Dr. Scott M. Hammer M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
622 W 168th St New York NY, 10032Rating
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Dr. Scott Hammer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Hammer 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- HIV-1 genotype and phenotype correlate with virological response to abacavir, amprenavir and efavirenz in treatment-experienced patients.
- Detection of replication-competent human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in
- Increasing choices for HIV therapy.
- Antiretroviral guidelines for resource-limited settings: the WHO's public health approach.
- Cornell/amfAR Symposium. Strategies of antiretroviral therapy.
- Effect of coadministration of nelfinavir, indinavir, and saquinavir on the pharmacokinetics of amprenavir.
- Population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of efavirenz, nelfinavir, and indinavir: Adult AIDS Clinical Trial Group Study 398.
- HIV Drug Resistance: Implications for Management.
- Advances in antiretroviral therapy.
- What constitutes efficacy for a human immunodeficiency virus vaccine that ameliorates viremia: issues involving surrogate end points in phase 3 trials.
- Advances in antiretroviral therapy. Highlights of the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, February 8-11, 2004, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Combination therapy with polymyxin B for the treatment of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative respiratory tract infections.
- Impact of indinavir on the quality of life in patients with advanced HIV infection treated with zidovudine and lamivudine.
- Advances in antiretroviral therapy.
- Single-dose nevirapine and drug resistance: the more you look, the more you find.
Awards
- 2010-2012 New York Super Doctors
- 2008 Ewig Clinical Teaching Award
Treatments
- Aids/hiv
Fellowships
- Mass General Hospital, Fellow:Infectious Disease 1977
Experience & Accolades
- MemberChief, Division of Infectious Diseases
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