Dr. Carmen Terzic is from Venezuela. Dr. Terzic is the PM&R Department Chair at Mayo Clinic. She holds a joint appointment in PM&R and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases. Dr. Terzic completed her physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Mayo Clinic before joining the staff. She is active in teaching and research.

These efforts include developing techniques by which direct injection of stem cells in a murine model of cardiac infarction engrafts and repopulates the diseased heart with cardiac cells derived from the stem cells. The ultimate goal is to establish cardiovascular regenerative medicine as the new therapeutic modality for heart disease