Hammond-Henry Hospital Medical Group Kewanee Clinic

1258 W. South Street, Kewanee, IL 61443

309.853.3677

Family Medicine

2024

Family Medicine, Surgery

Received MD from Universidad Salvadorena Alberto Masferrer (USAM) School of Medicine, San Salvador, El Salvador

Residency completed at Southern Illinois University at Springfield, IL

American Academy of Family Physicians

Family Medicine Board Certified by ABFM

Fluent in English and Spanish, Dr. Carlos Avila received his Medical Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Universidad Salvadorena Alberto Masferrer (USAM), School of Medicine, San Salvador, El Salvador in 2005. He completed his Family Medicine Residency Program at Southern Illinois University at Springfield, IL in 2017. From 2017 to the present, Dr. Avila has served as a Family Medicine Specialist and Site Lead Physician at Unity Point Health Care (now Carle Health) and also at East Peoria First Care (outpatient clinic and urgent care). During this time, he also served Barring Trace Clinic, Peoria Heights, Pekin Clinic, and Family Medicine Pear Tree, and offered telemedicine services provided under the American Well platform for Unity Point Health System. From June 2004 to 2017, Dr. Avila served as First Surgical Assistant for General Surgery and Laparoscopic Surgery, San Salvador, El Salvador, before moving to Illinois. In 2007, he served as a Medical Assistant to Dr. Anad Salem at the Family Medicine Clinic, Carbondale, IL, followed by serving as First Surgical Assistant for general surgery, plastic surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, and orthopedic surgery at Passavant Area Hospital, Jacksonville, IL. In 2011, he served as Research and Education Coordinator at Saint Croix Hospice, Rochester, MN, and was also Chair of the Ethics Committee for St. Croix Hospice, before returning to Passavant Area Hospital through June of 2014. Between this time and July 2017, Dr. Avila completed his three-year Family Medicine Residency Program at Southern Illinois University at Springfield, and moonlighted his second and third year of residency at Memorial Express. He volunteers as a Physician Preceptor for medical students from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, and is a Board Member of HOPE (Helping Other People Excel) as a medical team member.

English, Spanish