ANGEL W. HERNANDEZ, MD
WORK ADDRESS: OFFICE: Cook Children’s Physician Network Neuroscience Center 901 Seventh Ave., Suite 120 Fort Worth, TX 76104 (682) 885-2500 (682) 885-2510 (Fax) MEDICAL CENTER: Cook Children's Medical Center 801 Seventh Avenue Fort Worth, TX 76104 GRANTS AND RESEARCH: Cook Children's Medical Center Office of Grants and Research 1510 Cooper Street Fort Worth, TX 76104
Website: www.cookchildrens.org/neurosciences EDUCATION: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Division of Child Neurology Child Neurology Fellowship Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Michigan State University Department of Pediatrics Pediatric Resident Kalamazoo, Michigan M.D., Ponce School of Medicine Ponce, Puerto Rico B.S., Purdue University Major: Biology West Lafayette, Indiana POSITIONS/APPOINTMENTS: Medical Director, Cook Children's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. Vice-Chief of Service, Neurology. Medical Director, Cook Children's Clinical Neurophysiology Center. Medical Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. Director, Epilepsy Clinical Trials, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. Director, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Clinics Chief, Medical Subspecialties Division, Cook Children’s Medical Center. 1
Vice-Chairman, Cook Children’s Home Health Board of Trustees. Course Director, Epilepsy Program Weekly Surgery Case Conference. Scientific Member, Cook Children’s Health Care System Institutional Review Board. Member, Cook Children’s Health Care System Research Development Council. Senior Consultant, Cook Children’s Physician Network. Chair, Pediatric Epilepsy Symposium Committee-Comprehensive Epilepsy Program HONORS AND AWARDS: Fort Worth - Fort Worth Magazine Top Doctors. Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Fourth Edition - Biographical Record Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh - Ortho-McNeil Top Scholar Epilepsy Fellow. - Recipient of the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Scholarship for Residents - Recipient of the Department of Neurology Most Valuable Resident Award Michigan State University - Member of the Residency Review Committee - Member of the Recruitment Committee Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce PR - Awarded “Ciba- Geigy Netter Collection Award” for outstanding community service. ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, University of North Texas Health Sciences ABSTRACTS: Hernandez AW, Gushurst C. Corticosteroid-related Pseudotumor Cerebri: A pediatric case report. Presented at the Kalamazoo Research Meeting 1997. Hernandez, AW, Barmada, MA, Pollock, A. “Acute Progressive Encephalomyelitis: Relation with Toxic Exposure. A Review of Three Cases.” Ann Neurol 2000 48(3):547; Poster presentation (P108) at the Child Neurology Society Meeting October 2000 Hernandez AW, Northam R, Mangat S, Nedelman J, Sturm YE. “Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Ascending Doses of Oxcarbazepine in Pediatric Patients with InadequatelyControlled Partial Seizures-An Open-Label, Age-Stratified, Pilot Study.” Neurology 2003;60(5)suppl 1:A145-A146. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Neurology 55th Annual Meeting 2003, Poster #P02.124.
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Hernandez, AW, Malik, SI. “Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Care Outside the Academic Environment” Presented at the Cook Children’s Medical Center Pediatric Grand Rounds 3/2004. Malik, SI, Hernandez, AW. “Intermittent Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Patients with Refractory and Pharmaco-resistant Status Epilepticus”. Presented at the Cook Children’s Medical Center Pediatric Grand Rounds 3/2004. Presented at the American Epilepsy Society Meeting 12/2004 New Orleans, LO. Epilepsia 2004 45(7):155-156. Hernandez AW, Malik SI, Donahue D. Post-Operative Reactivation of Herpes Simplex Virus after Epilepsy Surgery. A Pediatric Case Review with Good Outcome. Epilepsia 2006. In Print. Hernandez AW, Donahue D, Malik SI, Black CT. Safety and Tolerability of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Activation at the Time of Surgery in Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Review. Epilepsia 2006. In Print. Donahue D, Sanchez R, Hernandez AW, Malik SI, Black CT, Honeycutt J. Preservation of subcutaneous pocket for VNS pulse generator during MEG: technical note. Presented at the Cook Children’s Medical Center Pediatric Grand Rounds 10/2006. PUBLICATIONS: Angel W. Hernandez, MD and Michael J. Painter, MD. "Neurological Disorders of the Mouth, Pharynx and Esophagus" in Pediatric Otolaryngology. Bluestone C and Stool S (Eds) W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 9/2002. Hernandez AW. “Alternative Treatments for Children with Medically Refractory Epilepsy”. Cook Children's Consult 2003; Spring: 8-9. Hernandez AW. “The Role of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in the Evaluation of Children and Adolescents with Seizures and Spells”. Cook Children’s Consult 2005; Winter:2-4. Marks WA, Hernandez A, Gabriel M. Epilepsy: Habilitation and Rehabilitation. Semin Pediatr Neurol 2003; 10(2):151-8. Northam RS, Hernandez AW, Litzinger MJ, Minecan DN, Glauser TA, Mangat S, Zheng C, Souppart C and Sturm Y. Oxcarbazepine in infants and young children with partial seizures. Pediatric Neurology 2005; 33 (5): 337-344. Donahue D, Sanchez R, Hernandez AW, Malik S, Black CT, Honeycutt J. Preservation of a subcutaneous pocket for vagus nerve stimulation pulse generator during Magnetoencephalography. J Neurosurg 2007;107 (suppl 6): 519-20. LANGUAGES: Spanish (Fluent written and spoken) English (Fluent written and spoken) 3
BOARD CERTIFICATION AND LICENSE: - Board certified in neurology with special qualifications in child neurology. - Board certified in neurology with added qualifications in clinical neurophysiology. - Unrestricted Texas medical license- Active - Unrestricted Oklahoma medical license- Active - Unrestricted Pennsylvania medical license- not active PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP: American Epilepsy Society - Member, Practice Committee (12/2007-Present) American Academy of Neurology Child Neurology Society American Clinical Neurophysiology Society National Association of Epilepsy Centers Epilepsy Foundation of Greater North Texas - Member, Professional Advisory Board Texas Neurological Society Texas Medical Association
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