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Published on April 2, 2020 by Rui Fernandes

Rui Fernandes – Jacksonville, Florida

Practice Contact Information

University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville
653 8th Street West

Jacksonville
Florida
32209
United States

Phone: 904-244-3901
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Areas of Interest in Head and Neck Surgery

Endocrine Surgery, Head and Neck Surgeon, Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery


Biography/Statement

Dr. Fernandes is a Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with Certificate of Added Qualification in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Surgery by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.  He is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Florida and holds appointments in the Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery and the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville.  Currently. He serves as the Chief of Head and Neck Surgery, Director of the Head and Neck/Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery fellowship, Director of the Center for Reconstructive Surgery, Co-Director of the Skull Base Surgery Program and Associate Chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

Dr. Fernandes is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (ad. Hominem), as well as many other surgical and medical associations in the USA. He is an honorary fellow of the Spanish Society of OMS, the Mexican Association of OMS, Pakistan Association of OMS, the Panamanian Association of OMS, and the Costa Rican Society of OMS.

He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and has authored numerous manuscripts in the areas of head and neck oncology and reconstructive surgery as well a single author textbook Atlas of Local & Regional Flaps in Head and Neck Surgery and is co-editor of the textbook Oral, Head Neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery. He currently serves as the Editor of the OMS Clinics of North America, the Atlas of the OMS clinics, and the AOCMF journal, Craniomaxillofacial Trauma and Reconstruction.

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