Email

cjfernan@texaschildrenshospital.org

Positions

Professor

Pediatrics-Newborn
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Neonatology (Clinic)

Texas Children's Hospital
6621 Fannin St.
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-0206
fernande@bcm.edu
BCM Neonatology

Education

Advanced Training from Baylor College Of Medicine

01/1994 - Houston, TX United States

M.D. from University Of Bombay Grant Medical College

01/1989 - Bombay, India

Advanced Training from King Edward Memorial Hospital For Women

01/1992 - Subiaco, Australia

Advanced Training from Jaslok Hospital

01/1990 - Bombay, India

MBA from University of Tennessee

12/2018 - Knoxville, Tennessee United States

Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Professional Interests

• Hypoxic-respiratory failure in the newborn
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Neonatal Transport
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• Neonatal ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation)

Professional Statement

Dr. Caraciolo Fernandes is an academic neonatologist whose clinical experience and training spans three different countries/continents (India/Asia, Australia and the United States) and over three decades. He has been at Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine since 1994.
In the Texas Children’s Hospital Newborn Center, he serves as the Medical Director for Neonatal Transport. He was the founding Program Director for the Section of Neonatology’s Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) programs from 2015 to 2020.
As a clinician-educator, he enjoys working with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) students, residents and fellows whose questioning minds help him learn daily. He is actively involved in various aspects of Neonatology Fellows’ education, including crafting the Baylor Neo ‘Summer School’, mentoring fellows, clinical bedside teaching, ECMO rounds, etc. He enjoys participating in multi-disciplinary clinical research, quality improvement (QI) initiatives, simulation training for fellows, and discussions about challenging diagnostic and ethical clinical cases. He is a BCM QI Faculty and Coach in the Baylor Institute for Continuing Professional Development in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.
Nationally, he is a past member of Executive Committee of the Section of Transport Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and an editor of the inaugural edition of the Field Guide for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients that was introduced at the AAP National conference in Orlando, FL in November 2018. He is a senior editor of “Guidelines for the Acute Care of the Neonate,” currently in its 29th annual revision, a handbook that has served as a resource for health-caregivers at Baylor-affiliated institutions for over two decades, and, currently, for practitioners in over 50 countries. In 2013, with a vision of improving neonatal care globally, the Baylor Neonatology Section made the .pdf version of the “Baylor Neo Guidelines” available for free download for all caregivers who wished a copy.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Jasper J, Clark WD, Cabrera-Meza G, Berseth CL, Fernandes CJ "Whose child is it anyway? Resolving parent-physician conflict in the NICU setting.." Am J Perinatol. 2003 October ; 20 (7): 373-80. Pubmed PMID: 14655094
• Lazar DA, Cass DL, Olutoye OO, Kim ES, Welty SE, Fernandes CJ, Lee TC "Venovenous cannulation for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation using a bicaval dual-lumen catheter in neonates.." J. Pediatr. Surg.. 2012 February ; 47 (2): 430-4. Pubmed PMID: 22325408
• Shivanna B, Rios D, Rossano J, Fernandes CJ, Pammi M "Vasopressin and its analogues for the treatment of refractory hypotension in neonates.." Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 3 : CD009171. Pubmed PMID: 23543571
• Fernandes CJ, Speer ME "Using mnemonics and visual imagery to teach the new neonatal resuscitation program.." J Perinatol. 22 (5): 411-3. Pubmed PMID: 12082479