Dr. Fernandez was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. His interest in medicine and caring for people was instilled in him at a young age by his father, a surgeon, and his mother, a nurse. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Florida as an undergraduate.
Dr. Fernandez earned his medical degree in Spanish from the Dominican Republic's Universidad Central del Este. Upon graduating from medical school, he went to Tampa to begin surgical research, publishing many publications with the University of South Florida while completing two years of General Surgery residency. He subsequently went on to finish his residency program in Family Medicine at Unity Hospital in Arkansas. During his residency training, he became interested in health and wellbeing, which inspired his interest in weight loss, hormone replacement therapy and peptide therapy among many other areas of interests in the health & wellness field. Dr. Fernandez is currently employed as an Emergency Physician and serves as the Medical Director for Channelside Health & Wellness.
