Following his time at the University of California, Irvine, Bernardo moved to Peru in 1999 and joined the Foundation for International Education in Neurological Surgery (FIENS) as part of an effort to establish skull base surgery programs in hospitals throughout the country."Report of FIENS Activities", Neurosurgery, 1 August 2000, vol. 47 (2), p. 472. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
