
Thomas Fernandez MD
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center & Department of Psychiatry
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230 S Frontage RdNew Haven, CT 06519
Phone+1 203-785-2559
Fax+1 203-785-7400
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Summary
- Dr. Thomas Fernandez is a psychiatrist in New Haven, CT and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and has been in practice 12 years. He specializes in child & adolescent psychiatry and is experienced in tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, adhd, stereotypic movement disorder, and anxiety disorders.
Education & Training
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 2005 - 2011
Yale School of MedicineClass of 2005
Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, NIH CampusB.A., Genetics, Molecular Biology, 1997 - 1999
Princeton UniversityB.A., Neuropsychology, Cum Laude, 1993 - 1997
Certifications & Licensure
CT State Medical License 2007 - 2026
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Yale Psychiatric Research Scholar Department of Psychiatry and Child Study Center, 2012
- Junior Scholar Award Campaign for America’s Kids/ American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011
- Travel Award American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Motor stereotypies in toddlers with and without autism: A transdiagnostic dimension.Katarzyna Chawarska, Thomas V Fernandez, Anna Milgramm, Fred Volkmar, Mariana Torres-Viso
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. 2026-01-01 - Rare coding mutations identify 36 large-effect risk genes in obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders.Belinda Wang, Matthew N Tran, Sheng Wang, Yuting Liu, Emily Olfson
Medrxiv. 2025-10-14 - 2 citationsInterneuron Loss and Microglia Activation by Transcriptome Analyses in the Basal Ganglia of Tourette Disorder.Yifan Wang, Liana Fasching, Feinan Wu, Milovan Suvakov, Anita Huttner
Biological Psychiatry. 2025-08-01
Journal Articles
- Investigation of Previously Implicated Genetic Variants in Chronic Tic Disorders: A Transmission Disequilibrium Test ApproachBarbara J Coffey, Donald L Gilbert, Lawrence W Brown, Dorothy E Grice, Thomas V Fernandez, Samuel Kuperman, Samuel H Zinner, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Wernicke’s and right homologous sites to curtail “voices”: A randomized trial.Hoffman RE, Wu K, Pittman B, Cahill JD, Hawkins KA, Fernandez T, Hannestad J, Biological Psychiatry, 1/1/2013
- Genome-wide association study of Tourette syndrome.Scharf JM, Yu D, Matthews CA, Neale BM, et al., Molecular Psychiatry, 1/1/2012
Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Searching for the genes of Tourette’s: The Tourette International Collaborative Genetics (TIC Genetics) Study.Heiman GA, Fernandez TV, Hoekstra PJ, Dietrich A, king RA, State MW, Tischfield JA, and the TIC Genetics Team, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics., 1/1/2012
- Rare Structural and Sequence Variation in Tourette Syndrome and Autism.Fernandez TV, 1st Joint Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (EUNetGTS), 12/14/2011
- Rare copy number variants in Tourette syndrome disrupt genes in histaminergic pathways and overlap with autism.Fernandez TV, Sanders SJ, Song Y, Leckman JF, King RA, Gilbert DL, Heiman GA, Tischfield JA, Hoekstra PJ, State MW, 50th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 1/1/2011
Lectures
- Genomic Investigations of Tourette Disorder.Annual Meeting for the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome / COST International Conf - 4/26/2013
- From Bedside to Bench: Translational Clinical Science and Tourette Syndrome.Yale Child Study Center Grand Rounds. New Haven, CT. - 1/15/2013
- Previews from the Pipeline: A Data Blitz Featuring Early Career Investigators.American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 59th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. - 10/24/2012
Press Mentions
Common Variants Link Autism, ADHD, Tourette SyndromeFebruary 2nd, 2021- Synaptic Processes and Immune-Related Pathways Implicated in Tourette SyndromeJanuary 18th, 2021
Study Reveals Genetic Risk Factors Associated with ADHDFebruary 8th, 2019
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