Dr. Joel Thorp Katz MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
75 Francis St Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115Rating
5/5
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Dr. Joel Katz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Katz specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1991
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1991
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The quality of terminal care in residential and nursing homes.
- Effect of cytochrome b5 on the size, density, and permeability of phosphatidylcholine vesicles.
- Careers of graduates of combined emergency medicine/internal medicine programs.
- Self-association of cytochrome b5 in aqueous solution. Gel filtration and ultracentirfugational studies.
- Global health equity.
- Effect of a physical examination teaching program on the behavior of medical residents.
- Global health equity as the focus of graduate medical education.
- Neurocysticercosis.
- Improving the quality of intern documentation through structured feedback.
- Fungal brain infections.
- Formal art observation training improves medical students' visual diagnostic skills.
- Human herpesvirus 6 encephalitis.
- Perspective: creating an ethical workplace: reverberations of resident work hours reform.
- Safely and rationally aligning goals--a plea for flexibility.
- Clinical problem-solving. A fragile balance.
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