Oscar Fernandez Garcia, MD
Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept Infectious Disease
- ofernand@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-9975
- Address
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124-C Clinical Sciences Building
11304 83 Ave NWEdmonton ABT6G 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
Oscar A. Fernandez-Garcia, Nathan Zelyas, Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, Kieran Halloran, Karen Doucette.
2023 November; 10.1016/j.jhlto.2023.100018
American Transplant Conference. 2023 June;
Oscar A. Fernández García, Ameeta E. Singh, Jennifer Gratrix, Petra Smyczek, Karen Doucette
Clinical Transplantation. 2023 February; 10.1111/ctr.14896
BMC Infectious Diseases. 2022 December; 10.1186/s12879-022-07123-w
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
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2021 June; 10.1016/j.idc.2021.03.006
Revista de investigaci�n Cl�nica. 2020 June; 10.24875/ric.20000211
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