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Jose Luis Aguirre, MD
Physician — Geriatrics & Internal Medicine | Founder, Medikah Health, Medikah Health / University Medical Center of El Paso
Aguirre is a physician founder who sees health not as an industry but as an architecture of care. Since January 2024, he has been building Medikah Health in association with BeNeXT Global — advising on the design of a cross-border healthcare platform integrating digital health infrastructure, policy alignment, and international partnerships across the Americas. His focus areas include health systems strategy, responsible AI governance in regulated health systems, cross-border partnerships, and digital health infrastructure for underserved markets. His dual formation — USC psychology, UACJ medicine, Beaumont residency, Baylor fellowship — gives him rare fluency across both sides of the border's medical systems.
Narrative
Dr. Jose Luis Aguirre is a physician who practices on both sides of the border — and builds systems designed to erase the line between them. Board-certified in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, he practices at University Medical Center of El Paso while founding Medikah Health, a cross-border healthcare platform associated with BeNeXT Global. His trajectory is the border itself made biographical: a B.A. in Psychology from USC, a medical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, private practice in Ciudad Juárez, residency at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, a Geriatric Medicine fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, and now — the construction of digital health infrastructure designed to connect the Americas.
Aguirre practices medicine at the border and builds technology to transcend it. His conviction is that healthcare innovation must be grounded in clinical reality — that the best health platforms are designed by physicians who treat patients, not by engineers who study markets. Medikah Health reflects this: a cross-border platform built by a doctor who has practiced on both sides of the Rio Grande, designed to integrate AI-enabled care delivery with responsible data governance and public-private collaboration to expand access in underserved markets.
Anima Key
Healthcare innovation must be grounded in clinical reality — on both sides of the border.
Why They Belong
- Founder of Medikah Health — the ecosystem's cross-border healthcare platform associated with BeNeXT Global
- Practiced medicine in both Ciudad Juárez and El Paso — rare dual-system clinical experience
- Dual formation: USC psychology, UACJ medical degree, Army medical center residency, Baylor fellowship
- Advises on responsible AI governance in regulated health systems across the Americas
- Building digital health infrastructure designed to connect underserved markets hemisphemically
Legacy Vector
Dr. Aguirre is building a health platform born from clinical practice on both sides of the border — not from venture capital or Silicon Valley. Medikah Health represents the conviction that the Americas deserve healthcare architecture designed by a physician who has treated patients in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, who understands both systems from the inside.
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