About Yasmin Hernandez-Barco, MD
Yasmin G. Hernandez-Barco, MD is a bilingual (English, Spanish), board-certified gastroenterologist who specializes in diseases of the pancreas. She serves as the Medical Pancreatologist for the Division of Gastroenterology with a clinical focus on caring for patients with acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatitis of unknown etiology, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, pancreatic cysts, and pancreatic cancer. She is an active member of the multidisciplinary Pancreatic Cyst Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the National Consortium for the study of Pancreatic Diseases and Pancreatic Cancer.
Dr. Hernandez-Barco is a physician-scientist and studies the immunobiology of pancreatic cancer precursor lesions and the role of the immune system in malignant progression of pancreatic cancer. She is actively involved in research which includes developing technologies for the early detection of pancreatic cancer and pancreatic cysts and developing clinical diagnostic tools in the management of various subtypes of pancreatitis.
Prior to starting clinical practice in 2012, Dr. Hernandez-Barco received her medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honors Societies and awarded the Glasgow-Rubin Citation for academic achievement. She completed her residency and chief residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hernandez-Barco completed her Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship in the Division of Gastroenterology at MGH. She completed an additional year of advanced fellowship training in Medical Pancreatology at MGH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She is actively involved in gastroenterology and pancreatic professional societies, and serves on several national committees including the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) Food and Drug Administration Related Matters Committee, ACG Technology and Innovation Committee, and ACG Young Physician Scholar Program Steering Committee.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Pancreas cysts
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatic disease
- Pancreatitis (acute and chronic)
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Spanish
Locations
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2000
Medical Education
- MD, Stony Brook Medicine
- Residency, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Dr. Hernandez-Barco has laboratory and clinical research focused on the pathogenesis and immunobiology of pancreatic cancer and cystic lesions of the pancreas, acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis, and complications of chronic pancreatitis such as exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
Dr. Hernandez-Barco is caring and thoughtful. She takes her time to listen to my problems and brainstorm with me to come up with a game plan. I never leave my appointment without my questions not being answered. She is extremely thorough and takes her time when I'm being seen. I feel seen by Dr.Hernandez-Barco.
Dr. Hernandez was excellent. I think she listens very well and has good recommendations and I trust her implicitly.
She was very informative. We really like her.
Well informed, was concerned in getting to the bottom of the problem, was willing to discuss as long as I wanted
Extremely knowledgeable and offered many possibilities and solutions. Caring, interested and well connected.
Dr. Was very helpful explaining everything that I needed to know about my condition.
She was very helpful, very knowledgeable, willing to listen. I felt like I was valued and I learned new things about what was going on with myself.
Dr. Hernandez-Barco is a wonderful doctor. She is always caring and thoughtful and clear and gives a really thorough visit.
Dr. has years of experience with pancreas and other g astrology matters. She has seen various degrees of side effects from pancrease recovery.
She was thoroughly prepared. She read all my medical chart and she was informative. After the meeting, she followed up immediately with a phone call and text messaging back.