-Dr. Hernandez-Carretero received a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Azusa Pacific University starting August 2019
-Mentees Courtney Smith (Brigham Young University) and Emily Franco (Alta Loma High School) presented their posters at City of Hope's Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute Research Symposium and Eugene & Ruth Roberts Summer Research Symposium, respectively
-Mentee Courtney Smith participated as a co-author on a published manuscript entitled, "HDAC1 Overexpression Enhances Beta-cell Proliferation by Downregulating Cdkn1b/p27."
-Dr. Hernandez-Carretero was selected for a position on the Early Career Reviewer Board (2018-19) for Endocrinology.
-Dr. Hernandez-Carretero completed her NIH IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellowship program and started a new Staff Scientist Position at City of Hope (Duarte, CA) in the Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute
-Dr. Hernandez-Carretero and Dr. Sergio Ita (SD IRACDA fellows) chaired a session on "Health Disparities in Disease" at the National SACNAS conference in Salt Lake City, Utah (News Article)
-Mentee Ivette Gonzalez (San Diego State University) received an award for her poster presentation at the SACNAS conference.