Lorna Fernandes
Senior Public Information Representative
Lorna Fernandes, senior public information representative at UCSF, manages media relations for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals overall and is the point person for day-to-day media stories for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.
She has more than 25 years of experience in news reporting and communications, starting as a reporter at the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Business Times. After covering tech and business as a reporter, Lorna moved into communications for tech companies, including PeopleSoft, Oracle and Sybase. She went on to work with Brown & Toland and with Kaiser Permanente, before her previous position managing media relations for Alameda Health System. Lorna holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Francisco State University.
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What is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)?
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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Rank Among the Best for 2022-23
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Stad Gift Launches Center for Pediatric Pain and Integrative Medicine
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UCSF Expands Full-Service Children’s Health Care in Walnut Creek
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Sickle Cell Clinical Trial Aims to Cure Disease by Correcting Patient’s Mutated Gene
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UCSF Launches Community Investment Program to Support Housing and Minority-Owned Small Businesses
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