Dr. Jaime Caballero is an interventional cardiologist based in Tampa, Florida. His work focuses on coronary interventions, structural heart disease, and endovascular therapies. He is the founder of Tampa Heart and Vascular Associates, an independent physician-led cardiology practice that emphasizes multidisciplinary care and procedural excellence. He also holds an academic appointment as Collaborative Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the University of South Florida and maintains clinical privileges at Tampa General Hospital.
Jaime Alexander Caballero was born and raised in Colombia. During his early academic years, he achieved national recognition by becoming the National Champion of the Colombian Secondary School Mathematics and Physics Olympics in Bogota in 1994. With a growing interest in human physiology and clinical medicine, he enrolled at the University of Tolima School of Medicine, where he earned his Medical Doctor degree in 2006. During his medical training, he received the Best Intern of the Year award from Hospital Fundación Santafé de Bogota.
After completing medical school, he continued developing his clinical skills through additional training in emergency and life-support care. He completed Advanced Trauma Life Support at the University de La Salle in Bogota and also trained in emergency airway management at the University of Rosario.
In 2009, Dr. Jaime moved to the United States to continue his medical education and training. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Yale School of Medicine, Saint Raphael Campus, in New Haven, Connecticut, from 2009 to 2012. During this period, he received several honors, including the Kaplan Medical Honor Society Award for academic excellence on USMLE Steps 1 and 2, the Professionalism Award in 2010, and the Reach Excellence Award in 2011.
Dr. Jaime then continued postgraduate training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. There, he completed a Cardiology Fellowship from 2012 to 2015, followed by an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship from 2015 to 2016. During this time, he also attended specialized courses in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and mechanical circulatory support devices.
He began his professional career in interventional cardiology in 2016. His first role was at Premier Heart and Vascular Center, Pepin Heart Institute, and Advent Health Tampa, where he served as an interventional, structural, and endovascular cardiologist. During that time, he performed complex coronary and structural interventions and gained experience in high-risk PCI, CTO procedures, and transcatheter therapies.
In 2019, Dr. Jaime joined HCA Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he continued working in coronary interventions and structural heart disease. Since 2021, he has served as a founding physician at Tampa Heart and Vascular Associates. The practice focuses on rapid access to care, patient-centered treatment, and collaboration among medical specialists.
He also maintains hospital privileges at Tampa General Hospital, where he participates in advanced procedural care, including mechanical circulatory support–assisted PCI, structural heart interventions, and endovascular therapies.
Alongside his clinical practice, he has remained active in academic medicine. Since 2022, he has served as a Collaborative Assistant Professor of Cardiology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa. From 2016 to 2021, he also held teaching responsibilities at Advent Health Tampa and HCA Northside Hospital.
Jaime Caballero, MD, has supported interventional cardiology education through course development and conference leadership. Beginning in 2019, he co-directed the Interventional Cardiology Skills Enhancement Course, which has held annual editions designed to improve procedural skills for practicing interventional cardiologists.
He has also served as a panelist and moderator at professional conferences, including the SCAI Cardioncology Section, and has contributed to guideline development and professional training.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI). His work in research and clinical innovation has contributed to recognition for his institution. In 2025, Tampa Heart and Vascular Associates was listed among the Top 10 institutions in the United States for scientific contributions in transcatheter cardiovascular therapeutics according to the Cardiovascular Research Foundation SET-10 rankings.
His leadership activities also include participation in guideline development and conference organization. In 2026, he will serve on the Guidelines Writing Committee for cardio-oncology patient management in the catheterization laboratory and organize the 7th European Endovascular & Interventional Cardiology Conference in Santorini, Greece.
Throughout his career, he has continued to strengthen his technical expertise through specialized training programs. These programs include courses in PCI Masters, Medtronic Veins, Micra TM Lab-based training, robotic-assisted interventions, transeptal access, and Impella mechanical circulatory support.
His commitment to service extends beyond clinical practice. During his medical training, he volunteered at Elmhurst Hospital in New York. In Colombia, he also participated in Red Cross programs that provided first-aid instruction, disaster-response training, and basic life support education.
Dr. Jaime also took part in international volunteer initiatives. He volunteered at the University of Zululand in South Africa, where he conducted workshops on HIV/AIDS awareness. In addition, he contributed to seminars on traditional medicine at the University of Nanjing in China.
Dr. Jaime Caballero is bilingual in English and Spanish and has basic proficiency in French, allowing communication in diverse clinical and academic environments. Outside of medicine, he maintains an active lifestyle through mountain biking, road cycling, kayaking, and snowboarding. Travel also provides opportunities for international collaboration and professional engagement with developments in cardiology, and he continues to balance his medical career with these personal interests.