Teri Hernandez RN, PhD

Dr. Hernandez completed her undergraduate degree in nursing at the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois in 1994. She then worked as a medical and oncology nurse in the Chicago area and was granted admission to a cardiovascular nurse internship program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas in 1995. During her years at Baylor, she fulfilled a variety of roles as a cardiovascular nurse, including post-operative cardiothoracic, heart/lung transplant, telemetry, charge nurse/supervisor, and cardiac rehabilitation educator. In 2000, she came to the University of Colorado Hospital and worked on 8 West General Clinical Research Center. She joined Dr. Robert Eckel as part of his research team in 2001 and joined the faculty in Endocrinology as an Instructor in 2005. Her Master of Science in Nursing degree was conferred in May 2005 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Nursing, also at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Research interests include cardiovascular disease prevention and risk education, diabetes and insulin resistance, gestational diabetes, lipids and lipid metabolism, obesity and fat metabolism, and research design/program development. She is also interested in philosophy as it pertains to nursing science and other human sciences.