Dr. Adrian Hernandez

Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS, is a cardiologist in Durham, North Carolina, specializing in advanced heart failure and heart transplant. He serves as Executive Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Vice Dean at the Duke University School of Medicine. He earned his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1997, completed internal medicine residency at UCSF, and a cardiology fellowship at Duke. His work focuses on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, clinical trials, and health services and policy research. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.