Bernadette Fernandez

Bernadette O. Fernandez is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on nitric oxide bioactivity, metabolic syndrome, and critical illness outcomes with a particular emphasis on redox biology and clinical biomarkers. She collaborates extensively with multidisciplinary teams in perioperative medicine, transplantation science, and exercise physiology.

Her work examines how nitric oxide metabolites influence cardiovascular health, metabolic disorders, and pulmonary function across diverse patient populations including COPD sufferers, kidney transplant recipients, and critically ill patients. Key areas include developing biomarkers for predicting clinical outcomes and investigating nutritional interventions (e.g., dietary nitrate supplementation) to improve exercise tolerance in hypoxic conditions.

Recent studies highlight her contributions to understanding bioenergetic differences between survivors and non-survivors in critical care settings, as well as exploring redox status changes during exercise in diabetes patients. Her research integrates clinical data with biochemical analyses to advance translational medicine.