Javier F Aduen, MD

Javier F. Aduen, MD, is a board-certified pulmonologist and critical care physician with more than 30 years of experience caring for patients with complex pulmonary and critical illnesses. He serves as medical director of the intensive care unit, or ICU, and pulmonary and critical care medicine consultant at UF Health St. Johns.

Dr. Aduen earned his medical degree from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. He completed his internal medicine residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, before pursuing a research fellowship in critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. During his time at Johns Hopkins, he also served as an instructor of medicine. He later completed clinical fellowships in critical care medicine and pulmonary medicine through the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and Jacksonville, Florida.

Before joining UF Health Flagler Hospital, Dr. Aduen held faculty and clinical leadership positions at Mayo Clinic, where he served as a senior consultant in pulmonary and critical care medicine and as an assistant professor of medicine. Throughout his career, he has contributed extensively to clinical research, publishing numerous peer-reviewed articles in pulmonary, critical care and transplant medicine.