Dr. Esteban Franco Garcia is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Universidad El Bosque in Bogotá, Colombia, and then went on to complete his residency in Internal Medicine at New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Center where he stayed on for an additional year as chief resident. He then completed the Geriatric Medicine fellowship at Mass General.

After his fellowship, Dr. Franco Garcia joined the Mass General faculty and has several years of experience with ortho-geriatric co-management and currently directs the Geriatric Inpatient Fracture Service (GIFTS). He is also interested in medical education and has served as program director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship program since 2018.

“Being a Geriatrician and caring for older adults is challenging but very rewarding. We have the privilege of helping people age in place as well as helping them through difficult times of their lives like an acute hospitalization. I thoroughly enjoy teaching and forming the next generation of geriatricians to understand the implications that the aging process has and how we can provide better, patient-centered care for our patients.”