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Claudia Hernandez, MD

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology

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BA, Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Dermatology Residency. Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Claudia Hernandez, MD, joined the Department of Dermatology in May 2016 as an associate professor and active attending. She graduated from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 1996, completed an internship in Internal Medicine at University of Chicago in 1997, and her Dermatology residency in 2000 at Northwestern University Medical Center.

Hernandez’s research interests include health disparities, skin cancer and simulation in education and assessment. She was the recipient of NIH grant funding and her work was selected as a featured poster at the World Congress of Dermatology meeting in Vancouver, Canada in 2015 for her project “Improving dermatology residents ' communication skills with non-English speaking patients via collaboration with medical interpreter services.” She was also the recipient of the International Award for Social Responsibility at the World Congress of Dermatology, Seoul, South Korea in 2011 for her project “Increasing opportunistic melanoma surveillance in underserved Hispanic communities via a dermatology partnership with health lay workers.” Hernandez has served on the editorial board for JAMA Dermatology for more than years and is the author of over a hundred published abstracts and articles.
1. Wang S, Shadrake L, Scott P, Kim H, Hernandez C. Comparing medical student melanoma detection rates in White and Black skin using moulage and standardized patients. (In press: Clinical Research in Dermatology)
2. Serret C, Wang S, Marsch A, Hernandez C. Pigmented squamous cell carcinoma presenting as melanonychia striata in a transplant patient. (In press Cutis)
3. Au S, Hernandez C. Paradoxical induction of psoriasis and lichen planus by TNFa inhibitors. SKINmed 2015 Sept/Oct; 135(5): 403-405.
4. Wang S, Martini M, Groth J, Hernandez C. Dermatoscopic and clinicopathologic findings of cutaneous blastomycosis. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2015 Nov;73(5):e169-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2015.07.024. PMID: 26475557
5. Wang S, Seelaus R, Rea CA, Hernandez C. Use of a melanoma simulation model in a dermatology objective structured clinical examination station. Med Teach 2015 Feb; 37 (2) 2002-3. doi:10.3109/0142159X.2014.940882. Epub 2014 Jul 23. PMID: 25052461
Published abstracts:
1. Krakora D, Guitart J, Hernandez C. Syringotrophic mycosis fungoides, a rare form of cutaneous T-Cell lymphoma. American Academy of Dermatology 74th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., March 2016. J Am Acad Dermatol (2016 May) 74S1(5): AB 183.
2. StClaire K, Hernandez C. Undiagnosed Brooke-Spiegler Syndrome in a 44 year-old. American Academy of Dermatology 74th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., March 2016. J Am Acad Dermatol (2016 May) 74S1(5): AB 125.
3. Jerdan K, Hernandez C, Groth J. Perforating folliculitis in an HIV patient with hepatocellular carcinoma treated with sorafenib. American Academy of Dermatology 74th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., March 2016. J Am Acad Dermatol (2016 May) 74S1(5): AB 222.
4. Krakora D, Jerdan K, Vanaman M, Hernandez C. Recurrent dermatofibroma protuberans with suspected pulmonary metastases. American Academy of Dermatology 74th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., March 2016. J Am Acad Dermatol (2015 May) 74S1(5): AB 203.

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