About AHM
Aurum Haven Medical is an internal medicine practice by Dr. JD Fernandez specializing in gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) for trans and gender-diverse adults.
About Dr. Fernandez
At A Glance:
Board-certified Internal Medicine physician
Former UCLA Health primary care physician & gender-health specialist
Mount Sinai Internal Medicine residency (NYC)
Research experience in gender-affirming hormone therapy safety
I am an internal medicine physician - I went to medical school in Kentucky, completed my Internal Medicine residency at Mount Sinai in New York City, and then came out to LA where I worked as a primary care doctor, a gender-health specialist, and an educator teaching at UCLA School of Medicine.
As first author for multiple research papers, including two studies looking at the metabolic safety of gender-affirming hormone therapy, trans healthcare has been an emphasis throughout my medical career.
Although institutions such as academic medical centers, insurance groups, and government policy makers create vast networks and systems, they often look at health at the population level.
So in addition to working with those systems, as needed, I also created AHM, initially as a Direct Care Model, and expanding to In-Network insurance plans.
During my time practicing medicine, I have worked with over a thousand transgender and gender-diverse people and I have now created a private, dedicated space to helping individuals with initiation and maintenance of hormone therapy. I work from the lens of an adult medicine specialist - how these hormones affect the entire body - and with ample time for visits, allowing for emotional space.
