
    "Community Service" and "Sport Activist" from Medical Students Association for Graduating M.D. enrolled in Social Work and Team SportsUniversity of Panama
  13. 2002
    Outstanding Grades on Extracurricular Diplomats on Emergency MedicineUniversity of Panama
  14. 1997
    Scholarship for Graduate StudiesNational Institute for Human Development
  15. 1996
    "Guillermo Andreve" for Academic Honors in High SchoolMinistry Of Education, Panama
  16. 1996
    "Franciscan Service" AwardSan Francis of Assisi
  17. 1995
    "Leadership Award"Panama Rotary Club

Professional memberships

  1. 2023 - present
    ChairMayo Clinic Quality Academy
  2. 2023 - present
    Member & Invited FacultyInternational Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
  3. 2021 - present
    Task Force MemberData Governance-COVID Predictive Modeling Team
  4. 2021 - present
    Medical AdvisorSociety of Critical Care Medicine
  5. 2020 - present
    Consensus Group PanelThe Leapfrog Group
  6. 2020 - present
    Member Delegate, Executive CouncilLeapfrog Hospital Advisory Committee
  7. 2016 - present
    MemberMCF Hospital Practice Subcommittee
  8. 2016 - present
    ChairClinical Practice Quality Oversight Subcommittee - Florida
  9. 2016 - present
    MemberInternational Activities Subcommittee
  10. 2016 - present
    MemberTransfusion Medicine Service, Mayo Clinic Florida Committees
  11. 2016 - present
    Active MemberMayo Clinic in Florida
  12. 2016 - present
    Active MemberMayo Clinic in Florida
  13. 2016 - present
    MemberMedical Emergency Response Subcommittee, Clinical Practice Committee - Florida, Mayo Clinic Florida Committees
  14. 2016 - present
    Member at LargeVizient--University Health-System Consortium
  15. 2014
    MemberMayo Clinic Quality Academy
  16. 2014
    MemberAmerican College of Chest Physicians
  17. 2014 - present
    Expert ContributerCHEST
  18. 2013
    MemberEuropean Association for the Study of Liver
  19. 2013
    MemberAmerican Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
  20. 2011 - 2012
    MemberMayo Fellows Association, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  21. 2011 - 2012
    Fellow RepresentativeMedical Emergency Response Subcommittee (MERS)
  22. 2011 - 2012
    Fellow RepresentativeMedical ICU Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement, Division of Critical Care Integrated Medical Practice, Department of Internal Medicine
  23. 2011 - present
    MemberAlumni Association, Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  24. 2010 - present
    MemberSociety of Critical Care Medicine
  25. 2010 - present
    MemberAmerican Medical Association
  26. 2004 - present
    Associate MemberAmerican College of Physicians
  27. 2001 - 2003
    MemberMedical Students Scientific Committee, University of Panama