Yadira Martinez-Fernandez, MD - Pediatric Cardiologist

Director, Outpatient Cardiology
Co-Director, NeuroCardiac and Development Program

Dr. Martinez-Fernandez is board certified in pediatric cardiologist with many years of experience in the field. She earned her medical degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras and completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She then pursued further specialization in pediatric cardiology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Her clinical interests include congenital heart disease and preventive cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Martinez-Fernandez is the director of Outpatient Cardiology and co-director of the NeuroCardiac and Development Program within the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, working collaboratively to provide specialized care for children with complex cardiac and neurological conditions. In addition, she actively participates in multidisciplinary clinics such as Spasticity and Movement Disorder Clinic, the Chromosome 22 Q Clinic, Rett Syndrome Clinic and Tuberous sclerosis Clinic, offering her expertise in Cardiology in the management of those patients. Dr. Martinez-Fernandez also serves on the board of South Florida Autism Charter Schools and delivers educational lectures to parents of children affected by autism. She has published peer-reviewed articles and presented at medical conferences. She sees patients at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and is bilingual in English and Spanish.

The Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s, a world leader in pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery for the care of children with congenital heart disease, serves as a beacon to families confronting the reality of a child or newborn with a heart defect. The Heart Institute offers the most innovative and least invasive approaches to  the treatment of congenital heart disease, including many first-in-the-world procedures that were pioneered right here by The Heart Institute’s own internationally renowned cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons.