Dr Fernandes completed her under- and post-graduate training at Goa Medical College, Goa and did a fellowship in Cornea and Anterior Segment at LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Hyderabad in 2001. She completed a post doctoral fellowship in Ocular Surface Immunology, under the mentorship of Professor Reza Dana at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston in 2015.

Dr Fernandes completed her under- and post-graduate training at Goa Medical College, Goa and did a fellowship in Cornea and Anterior Segment at LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Hyderabad in 2001. She completed a post doctoral fellowship in Ocular Surface Immunology, under the mentorship of Professor Reza Dana at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston in 2015. She has been the director of LVPEI, GMR Varalakshmi campus at Visakhapatnam from 2008 to 2021 as well as the Medical Director of Mohsin Eye Bank.

She currently is a Network Director of Finance and Accounts and heads the L V Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad. She is in charge of Green LVPEI the sustainability program for the organization. Her main foci of interests are corneal transplantation in children, management of infectious diseases of the cornea and ocular surface disorders. Besides this she does cataract and refractive surgery. In addition to clinical service, her research work has led to publications in international and national peer reviewed literature and she has presented several papers in India and abroad.