The Gordon Clinic is an independent group practice with primary and some specialty features named after a Cuban physician who donated his fortune and life to the progress of medicine in Cuba. He was Dr. Antonio M. de Gordon Acosta (1847-1917). The late Dr. Gordon was closely related to 2 of the medical students who in 1871 were part of the group which ended up being killed at a Spanish firing squad for perhaps many reasons but innocent of the charges made. The lynching served to define the Cuban nationality and is still remembered every 27^th of November to rededicate ourselves to the ideals of respect for human rights and nonviolence.

Our namesake, Dr Antonio de Gordon y Acosta served as president of the Havana Academy of Sciences during the 1890’s. He donated several laboratories to the University Of Havana School Of Medicine. Presently there is a hall at the University Hospital in Havana which bears the name of the late Gordon. He is also remembered as the founder of “Dispensaries for Indigent Children” in 1896. In these facilities, children displaced by the draconian measures of the Spanish administration during the 1896-98 period of the Cuban war of independence were fed, cared fro and protected.

The current modest facilities located in Northwest Miami-Dade County were founded in 1978. The services had to be expanded in 1980 with the arrival of more than 125,000 Cubans via the Mariel Boatlift. The clinic was located near one of the main U.S. immigration processing stations at the old blimp hangar in Opa-locka. Dr Antonio M. Gordon, Jr. served in the medical processing of the newly arrived immigrants. His father, Dr. Antonio Gordon, Sr briefly helped in the clinic. Most of the clinic staff volunteered to serve the mass of immigrants from May to August of 1980. Dr. A Gordon Jr collected health and nutritional data on the immigrants and published a paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition describing the clinical status of a sample of Cubans.

The Gordon Clinic participates in medical education at the undergraduate level by providing exposure to medial students through the Nova-Southeastern University and Barry University. Students have given the clinic and its staff very positive evaluations. Occasionally, premeds from local schools come into the office to "shadow" our doctors and get a feeling for what they do.

Original clinical investigations have continued to be a part of the service that we provide. We have found that it is not only the service at a particular point in time that is needed. The community also needs their health care practitioners to want to know and assist in the health challenges of the future. Hence, we have continued to foster our clinical observations of the natural history of diseases and the evolution and management of new diseases and their diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.

click to enlarge Clinic Staff 1989 (left to right) Dr. A. Gordon, Jr., Maribel Gordon, Marinelys Rodriguez-Escarra, Yamila Vazquez, Dr Reinaldo Payá.	click to enlarge Clinic Staff 1987  (left to right) Dr. Alberto García-Romeu, Irene Ibarra, Raiza Miranda, Antonia M. Valdés-Clinic Manager, Margarita Perea,  Dr. A. Gordon, Jr.	click to enlarge Clinic Staff 1994-5  (left to right) Back Rowl: Dr. Richard Torres, Dr. Carlos A. Vargas, Dr. Melissa Young,  Leonor Fernandez, Lourdes Medina Front Row: Maribel Gordon, Dr. A. Gordon, Jr., Douglas Dueñas, Elina León- Clinic Manager-, Dr. Isidro Pujol, Marisabel Calvo, Emelia Riverón.
click to enlarge Clínica Gordon De izquierda a derecha, fila atrás: Britney Shorter, Dr. Ivan Shorter, Edino Pérez, Juan Suárez, Humberto Pérez, Dra. Ingrid Solomón. Fila Intermedia: Michael Davis, Andy Rodríguez-Gordon, Chris González, Angel Morales. De rodillas: Choly Naranjo, Dr. Antonio Gordon	click to enlarge (standing) Douglas Dueñas, Dr. A. Gordon, Jr., Dr. Hugo Fernandez. (sitting) Emelia RIveron, Elina Leon – Clinic Manager- Maribel Gordon, Rosemary Larrieuix, Lourdes Medina.	click to enlarge   Dr. Gordon & cuban nurse

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