Fellowships

• University Of Minnesota, 2015, Pediatric Cardiology

Residency

• New York Presbyterian Hospital, 2012, Pediatrics

Internships

• University Of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, 2011, Pediatrics

Medical Education

• Instituto Superior De Ciencias Medicas De Villa Cl, 1996

Certifications

• American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatric Cardiology
• American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatrics

Publications

• View Dr. Lazaro Hernandez's publications on PubMed

Editorial Positions

• Reviewer: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Imaging: 2016-present.
• Reviewer: Journal of Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: 2016-present.
• Reviewer: Cardiology in the Young: 2015-present.

Research

My research focuses on the use of advanced cardiac imaging in children with congenital and acquired heart conditions, including those with heart transplantation. 

Recent research projects include:

• 4D flow in Fontan Patients. A cardiac MRI study.
• Enduring Heart Grant: Cardiac MRI Assessment of Rejection and Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.
• Does myocardial scarring identify patients at risk in childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? A multicenter study

Professional Organizations

• American College of Cardiology
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Society of Echocardiography
• Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Presentations

• Regadenoson-induced microvascular dysfunction in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Society of Cardiac MRI meeting. Washington 2017.
• Synthetic hematocrit derived from the longitudinal relaxation of blood can lead to clinically significant errors in measurement of extracellular volume fraction in pediatric and young adult patients. Society of Cardiac MRI meeting. Washington 2017.
• Global left ventricular relaxation: a useful predictive echocardiographic marker of heart transplant rejection and recovery in children. ASE meeting. Seattle 2016.
• Total Lymphoid Irradiation to Successfully Treat Refractory Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients. Poster Presentation 35th Annual Meeting of ISHLT, April 2015, Nice, France.
• Global Left Ventricular Relaxation. A Novel tissue Doppler Index of acute ejection in Pediatric Heart Transplantation. Oral presentation 34th Annual Meeting of ISHLT, April 2014, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Impact of Cardiac MRI in the Instruction of Left Ventricular Assessment by 3D Echocardiography. Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University, New York. Poster Presentation at 24th Annual Echo Hawaii-ASE, January 20-24, 2014.2013.

Awards

• Fellow investigator award. University of Minnesota 2015
• Young investigator award. American Society of Echocardiography 2016