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American engineer and scientist

Christopher J. Hernandez is an American engineer and scientist who currently serves as professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.[1]

Education[edit]

Hernandez received his BS in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University in 1996.[2] He went on to graduate from Stanford University with a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 and 2001 respectively.[2]

Hernandez worked at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and at UC Berkeley prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve University.[3] He served as a faculty member in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University from 2010 to 2022.[2]

He currently leads the Hernandez Research Group. Hernandez’s “research in biomechanics examines the musculoskeletal system and microscopic organisms.”[2][4] In 2021, the National Institutes of Health awarded his team a five-year, $3.6 million grant to study how the gut microbiome affects bone quality.[5]

Honors and awards[edit]

Some of Hernandez’s honors have included:

Hernandez is a member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research[13] and the Orthopaedic Research Society.[14]

Personal life[edit]

Hernandez was born in Fresno, California and is Mexican American.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^

    “Department welcomes Christopher Hernandez, PhD, Professor, UCSF Musculoskeletal Research Center | UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery”. orthosurgery.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-16.

  2. ^ a b c d e “Christopher J. Hernandez, Professor | Cornell Engineering”. www.engineering.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  3. ^ “ORCID”. orcid.org. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  4. ^ Dance, Amber (23 February 2022). “Fun facts about bones: More than just scaffolding”. Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-022222-1. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  5. ^ “Researchers look to gut microbiome to improve bone health”. Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  6. ^ “NSF Award Search: Award # 2135586 – BRITE Fellow: Rigid Engineered Living Materials”. nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
  7. ^ “2021 STAR Awards”. SHPE. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  8. ^ “BMES”. www.bmes.org. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  9. ^ “Fellow Directory – AIMBE”. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  10. ^ “Associate Professor Christopher Hernandez elected ASME Fellow | Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering”. www.mae.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  11. ^ “2019 Class of Fellows – American Society for Bone and Mineral Research”. www.asbmr.org. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  12. ^ “Fuller Albright Award”. American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 2009-01-22. Archived from the original on 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  13. ^ “Meet Chris Hernandez, Ph.D. – American Society for Bone and Mineral Research”. www.asbmr.org. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  14. ^ “ORS board of directors 2019”.
  15. ^ Hernandez, Christopher (2016-12-06). “Opinion: My own McFarland story, with a happy ending”. Fox News. Retrieved 2019-06-11.