[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 114 (Friday, June 30, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E629-E630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HONORING DR. ANTHONY NUNEZ AS A DISTINGUISHED LEADER IN CENTRAL FLORIDA 
                      FOR CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH

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                            HON. DARREN SOTO

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 30, 2023

  Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Anthony Nunez is a practicing 
cardiothoracic surgeon in Osceola County, Florida. He is a staff 
surgeon at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Lake Nona with 
additional privileges at HCA Florida Poinciana Medical Center. He 
became board

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certified in thoracic surgery after graduating from the University of 
Alabama at Birmingham and received advanced training in heart and lung 
transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
  He started his practice in Florida at Halifax Medical Center and 
subsequently moved to the Osceola Regional Medical Center. He is 
serving the counties of Osceola and Polk and was instrumental in the 
care of many critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. His 
diverse research interests started at the National Institutes of 
Health, and he now serves on the Industrial Advisory Board at Embry 
Riddle University, Daytona Beach.
  He was the co-founder of Endotronix along with Harry Rowland, Ph.D. 
Endotronix is a medical device company currently conducting human 
trials of a wireless implantable pressure sensor designed to monitor 
pulmonary artery pressure in patients with congestive heart failure. 
The conception of this device started at the NASA Glenn Research Center 
in Ohio. Through a Space Act agreement and private equity funding, 
Endotronix developed the device and monitoring system, and performed 
all the early animal and human trials in the United States and Europe. 
They recently completed enrollment in the PROACTIVE-HF pivotal U.S. 
human trial, anticipating FDA data submission in 2024.
  Dr. Nunez is married with three children. His eldest daughter is 
preparing to start at Florida State University. Dr. Nunez continues to 
serve the communities of Lake Nona, Kissimmee, and Poinciana through a 
diverse portfolio of thoracic surgery cases with an ongoing focus on 
robotic thoracic surgery for mediastinal and pulmonary cancer, 
performing his surgical cases on the DaVinci robotic surgical platform.

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