Caraciolo J. Fernandes, MD, MBA

Dr. Caraciolo Fernandes is an academic neonatologist whose clinical experience and training spans three different countries/continents (India, Australia and the United States) and over three decades. He has been at Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine since 1994.

In the Texas Children’s Hospital Newborn Center, he has served as the Medical Director for Neonatal Transport since 2008. During this time, he also was the founding Program Director for the Section of Neonatology’s Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) programs from 2015 to 2020.

As a clinician-educator and researcher, Dr. Fernandes enjoys working with Baylor students, residents and fellows whose questioning minds help him learn daily. He is actively involved in various aspects of Neonatology-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship education, including crafting the Neo Summer School, mentoring fellows, clinical bedside teaching, ECMO rounds and other duties. He also enjoys participating in multidisciplinary clinical research, quality improvement (QI) initiatives, simulation training for fellows, and discussions about challenging diagnostic and ethical clinical cases. He is a QI Faculty and Coach in Baylor’s Institute for Continuing Professional Development in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.

Nationally, he is a past member of Executive Committee of the Section of Transport Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and an editor of the inaugural edition of the Field Guide for Air and Ground Transport of Neonatal and Pediatric Patients that was introduced at the AAP National conference in November 2018. Dr. Fernandes is a senior editor of “Guidelines for the Acute Care of the Neonate,” currently in its 31st annual revision, a handbook that has served as a resource for medical caregivers at Baylor-affiliated institutions for more than two decades, and, currently, for practitioners in over 65 countries. With a vision of improving neonatal care globally, the Baylor Division of Neonatology has made a downloadable version of the Guidelines available to all caregivers who wish to have a copy of this crucial resource. A list of his publications may be found on NCBI Pubmed and Google Scholar.

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