Felix Fernandez, MD, MSc

Decatur, GA

Thoracic Surgeon, Atlanta VA Medical Center and Associate Professor of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Represented: Clinicians

Felix Fernandez, MD, MSc, specializes in thoracic oncology and lung transplantation, and is affiliated with both the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and the Emory Transplant Center. In 2010, Fernandez established a minimally invasive thoracic surgery program at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and was an essential contributor to Emory reaching its 300th lung transplant milestone in September 2010. Fernandez’s research interests include outcomes in thoracic oncology and quality improvement. In 2014, the Graham Foundation of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) named Fernandez a Cardiothoracic Surgical Investigator for 2014-2015. That same year, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded Fernandez an RO1 grant for a study that seeks to identify which patients are at risk for reduced long-term survival following lung cancer surgery and the most advantageous surgical strategies for these patients. In 2015, Fernandez began co-directing an effort with Alessandro Brunelli from St. James’s University Hospital in Leeds, England, to link lung cancer surgery outcomes data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database and the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) Database. Fernandez earned his MD from Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Fernandez previously served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options and the Advisory Panel on Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science from August 2016 to August 2019.