Francisco X. Flores, MD

I received my medical degree from the University Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil in Ecuador. I completed my residency in pediatrics at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. I then completed my fellowship in pediatric nephrology at Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1998, I started the Pediatric Nephrology Program at Tampa Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida. In 2002, I joined the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and served as an attending physician in Pediatric Nephrology at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Over the last 14 years at All Children’s Hospital, I focused my clinical interest and work on the use of continuous renal replacement therapy in pediatric acute kidney injury, and in 2008, I became the director of the CRRT Program at this institution. In 2011, I developed the Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System (MARS) Program at All Children’s Hospital, which at that time became the second pediatric program in the US and the only program in Florida that provided supportive therapy to children with drug overdose, poisoning, and acute liver failure.

In June of 2016, I joined the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension as the medical director of clinical services and the MARS Program at Cincinnati Children’s.

My areas of clinical interest include acute kidney injury, the use of continuous renal replacement therapy, and the use of MARS in pediatric patients.