Strategic Leadership Team
Eng. Oscar Misla Villalba
President, CIRACET Corporation
President, CIRACET Corporation
Engineer Oscar Misla-Villalba is the President of CIRACET Corp., an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company that specializes in healthcare consulting and management. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI; a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, PR; and a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. He completed a Clinical Engineering Internship at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital and holds Post Graduate Certificates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT in Clinical Information Delivery Infrastructure, and Cardiovascular Concepts for Engineers.
Engineer Misla has 22 years of experience in the field of radiology and clinical engineering in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the United States. He has developed several professional publications and currently serves as a clinical engineering consultant to over 32 medical institutions in Puerto Rico while also serving as a speaker in various health industry congresses.
He has been a speaker for the Pan American Health Organization as part of the Advanced Clinical Engineering Workshops. He was recognized by Ernst & Young as the Entrepreneur of the Year in the Health Care Sector in 2005, and by the Southern Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce in 2006 and 2017. In 2011 he was recognized as one of the best 60 Clinical Engineers in the U.S. by the "24 x 7 magazine” and in 2017 was admitted as a Biomedical Engineering Professor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.
Engineer Misla is a licensed engineer and member of the Association of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation - "AAMI", the American College of Clinical Engineers - "ACCE", the "Biomedical Engineering Alliance Consortium – BEACON" and the Health Information Management Systems Society - "HIMSS".
Engineer Misla, was born in Ponce. He is married to the engineer Noris Torres and the father of three children who are 20, 17, and 10 years old.