Dr. Cruz attended Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, and completed residency at Methodist Dallas Medical Center and cardiology fellowship at Texas Tech University El Paso, as well as advanced heart failure training at UC San Diego. He also completed a Masters of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
He joins the faculty as a general cardiologist and Assistant Professor and specialist in advanced heart failure with additional focus on myocarditis, exercise risk stratification, and advanced HF therapies disparities.