Oscar Fernandez Garcia, MD

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

Contact

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

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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