Newsroom & PublicationsErik Fernandez y Garcia, M.D., M.P.H. 
Philosophy of Care
It is Dr. Fernandez y Garcia's goal to address pediatric healthcare and health maintenance through the lens of family dynamics and cultural humility. He strives to form cooperative relationships with the parents of patients and their communities to ensure that his patient (the child) reaches his or her fullest potential.
He hopes to propagate this philosophy by teaching pediatric residents at the UC Davis General Pediatric Clinic and The Effort Oak Park clinic and medical students in the "Transforming Education and Community Health for Medical Students" program.
He also brings this philosophy of care to his research in pediatric-based intergenerational mental healthcare and the National Children's Study.
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2521 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
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Education:
Los Angeles, California
M.D. 1999
UCLA
Los Angeles, California
M.P.H. 2000
St. Mary's College of California
Moraga, California
B.S. 1995
Residency:
Oakland, California
2003
Pediatrics
Fellowships:
Sacramento , CA
2010-Current
Clinical and Translational Research Scholar
National Institute of Mental Health
Sacramento , CA
2008-2010
Diversity Supplement
UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, CA
2007
Teaching Scholars Program
UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, CA
2006-2008
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research-Primary Care Outcomes Research
Children's Hospital and Research
Oakland, California
2004
Office of Multicultural Health
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Board Member, Sacramento Latino Medical Association (SaLMA)
Honors and Awards:
Faculty Teaching Award – UC Davis Pediatric Residency Program, 2006
Dr. Charles R. Drew Award – Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science’s highest award for exemplary combination of compassion and academic excellence over all years of training, 1999
Primary Care Research Award, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, 1999
Select Recent Publications:
Timmer SG, Ho L, Urquiza AJ, Zebell NM, Boys D, Fernandez y Garcia E, and Thompson D. The Effectiveness of Patient-Child Interactive Therapy with Depressed Mothers: the Changing Relationship as the Agent of Individual Change. Child Psychiatry Human Development 2011 August; 42 (4): 406-423
Fernandez y Garcia E, Franks PR, Jerant T, Bell RA, and Kravitz RL. Depression Treatment Preferences of Hispanic Individuals: Exploring the Influence of Ethnicity, Language and Explanatory Models. Journal American Board of Family Medicine 2011 Jan-Feb; 24(1): 39-50
Fernandez y Garcia E, LaCaze C, and Ratansen M. Continuous Quality Improvement for Postpartum Depression Screening and Referral. Pediatrics International 2011 April; 53 (2): 277-279
Fernandez y Garcia E, Nguyen H, Duan N, Gabler NB, and Kravitz RL. Assessing Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects: Are Authors Misinterpreting Their Results? Health Services Research 2010 Feb; 45(1):283-301
Fernandez y Garcia E. Screening for maternal depression past the postpartum period in pediatric settings: some answers to pediatricians' common questions and concerns. California Pediatrician. Summer 2010; 26 (1): 26-28
Lau KK, Fernandez y Garcia E, et al. Bilateral renal venous thrombosis and adrenal hemorrhage: sequential prenatal ultrasound with postnatal recovery. Pediatric Radiology. 2007 Sep;37(9):912-5. PMID: 17546451
Tervalon, M and Fernandez, E. Cultural Humility: a contribution to health professional education in Nutritional Genomics. In Nutrigenomics: Discovering the Path to Personalized Nutrition. Editors: Kaput, J and Rodriguez, RL. Wiley Sons. 2006.
Fernandez, E. Learning about diverse cultural traditions: frameworks to move from appreciation to action. California Pediatrician. Fall 2004; 20(2):18-19
