Physician, author, essayist.
A Havana-trained family physician in Miami, the author of the NBDC series and Before the Fall, and a collector of Cuba's medical history.
MD, MBA, FAAFP. Board-certified in family medicine and in hospice and palliative medicine.
He writes for patients, for clinicians and for readers of history.
The NBDC series on type 2 diabetes, and Before the Fall, drawn from his family's archive.
Dr. Fernández earned his medical degree at the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences in Havana in 1992, graduating cum laude as the top student of his class, and completed a residency in orthopedics and traumatology at the Frank País Orthopedic Center in Havana. In the United States he trained again in family medicine at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, where he served as chief resident, and has led a community-based private practice in Miami since 2003.
He is board-certified in family medicine and in hospice and palliative medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and holds an MBA from the University of Miami.
Medical degree
cum laude, Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, Havana
Community-based private practice
Miami
Chairman
Department of Family Medicine, Kendall Regional Hospital
Chief of Medical Staff
Kendall Regional Hospital
Volunteer faculty
Family Medicine, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Faculty
Internal Medicine Residency Program, Kendall Regional Medical Center
Faculty
Family Medicine Residency Program, Westchester General Hospital
Board of Trustees
Kendall Hospital
Program Director
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Westchester Hospital
He built the Network-Based Diabetes Care framework and wrote it for patients and clinicians alike. Its research foundation includes his 2026 papers in Biomolecules and Frontiers in Endocrinology on methylglyoxal and the pathways of advanced glycation.
Eating Against the Network
The book began in his own family: the papers of Dr. Augusto Fernández Conde, who helped build the Colegio Médico Nacional, and his brother Carlos, the journalist who covered its fight from the Senate gallery.
Discover the bookMethylglyoxal as a Convergent Mediator of Diabetic Complications
Biomolecules
doi.org/10.3390/biom16081104The three pathways of advanced glycation end product synthesis: Hodge, Namiki, and Wolff
Frontiers in Endocrinology
doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2026.1856036Intermittent Sudden Dyspneic Episodes
American Family Physician
He collects rare books and documents of Cuban medicine, some carrying the bookplates and stamps of Havana's old medical libraries. The From the Shelf essays share them.
