Matas-Sosa, Ellen NP

Dayuri Gallardo, APRN, is a certified nurse practitioner at Baptist Health and is fluent in English and Spanish. She began her medical career in 2004 as a family medicine physician in Venezuela. Joining Baptist Health in 2011, Dayuri served as a registered nurse in the ICU/PCU and a nurse practitioner at Homestead Hospital. Dayuri now provides annual wellness exams, acute care visits, medication management and chronic disease management to Baptist Health primary care patients.After earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Miami Dade College, she completed a family nurse practitioner master’s program at the University of Turabo, South Florida campus. With experience in both acute care and family practice settings, Dayuri has cared for patients with a variety of chronic and acute life-threatening medical conditions. She is committed to providing compassionate and reliable care to help her patients achieve the best outcomes possible. When she is not taking care of patients, Dayuri likes to go to the beach and the movies with her family.

Roman Luis Malagon, R.N., BSN, FNP-C, FMD, is a certified family nurse practitioner at Baptist Health Primary Care. He specializes in family medicine with an emphasis in care for adults. He is fluent in English and Spanish. Prior to joining Baptist Health Primary Care in 2019, Roman was on staff at Baptist Health Home Care in Miami as a registered nurse. Roman is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. He is interested in growing as a nurse practitioner and delivering high quality care. While providing care, Roman is always focused on patients and satisfaction. He strives to establish strong relationships with his patients so they can work together to improve health and prevent disease. His goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of each of his patients by keeping them healthy as they age. In his free time, Roman enjoys going on walks and listening to music.

Elliott Elias, M.D. M.P.H, is an inpatient cardiologist who specializes in pre-procedural, intra-procedural, and post-procedural imaging for trans-catheter structural intervention. Dr. Elias has special training and expertise within valvular heart disease using multi-modality imaging (Cardiac CT, and echocardiography) to minimize risk and provide high-quality outcomes. He is an integral part of the Heart Valve Team that collaborates for the planned treatment of both surgical and trans-catheter intervention of complex valvular heart disease. He is fellowship trained in Interventional Echocardiography — a new subspecialty within echocardiography that focuses on 3-D/4-D imaging for the planning and guidance of trans-catheter structural heart procedures such as TAVR, TMVR, MitraClip, left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder devices, and transcatheter paravalvular leaks. Dr. Elias has published numerous articles, abstracts and textbook chapters in peer-reviewed scientific publications.