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Dr. David Hernandez

“From my youngest days, I have perceived and been fascinated by the alignment between the physical and the spiritual,” says the noted research scientist, Dr. David Hernandez, who assumed office as the sixth chair of the board of directors of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies on July 1. Dr Hernandez, a native of the Upper West Side of New York City and a 1984 graduate of Saint Leo, has held a lifelong commitment to promoting justice and understanding between peoples of all races and faiths.

Dr. Hernandez is a diagnostic radiological physicist. He is founder and President of Radiation Protection Associates of Dade City, Florida, an organization providing medical physics services to hospitals, physicians and research facilities. He recently founded HealthCare Resource Development, Inc. (HRD), a firm doing cutting-edge research and development of the relatively new science of Diagnosimetrics. Among the internationally-recognized experts in this new field, Dr. Hernandez and his HRD colleagues are doing path-finding work in the analysis of the data produced by the hundreds of thousands of tests used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with the intent of more efficiently delivering successful medical diagnosis, and treatment. The aims of his research include greater patient safety through reduced exposure to radiation and improving the quality of care, while also increasing institutional efficiencies for insurance companies and healthcare providers.

After graduating from Saint Leo, Dr. Hernandez was a graduate student at Yale University in the Connecticut School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, where he further developed the 1985 Project of Excellence, the development of an Illness Specific Diagnostic Technology. He received his master of public health degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his Ph.D in applied radiological physics from the Union Institute in Cincinnati. He pursued post-doctoral students at the University of Washington College of Medical Physics, and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In additional to his affiliation with the two Dade City institutions, Dr. Hernandez served as Medical Radiological Physicist and Director of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology at the Touro Infirmary, a 575-bed acute care teaching hospital in New Orleans.

Dr. Hernandez was elected to the Saint Leo University Board of Trustees in 2002 and was nominated to the Board of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies in 2007. In 2009, he led CCJS’s ongoing strategic planning process. A resident of Dade City, Dr. Hernandez is married to Camille Hernandez, a Dade City Commissioner. They and their three children are members of Saint Rita’s parish in Dade City.

Preceding David Hernandez, the office of chair has alternated between Jews and Catholics beginning with the late Bruce Sands, followed by General Thomas Draude, Morton and Carol Siegler, Gail Whiting, and Ruthie Maass.