Oscar Fernandez Garcia, MD - Directory@UAlberta.ca

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept Infectious Disease

Email: ofernand@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-9975
Address: 124-C Clinical Sciences Building
11304 83 Ave NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G3

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Transplant infectious diseases donor derived infections antimicrobial resistance

About

I am an Infectious Diseases Physician with secondary training in Transplant Infectious Diseases. I completed my medical education, Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases residency in Mexico City. I trained as a fellow in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta. I joined the Infectious Diseases Division at the University of Alberta in 2023. I have an interest in Medical Education and am currently enrolled in a postgraduate masters program at the University of Dundee.

My clinical and research interests include care of immunocompromised hosts, transplant evaluation, infections in transplant recipients. I have focused on donor derived infections, viral infections and antimicrobial resistance.

Research

Donor derived infections in transplant recipients.

Travel associated infections in transplant recipients.

Teaching

Clinical Skills and Discovery Learning in UGME

Assistant Program Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship, University of Alberta.

Featured Publications

Hepatitis B virus reactivation in hepatitis B core antibody positive lung transplant recipients.

Oscar A. Fernandez-Garcia, Nathan Zelyas, Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, Kieran Halloran, Karen Doucette.

2023 November; 10.1016/j.jhlto.2023.100018

Absence of Hepatitis B Reactivation in Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Negative, Core Antibody Positive Liver Recipients, a Retrospective Cohort Study

American Transplant Conference. 2023 June;

Serologic follow‐up of solid organ transplant recipients who received organs from donors with reactive syphilis tests: A retrospective cohort study

Oscar A. Fernández García, Ameeta E. Singh, Jennifer Gratrix, Petra Smyczek, Karen Doucette

Clinical Transplantation. 2023 February; 10.1111/ctr.14896

Incidence of Cytomegalovirus disease and viral replication kinetics in seropositive liver transplant recipients managed under preemptive therapy in a tertiary-care center in Mexico City: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Infectious Diseases. 2022 December; 10.1186/s12879-022-07123-w

Outbreak of NDM-1-Producing Escherichia coli in a Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intensive Care Unit in a Mexican Tertiary Care Center

Oscar A. Fernández-García, María F. González-Lara, Marco Villanueva-Reza, Nereyda de-León-Cividanes, Luis F. Xancal-Salvador, Verónica Esteban-Kenel, Ayleen Cárdenas-Ochoa, Axel Cervantes-Sánchez, Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Eric Ochoa-Hein, Arturo Galindo-Fraga, Miriam Bobadilla-del-Valle, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce-de-León

Microbiology Spectrum. 2022 February; 10.1128/spectrum.02015-21

Immunology of Fungal Infections

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2021 June; 10.1016/j.idc.2021.03.006

Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19 in a Tertiary Care Center in Mexico City: A Prospective Cohort Study

Revista de investigaci�n Cl�nica. 2020 June; 10.24875/ric.20000211

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