Carlos C. Jimenez, M.D.

                   Governor Joe Manchin III appointed Dr. Jimenez to the Board of Medicine in October, 2007.  He serves on the Physician Assistant Committee.

                    Born in Manila, Dr. Jimenez graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, with post-graduate training at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Quezon City.  In 1966, he came to the United States to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, where he completed three years of residency in internal medicine, followed by a year studying endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh McGee Women’s Hospital.  Dr. Jimenez was a teaching and research Fellow in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1970.  He is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio and West Virginia and has been a Diplomat of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians since 1983.

                    Dr. Jimenez has been an Instructor for the Department of Medicine at West Virginia University for more than twenty-five years and has been a member of the Academic Staff at Ohio Valley Medical Center for nearly twenty-five years.  He has been the Director of Continuing Medical Education since 2002 and won the Best Teacher’s Award in 1997.  He is affiliated not only with Ohio Valley Medical Center, but also with Wheeling Hospital and Reynolds Memorial Hospital, where he has held many leadership positions.

                    He is a member of numerous county, state and national associations and societies and is currently the Vice President of the West Virginia State Medical Association.  He has spoken on a wide variety of medical topics locally, statewide, nationally, and most recently in Mexico City.  Dr. Jimenez has had a private practice in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism in Glen Dale, West Virginia, for thirty-seven years, where he manages to find time to be active in civic and church  organizations.

                    Dr. Jimenez and his lovely wife of forty-three years, Conchita de Castro Jimenez, are proud parents of two children, Christopher and Cynthia.  They have three sweet granddaughters, Carissa, Camilla, and Claudia.  They were graced with a new grandson, Milo Xavier, early this year.