Dr. Marcos Mestre serves as vice president and chief medical officer (CMO) for Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, a nationally recognized nonprofit pediatric specialty hospital based in Miami, Florida and the flagship campus of Nicklaus Children’s Health System, the region’s only healthcare system exclusively for children.

In his role, Dr. Mestre oversees the medical affairs and operations of the 309-bed Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and its network of pediatric outpatient centers situated in Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin and Palm Beach counties. He serves as a collaborative dyad leader, along with the hospital’s chief nursing officer (CNO), responsible for ensuring patients receive high quality, coordinated care throughout their health journey. As a board-certified practicing physician in general pediatrics, Dr. Mestre supports the well-being of Nicklaus Children’s patients in both administrative and clinical roles.

Dr. Mestre has over 15 years of clinical practice and medical staff leadership experience. Most recently, he served as the section chief and division director of Hospital Medicine at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, where he was also the senior medical director of Pediatric Services for Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists, a nonprofit physician practice subsidiary of Nicklaus Children’s Health System. Prior to Nicklaus Children’s, Dr. Mestre practiced as a hospitalist physician for a private physician practice in Miami, Florida. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a clinical assistant professor at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.

Dr. Mestre is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Biology and Psychology and an executive master’s degree in Business Administration in Health Sector Management and Policy. He earned his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals in Chapel Hill.