About Maria Aguilar, MD

Dr. Maria Aguilar was born in Medellin, Colombia, and completed medical school at Universidad CES in Medellin. As an exchange student, she attended University of Texas at San Antonio in 1990 with a focus on research in neurosciences. Dr. Aguilar went back to Columbia for her neurology residency, but returned to Texas to finish at University of Texas San Antonio. This is where she also completed her internship, neurology residency and vascular neurology fellowship. She comes to Penrose-St. Francis from Mayo Clinic’s Campus in Arizona, where she worked from July 2006 until July 2018.

Dr. Aguilar and her husband moved to Colorado Springs for better weather and wanting to be close to the mountains.