Dr. Enrique C. Fernandez is a family physician in private practice in Kendall, Miami, where he has cared for patients with type 2 diabetes for over twenty-five years. He is the founder of Enrique Fernandez MD PA and holds the credentials MD, MBA, FAAFP — Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
That clinical work, accumulated over more than two decades of practice, is the foundation of the NBDC framework — Network Based Diabetes Care — which reframes type 2 diabetes as a self-amplifying network of seven molecular damage pathways rather than a single condition defined by blood sugar. The framework rests on the conviction that what patients eat, when they eat it, and how they prepare it matters as much as the medications they take — and that physicians, given the right framework, can teach this in clinical practice.
Dr. Fernandez is the author of Eating Against the Network, the first volume of the NBDC series. He is also the author of the Cuban medical history manuscript Before the Fall: Cuban Medicine and the Civilization the Revolution Destroyed, which traces a family lineage that runs back through two generations of Cuban physicians and journalists.
He is the great-nephew of Dr. Augusto Fernández Conde, president of the Colegio Médico Nacional of Cuba from 1953 to 1959, and the grandson of Carlos Fernández Conde, the Cuban Senate’s parliamentary journalist who died in January 1944. Their professional lives — one in medicine, one in the journalism that covered Cuban medical policy — gave him an inherited sense that medicine is both a clinical discipline and a civic responsibility.
He lives and practices in Miami, where his patients and his family — across three generations of physicians, journalists, and the people they served — remain the reason the work matters.
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