Dr. Pinto serves as Curana Health’s Regional Medical Director, West Division. Prior to joining Curana, he was the Chief Medical Officer for HCA Healthcare, where he achieved exceptional success in quality and patient safety (leading to the highest Leapfrog Safety Grade rating).
Dr. Pinto also served as the Facility Medical Director and Medical Department Chairman for St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center, where he directed the first TeamHealth Hospitalist Program in the Austin, Texas metro area. He also served as the post-acute care facility director for EPC skilled nursing care facilities during that time. In addition, he served as the Kindred Hospice Medical Director for Austin and Georgetown, Texas, and founded Vital Care, a network of primary care/urgent care clinics and free-standing emergency rooms.
Prior to working and standing up the TeamHealth Hospitalist presence in Austin, Dr. Pinto led a variety of hospitalist programs at a director level in West Texas (including the programs at InCompass Health and Procare Hospital Medicine).
Dr. Pinto is a graduate of Nuestra Senora de La Paz Facultad de Medicine in Bolivia. He graduated in 2009 from Lenox Hill Hospital’s Internal Medicine Residency Training Internship, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s Family and Community Residency Program in 2012, and the same program’s Hospital Medicine Fellowship in 2013. Dr. Pinto was also granted a full scholarship to complete a Physician Executive Master of Business Administration through the University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business in 2021.
Dr. Pinto is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a senior fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and a certified physician executive.
In his spare time, Dr. Pinto enjoys golf, tennis, travel, and spending time with his family.