Dr. Michael Thomas o. Stein M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
9040 JACKSON AVE TACOMA WA, 98431About
Dr. Michael Stein is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Vancouver, WA. Dr. Stein 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
Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences,Bethesda, Md, United States Medicine
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Fellowships
- U/MD Prog, Baltimore, MD United States,, Infectious Diseases 2004
- U/MD Prog, Baltimore, MD United States, Infectious Diseases 2006
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