Joseph Steven Fernandez-Moure
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Current Research Interests

I am an academic surgeon with a practice in trauma, critical care and acute care surgery with an active research program focused on the development and translation of therapeutic strategies to improve the healing of acute traumatic injuries. My motivation for this works lies in the lack of available therapeutics for acute traumatic wounds which are often left to heal without intervention. Rib fractures exemplify this problem. I want to provide treatment solutions to the trauma patient where none exist. My work is focused on enhancing the innate capacity of the body to heal broken bones and acute traumatic wounds through the use of engineered scaffolds, nanomaterials, and drug delivery systems. We are applying biomedical engineering principles to common traumatic injuries and in particular, rib fractures. We lack minimally invasive approaches to rib fracture repair and I have focused my lab on developing therapeutic solutions to this common injury. Using biologically derived materials we have studied the innate immune response to wound healing. I have been actively involved in the development of instruments and devices related to the treatment of rib fractures and chest wall injury. I have extensive expertise in the handling of tissue-engineered constructs for soft tissue healing and boney repair as well as the establishment and optimization of large and small animal models for the evaluation of engineered and commercially available prosthetics. 


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