
Dr. Glenn A. Mackay
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5701 State Ave Suite 100 Kansas City KS, 66102About
Dr. Glenn Mackay is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Kansas City, KS. Dr. Mackay 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
Med Univ of Sc Coll of Med, Charleston Sc 1995
Board Certification
infectious disease medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Fellowships
- University of Kansas Medical Center infectious disease medicine 2001
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Practice At 5701 State Ave Suite 100
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Get to know Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr. Glenn A. Mackay, who serves patients in Shawnee, Kansas.
Dr. Mackay is a board-certified infectious disease physician currently practicing through KC Infectious Disease Consultants LLC in Shawnee, Kansas. He remains affiliated with Olathe Health, Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Lenexa, Kansas, Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas, and AdventHealth Shawnee Mission in Overland Park, Kansas.
Dr. Mackay earned his medical degree in 1995 at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia (1998). Moreover, he conducted his infectious disease medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas (2001).
Subsequent to the completion of his training, Dr. Mackay acquired his board certification in internal medicine and the subspecialty of infectious disease medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine. The American Board of Internal Medicine is a 501 nonprofit, self-appointed physician-evaluation organization that certifies physicians practicing internal medicine and its subspecialties.
Infectious disease is a medical specialty dealing with prevention, the diagnosis, and treatment of infections. Infectious disease specialists provide long-term care to people with diseases that are lifelong or last for more than one year. They employ a variety of antimicrobial agents to help treat infections.
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