Dr Kurlene Cenac

 Dr Kurlene Cenac completed her undergraduate medical degree at the Advanced Institute of Medical Sciences “Dr. Serafin Ruiz de Zarate Ruiz” in Santa Clara, Cuba. She returned to Saint Lucia in 2004 and after completing a year of Internship, worked with the Ministry of Health at Victoria Hospital for 5 years in the department of Internal Medicine. During that period, she was an active member of the SLMDA serving as Secretary and Vice President and also served on the Saint Lucia Medical and Dental Council.

Dr. Cenac subsequently pursued postgraduate studies in Internal Medicine at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica obtaining the DM in Internal Medicine in 2014. Upon completion, she worked with the British Virgin Islands Health Services Authority as an Internist in Tortola, BVI after which she commenced a 2-year clinical fellowship in Adult Cardiology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada practicing at the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She completed a year of further subspecialty training in “Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology – Device Implantation” at the same institution.

Dr. Cenac is a member of the Caribbean Cardiac Society, the Association of Consultant Physicians of Jamaica, the American College of Physicians, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the Association of Black Cardiologists, the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology.

She returned to Saint Lucia 6 years ago having gained a wealth of knowledge and expertise.

She is passionate about teaching younger physicians and empowering them to reach their fullest potential. She believes in offering the very best available care to every patient and strives to ensure that her entire healthcare team does the same. In the words of one of her trainees, she has zero tolerance for nonsense.

She works as a Consultant Internist and Cardiologist at OKEU Hospital, Victoria Hospital as needed and Tapion Hospitals as well as in her private practice located at Tapion Hospital – KCCardioMed INC, providing services to the people of Saint Lucia with a view to continue the ongoing mission to improve the quality of healthcare available to all of our people. Most recently, she was part of a historical moment for Saint Lucia, performing one of the first two coronary angiograms on island at Tapion Hospital along with Dr Romel Daniel who performed the other, under the proctorship of Dr. Julien Fabre of the CHU of Martinique.

When not at work, Dr. Cenac enjoys time with family and loved ones, singing, listening to music, reading a good book, watching a sunset (on the rare occasions that she leaves hospital before the sun goes down) and dancing latin music. She also enjoys empowering patients and persons in general with the knowledge and understanding to enable them to prevent,, or when already present, better manage chronic diseases and avoid their complications. As such she participates in public outreach programmes on radio, TV and in churches.