Fernando is the Department Chair and Chief of Psychology, and Medical director at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in the Los Angeles area, while also maintaining a private practice conducting AMEs, QMEs and IMEs. He is co-director of training/neuropsychology at Rancho and is board certified as a Rehabilitation Psychologist. As a bilingual hospital psychologist he has worked with numerous patient populations, including brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, amputation, epilepsy and others. He has published and presented in a variety of areas including culture, malingering, substance abuse, and pain management.