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Javier Hernandez, M.D.

Practice Locations

  • Urology - Medical Arts & Research Center - MARC
    210-450-9600
  • Urology - Robert B. Green Campus - Downtown
    210-450-9600
hernandezj7@uthscsa.edu

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Specialties

    • Urology
    • Urology Oncology

Other Languages Spoken

  • Spanish
Javier Hernandez, M.D.

Dr. Javier Hernandez currently serves as an assistant professor in the department of urology at UT Health San Antonio. In addition to his clinical duties, he is actively involved in various research endeavors on the early detection of prostate cancer. He has an interest in all aspects of general urology as well as a particular interest in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of urologic malignancies including tumors of the kidney, bladder, prostate, testis and male genitalia.

Dr. Hernandez also has particular expertise in retroperitoneal lymph node dissections for the management of metastatic testicular cancer. He covers clinical duties at various institutions to include the UT Health Physicians Ambulatory Surgery Center, University Hospital, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Northwest Hospital and the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital.

Publications

Ankerst, D. P., Hoefler, J., Bock, S., Goodman, P. J., Vickers, A., Hernandez, J., Sokoll, L. J., Sanda, M. G., Wei, J. T., Leach, R. J. & Thompson, I. M. Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Risk Calculator 2.0 for the Prediction of Low- vs High-grade Prostate Cancer. Urology 83, 1362-1368 (2014). PMID: 24862395; PMCID: PMC4035700

Gelfond, J., Choate, K., Ankerst, D. P., Hernandez, J., Leach, R. J. & Thompson, I. M.,Jr. Intermediate-term Risk of Prostate Cancer is Directly Related to Baseline PSA: Implications for Reducing the Burden of PSA Screening. J. Urol. 194(1):46-51 (2015). PMID: 25686543

Overholser, S., Nielsen, M., Torkko, K., Cwilka, D., Weaver, B., Shi, X., Leach, R. J., Hernandez, J., Huang, T., Thompson, I. M., Jr & Thompson, I. M.,3rd. Active Surveillance is An Appropriate Management Strategy for A Proportion of Men Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer by PSA Testing. J. Urol. 194(3):680-4 (2015). PMID: 25636657

Education

Medical School: 
Duke University School of Medicine
Internship: 
Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas
Residency: 
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium

Qualifications

Board Certification:
  • American Board of Urology

Research Interests

Genitourinary Cancer

Population Science and Prevention Program 

Dr. Javier Hernandez's research profile

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Media

San Antonio Magazine Top Doctors 2022
More about this provider

  • Thompson, San Antonio researchers among those honored at AUA Annual Meeting
  • ‘Out of the 4.0 box thinking’ benefited South Texas patient


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