Dr. Hernández was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She was awarded a scholarship to attend Yale University where she received her bachelor’s degree in science. She received her Medical Degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. She did her internal medicine residency in the Harvard Hospital System in Boston and her cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at the Hospital of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and the Lankenau Medical Center. Dr. Hernández is Board Certified by the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. She is also the Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University.
She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Serving as a cardiologist for 30 years and on the medical staff of Main Line Health System for over 25 years, Dr. Hernández specializes in managing patients with heart rhythm disorders and has played an active role in cardiac arrhythmia clinical research.
She is co-founder and serves as the Medical Director of Lankenau Heart Institute’s Women’s Heart Initiative, supporting awareness, education, and prevention of heart disease in women within the community and in Main Line Health System. Under her leadership, Women’s Heart Initiative started the first emotional support group in the Philadelphia area for women living with heart disease, “Heart to Heart Conversations”. She co-authored “A Woman’s Guide to Protect Her Heart” which focuses on educating women about their unique risk factors for heart disease. Dr Hernandez started collaboration between cardiologists and obstetrics –gynecology specialists at Main Line Health System to provide optimal care to pregnant and postpartum women with heart disease and women who suffered complications during pregnancy. In collaboration with the nursing staff from cardiology and obstetrics departments, she set up the first system in the Philadelphia region to assign dedicated beds for cardiac telemetry monitoring within the postpartum unit.
Dr. Hernández has a long-standing passion for fighting heart disease with an emphasis on personal outreach to the Latina community. She also helped to organize and served as Spanish language speaker at the annual Go Red Por Tu Corazon American Heart Association Latina Luncheon in Philadelphia for many years. She was the recipient of the AHA Philadelphia Chapter’s 2014 Por Tu Corazón Ambassador Award for her volunteer work educating Latina women and the Hispanic community.
Dr. Hernandez is a member of professional and nonprofit community organizations. They include board member of Congreso de Latinos Unidos in Philadelphia, member of the Women’s Nonprofit Leadership Initiative and member of the Board of Directors of Stanford University Alumni Association.
