Gerardo Fernandez

Dr. Fernandez is a co-founder and currently Chief Scientific Officer of PreciseDx, in addition to his position as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System. He received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology as well as fellowships in surgical pathology and cytopathology from New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Fernandez has spent the last seven years as Associate Professor at Mount Sinai building and developing the PreciseDx team and platform. Before that, he was in the industry as the Medical Director for Roche Tissue Diagnostics’ (Ventana) Digital Pathology group, Vice President for Pathology and Research and Development at Aureon Biosciences, and a Staff Pathologist at Genzyme Genetics, where he specialized in oncologic pathology and tissue biomarkers.