Hoylan T. Fernandez MD, MPH
Hoylan T. Fernandez
MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus
Oncology; Organ Transplant; Renal Transplantation; Robotic Surgery; Surgery - Transplant; Transplantation
Professional Summary:
Hoylan Fernandez, MD, MPH, was fellowship trained in abdominal transplant surgery, live donor liver transplantation, auto islet cell transplant and hepatobiliary surgery at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. She began her medical career at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. She completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago in the department of General Surgery where she was awarded an NIH Minority Student Research Grant, the AOA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship, and a Fentress Fellowship Award. She then went on to complete her general surgery internship and residency at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She ihas previously served as member of various committees for ASTS, UNOS and AASLD. Over Dr. Fernandez's career, she has published several peer-reviewed articles and given many oral and poster presentations on various topics such as live donor transplantation, transplant finances, and transplant outcomes. She has an interest in racial/ethnic health disparities, liver/bile duct cancers, pancreatic cancer, and living donors.
Education and Training:
- Fellowship, Hepatobiliary, living donor liver, pancreatic autoislet, Baylor University Medical Center (2016)
- Fellowship, Abdominal Transplant, Baylor University Medical Center (2015)
- Residency, General Surgery, St. Joseph's Hospital (2013)
- MD, University of Chicago (2008)
- MPH, Public Health, Boston University (2003)
- BA, Biological Sciences, History, Cornell University (2002)
Employment:
- Chief of Surgery, Surgery, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2023–2024)
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences, Surgery, TCU UNTHSC (2020–2024)
- Medical Surgical Quality Committee, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2019–2024)
- Surgical Quality Committee, Surgery, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2019–2024)
- Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Surgery, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2016–2024)
- Medical Executive Committee, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2016–2024)
- Chair of Robotic Surgery, Surgery, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2021–2023)
- Vice Chief of Surgery, Surgery, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2020–2023)
- ACGME Committee, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2018–2022)
- Credentials Committee, Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center (2016–2022)
- Research Fellowship, University of Chicago (2006–2008)
Awards and Honors:
- Presidential Poster Award (2021)
- Poster of Distinction (2016)
- Fentress Fellowship Award (2008)
- AOA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship (2007)
- NIH Minority Student Research Grant (2007)
Journal Articles:
- Wall AE, Da Graca B, Asrani SK, Ruiz R, Fernandez H, Gupta A, Martinez E, Bayer J, McKenna G, He Lee S, Trotter JF, Testa G. (2024) A cost comparison of liver acquisition fees for donation after circulatory death versus donation after brain death donors. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society (Aug), 30(8): 775-784.
- Wall A, Arunachalam P, Martinez E, Ruiz R, Fernandez H, Bayer J, Gupta A, McKenna GJ, Lee SH, Adams B, Butler D, Noesges S, Duncan M, Rayle M, Monday K, Schwartz G, Testa G. (2024) Stepwise development and expansion of an abdominal normothermic regional perfusion program for donation after circulatory determination of death organ procurement. Clinical transplantation (Apr), 38(4): e15297.
- Yango A, Bista B, Fischbach B, Machado S, Clark A, Khoja S, Dion N, Saracino G, Taylor J, Fernandez H, Duraiswamy SS, Testa G. (2023) Elevated tacrolimus levels among COVID-19 kidney transplant recipients are associated with worse disease severity and clinical outcomes. Clinical nephrology (Nov), 100(5): 216-223.
- Wall AE, McKenna GJ, Onaca N, Ruiz R, Bayer J, Fernandez H, Martinez E, Gupta A, Askar M, Spak CW, Testa G. (2022) Utilization of a SARS-CoV-2-positive donor for liver transplantation. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) (Jan), 35(1): 62-63. doi:10.1080/08998280.2021.1985888
- Bottiglieri T, Wang X, Arning E, Fernandez H, Wall A, McKenna G, Ruiz R, Onaca N, Trotter J, Lawrence M, Naziruddin B, Asrani SK, Testa G. (2022) Longitudinal profiling of plasma and urine metabolites during liver regeneration in living liver donors. Clinical transplantation (Jan), 36(1): e14490.
- Wall AE, da Graca B, Asrani SK, Ruiz R, Fernandez H, Gupta A, Martinez E, Bayer J, McKenna GJ, Goldstein R, Onaca N, Trotter JF, Testa G. (2021) Cost Analysis of Liver Acquisition Fees Before and After Acuity Circle Policy Implementation. JAMA surgery (Nov), 156(11): 1051-1057. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2021.4406
- Yango A, Fischbach B, Bista B, Ruiz R, Fernandez H, Testa G. (2021) Serum sickness induced by alemtuzumab in a kidney-pancreas transplant recipient. Clinical nephrology (Jul), 96(1): 47-50.
- Onaca N, Martinez E, Bayer J, Wall A, Fernandez H, Ruiz R, Ma TW, Gupta A, McKenna G, Testa G. (2021) Selective screening imaging of the aortoiliac arterial system in kidney transplant candidates with non-contrast pelvic computed tomography. Clinical transplantation (Jul), 35(7): e14331.
- Johannesson L, Koon EC, Bayer J, McKenna GJ, Wall A, Fernandez H, Martinez EJ, Gupta A, Ruiz R, Onaca N, Testa G. (2021) Dallas UtErus Transplant Study: Early Outcomes and Complications of Robot-assisted Hysterectomy for Living Uterus Donors. Transplantation (Jan), 105(1): 225-230.
- Ruiz R, Cox T, McKenna GJ, Onaca N, Testa G, Fernandez H, Bayer J, Wall A, Martinez E, Gupta A, DiNubila JM, Jennings N, Wicklund K. (2020) Effect of subcutaneous tissue depth on outcomes of kidney transplantation. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) (Dec), 34(2): 237-241. doi:10.1080/08998280.2020.1852835
- Testa G, McKenna GJ, Bayer J, Wall A, Fernandez H, Martinez E, Gupta A, Ruiz R, Onaca N, Gunby RT, Gregg AR, Olausson M, Koon EC, Johannesson L. (2020) The Evolution of Transplantation From Saving Lives to Fertility Treatment: DUETS (Dallas UtErus Transplant Study). Annals of surgery (Sep), 272(3): 411-417.
- Draoua M, Titze N, Gupta A, Fernandez HT, Ramsay M, Saracino G, McKenna G, Testa G, Klintmalm GB, Kim PTW. (2017) Significance of measured intraoperative portal vein flows after thrombendvenectomy in deceased donor liver transplantations with portal vein thrombosis. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society (Aug), 23(8): 1032-1039.
- Kim PT, Fernandez H, Gupta A, Saracino G, Ramsay M, McKenna GJ, Testa G, Anthony T, Onaca N, Ruiz RM, Klintmalm GB. (2017) Low Measured Hepatic Artery Flow Increases Rate of Biliary Strictures in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation: An Age-Dependent Phenomenon. Transplantation (Feb), 101(2): 332-340.
- Fernandez H, Weber J, Barnes K, Wright L, Levy M. (2016) Financial Impact of Liver Sharing and Organ Procurement Organizations' Experience With Share 35: Implications for National Broader Sharing. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (Jan), 16(1): 287-91.
- Fernandez HT, Kim PT, Anthony TL, Hamman BL, Goldstein RM, Testa G. (2015) Inferior vena cava reconstruction for leiomyosarcoma of Zone I-III requiring complete hepatectomy and bilateral nephrectomy with autotransplantation. Journal of surgical oncology (Oct), 112(5): 481-5.
- Woods T, Jennings NB, Fernandez HT, Onaca N, Carlile BK, Levy MF, Gould DL, Ruiz R. (2015) Renal Autotransplantation in Lynch Syndrome: A Viable Option in a Patient With Contralateral Metachronous Ureteral Cancer. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (Sep), 15(9): 2507-10.
- Romanowski K, Zaborin A, Fernandez H, Poroyko V, Valuckaite V, Gerdes S, Liu DC, Zaborina OY, Alverdy JC. (2011) Prevention of siderophore- mediated gut-derived sepsis due to P. aeruginosa can be achieved without iron provision by maintaining local phosphate abundance: role of pH. BMC microbiology (Sep), 11: 212. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-11-212
- Zaborina O, Holbrook C, Chen Y, Long J, Zaborin A, Morozova I, Fernandez H, Wang Y, Turner JR, Alverdy JC. (2008) Structure-function aspects of PstS in multi-drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS pathogens (Feb), 4(2): e43. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0040043
Professional Memberships:
- AASLD (2020–2023)
- AHPBA/IHPBA (2018–present)
- ASTS (2013–present)
- ACS (2008–present)
Presentations:
- "Patient Management Strategy and Candidate Selection for Liver Re-Transplantation due to Hepatic Artery Thrombosis" ASTS Winter Symposium (2022)
- "An Unusual Case of Gastric Outlet Obstruction: Bouveret Syndrome" ACG (2021)
- "Hepatic Artery Thrombosis and Liver Transplantation: Patient Management and Candidate Selection for Re-Transplantation" ATC Virtual Connect (2021)
- "Comprehensive profiling of serum small RNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma patients during liver transplantation: identification of clinical biomarkers and actionable targets" ASTS Winter Symposium (2020)
- "Expanding the donor pool in a cost effective manner" ASTS Winter Symposium (2020)
- "Hepatic Artery Thrombosis and Liver Transplantation: Patient Management and Candidate Selection for Re-Transplantation" ASTS Winter Symposium (2020)
- "Antibiotic Use Improves Patient Survival Following Hepatic Artery Thrombosis" ASTS Winter Symposium (2017)
- "Living Donor Liver Transplant: Cost Benefit to Deceased Donation" ASTS Winter Symposium (2017)
- "Intra-operative Hepatic Arterial Flow Predicts Hepatic Artery Complications after Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation" American Transplant Congress (2016)
- "Pancreatic Allograft Failure in Latino Recipients: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Conversion?" American Transplant Congress (2016)
- "The Ethics of Shifting the US Framework of Living Kidney Donation from a Disincentive to an Incentive Based Model. Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Transplantation" ELPAT (2016)
- "Impact of OPOs of Mandated Broader Liver Sharing: Single Large Metropolitan Experience" ASTS Winter Symposium (2016)
- "Intra-operative Hepatic Arterial Flow Predicts Hepatic Artery Complications after Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation" ASTS Winter Symposium (2016)
- "Comprehensive Computerized Living Liver Donor Evaluation to Increase Candidates Considered for Donation" ESOT (2015)
- "Enhancing Beneficence and Justice in Living Donor Organ Transplantation: Lifelong Medical Coverage for Living Donor" ESOT (2015)
- "Impact of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis on Patient and Allograft Survival: Indication for Re-Transplantation" ESOT (2015)
- "Liver Specific MRI as the Singular Preoperative Imaging Tool in Potential Living Liver Donors" ESOT (2015)
- "Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Needs a Different Ethical Framework" ESOT (2015)
- "Triangulation of Venous Outflow in Right Living Liver Donor Liver Transplantation" ESOT (2015)
- "Early and Late Hepatic Artery Thrombosis are Indications for Liver Re-Transplantation: Outcomes and Allograft Survival" ILTS (2015)
- "Outcomes in Re-Transplantation for Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in Patients Infected with High Risk Organisms" ILTS (2015)
- "National Financial Impact of Broader Liver Sharing: The OPO Experience with Share 35" ASTS Winter Symposium (2015)
- "Re-establishing Life Expectancy in Advanced Age Patients Through Liver Transplantation" ASTS Winter Symposium (2015)
- "Triangulation of Venous Outflow in Right Living Liver Donor Liver Transplantation" Texas Surgical Society (2014)
- "Liver Specific MRI as the Only Imaging and Steatosis Quantification Tool in Potential Liver Living Donors: An Evolution of Approach" World Transplant Congress (2014)
- "Variables Affecting Long-Term Survival after Liver Transplantation" World Transplant Congress (2014)
- "Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patient Extended Waiting Times for Liver Transplantation: Clinical and Financial Implications" International Liver Transplant Society Congress (2014)
- "Intraoperative Hepatic Arterial Flow Predicts Hepatic Artery Complications after Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation" Advances in Organ Transplantation (2014)
- "Intraoperative Hepatic Arterial Flow Predicts Hepatic Artery Complications after Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation" ASTS Winter Symposium (2014)
- "Hybrid Endoscopic and Laparoscopic GIST Resection" Academic Excellence Day, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (2013)
- "Fever of Unknown Origin: A Rare Case Presentation of Simultaneous Adrenal and Neurologic Tubercular Abscess" Academic Excellence Day, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (2012)
- "Contrast Induced Nephropathy in Trauma Patients" Southwestern Surgical Congress (2012)
- "Fever of Unknown Origin: A Rare Case Presentation of Simultaneous Adrenal and Neurologic Tubercular Abscess" Southwestern Surgical Congress (2012)
- "Non Small Cell Carcinoma Metastasis to the Small Bowel" Academic Excellence Day, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (2011)
- "Hybrid Endoscopic and Laparoscopic GIST Resection" Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Annual Meeting (2011)
- "Pediatric ATV Trauma: Children Behind the Wheel" Academic Excellence Day, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (2010)
- "Pediatric ATV Trauma: Children Behind the Wheel" Southwestern Surgical Congress (2010)
- "Pediatric ATV Trauma: Children Behind the Wheel" Southwest Trauma and Acute Care Symposium (2009)
- "Upregulation of Virulence Factors by Actin and pH in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" Academic Surgical Congress (2008)
- "Upregulation of Virulence Factors by Actin and pH in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" University of Chicago Summer Annual Senior Scientific Session (2008)