3515 E. Fletcher Avenue, USF Department of Psychiatry
Tampa, FL 33613
ffernand@health.usf.edu

Education

- Tufts University, M.D. 1979
- Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital General Psychiatry Residency 1983
- Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship 1984

Interests

1. Psychosomatic Medicine
2. Clinical Neurosciences
3. Neuro-AIDS

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1. Giunta B, Ehrhart J, Townsend K, Sun N, Vendrame M, Shytle D, Tan J, and Fernandez F: Galantamine and nicotine have a synergistic effect on inhibition of microglial activation induced by HIV-1 gp120. Brain Research Bulletin, 64: 165-170, 2004
2. Townsend KP, Shytle D, Bai Y, San N, Zeng J, Freeman M, Mori Takashi, Fernandez F, Morgan D, Sanberg P, and Tan J: Lovastatin modulation of microglial activation via suppression of CD40, J Neuroscience Research, 78: 167-176, 2004
3. Goforth HW, Lupash DP, Brown ME, Tan J, Fernandez F: Role of Alcohol and Substance Abuse in the Immunomodulation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease: A Review, Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 3:174-182, 2004
4. Fernandez F: Ten Myths About HIV Infection and AIDS. Focus, III (No. 2): 184-193, 2005
5. McBride A, Fernandez F: Cognitive Disorders. In, Fernandez F and Ruiz P (Eds.), Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore; Chapter 12, pp. 111-118, 2006
6. Santana CA, Fernandez F: Sleep Disorders. In, Fernandez F and Ruiz P (Eds.), Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, Baltimore; Chapter 15, pp. 137-146, 2006
7. Ruiz P, Fernandez F: Hispanics and AIDS. In, Fernandez F and Ruiz P (Eds.), Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, Baltimore; Chapter 20, pp. 215-225, 2006
8. Giunta B, Obregon D, Hou H, Zeng J, Nikolic V, Ehrhart J, Shytle D, Fernandez F and Tan J. EGCG mitigates neurotoxicity mediated by HIV-1 proteins gp120 and Tat in the presence of IFN-g: role of JAK/STAT1 signaling and implications for HIV-associated dementia (2006). Brain Research 1123: 216-225.
9. Fernandez F, Tan J: Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection of the Central Nervous System. In, Yudofsky S.C. & Hales R. (Eds) The American Psychiatric Textbook of Neuro­psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Chapter 20, pp.765-798, 2007.