PhD, Epidemiology, 1999, University of Minnesota

MPH, 1994, University of Minnesota

MD, 1981, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diana Fernandez, MD, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor,
Division of Epidemiology,
Community & Preventive Medicine

Contact Information:

University of Rochester
Community & Preventive Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644
Rochester, NY 14642

Office: 4-W144
Phone: (585) 275-9554
Fax: (585) 461-4532

Email: diana_fernandez@urmc.rochester.edu

Research:

The epidemiology of growth and nutrition in children, particularly malnutrition and obesity in children and adolescents, assessment of nutritional status, and societal determinants of nutritional conditions.

Dr. Fernandez is a nutritional epidemiologist interested in the two ends of the nutritional status continuum.  She has examined the determinants of wasting and stunting in children in developing countries using data from the World Health Organization.  Dr. Fernandez is currently focusing in weight gain prevention and obesity in the United States.  In particular, Dr. Fernandez is interested in the synergism between individual nutrition and physical activity behaviors and the environment.  She is currently conducting a group-randomized trial testing environmental interventions for worksite weight gain prevention and qualitative research on how the everyday life of low income families with school-age children influence the ability to make healthy nutrition and physical activity choices.

• Swati K. Basu, Isabel D. Fernandez, Susan G. Fisher, Barbara L. Asselin, Gary H. Lyman.  Length of Stay and Mortality Associated with Febrile Neutropenia among Children with Cancer.  Accepted for publication at Journal of Clinical Oncology.
• Dye T, Fernandez ID, Rains A., Fershteyn Z.  Exercise in Pregnancy and Premature Labor (A Literature Review).  Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 46(2):415-22, 2003.
• Fernandez ID, Himes JH, De Onis M.  Prevalence of Nutritional Wasting in Populations:  Building Explanatory Models using Secondary Data.  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80:282-291, 2002. 
• Fernandez ID. 2001. Can School Height Censuses Estimate the prevalence of stunting in Pre-Schoolers? A Predictive Equation. (Abstract). American Journal of Epidemiology 153(11):S169.