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Keith Hernandez, MD

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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

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Medical Director, Shoreline Medical Center

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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Medical Director, Shoreline Medical Center

Biography

Dr. Hernandez began his career working at New York University as a research assistant collecting field data at multiple nuclear power plants for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Environmental Protection Agency. Upon completing internships at the Soviet Mission and United Nations he became a Federal Counterintelligence Special Agent and Military Aviator living and working in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South Pacific.

After sustaining a career ending lung injury in Iraq he enrolled in the Vocational Rehabilitation Program through the Veterans Administration Office. Selecting medicine as a second career he attended Anesthesia residency at Yale and remained upon graduation to become the Medical Director at Shoreline Surgery Center in Guilford, Connecticut.


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Education & Training

Resident
Yale University School of Medicine (2007)
Intern
Tucson Hospitals (2004)
MD
University of Arizona (2003)
BS
State University of New York at New Paltz (1980)

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Clinical Care

Overview

Keith Hernandez, MD, is an anesthesiologist and a former military pilot who came to medicine after a career-ending lung injury in Iraq.

Similar to aviation, anesthesiology focuses heavily on safety and established protocols.

“We have the challenge of safely and efficiently running multiple operating rooms, as well as providing a positive experience for our patients, surgeons, and staff,” Dr. Hernandez says.

He says he enjoys reassuring and comforting patients who are about to go into the operating room. “I tell them they will be safe and expertly cared for,” he says. “I also assure them that we don’t do any anesthesia training here. No one is learning on your airway. The tube will go in while you are asleep and come out before you wake up. None of this makes for a good movie. We make sure you are sleeping and breathing.”

Dr. Hernandez is the medical director of Yale Medicine Shoreline Outpatient Surgical Services in Guilford.

Clinical Specialties

Anesthesiology

Board Certifications

  • Anesthesiology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Anesthesiology
    Original Certification Date
    2011

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Anesthesiology

PO Box 208051, 333 Cedar Street, TMP 3

New Haven, CT 06520-8051

United States

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