Dr. Josiah D Rich MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1125 N MAIN ST PROVIDENCE RI, 02904About
Dr. Josiah Rich is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Rich 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
Univ Of Ma Med Sch- Worcester Ma 1987
University of Massachusetts / Worcester Campus 1987
University Of Massachusetts Medical School 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1994
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prophylactic panic.
- HIV seroprevalence of adult males incarcerated for a sexual offense in Rhode Island, 1994-1999.
- Treating prisoners with HIV/AIDS: the importance of early identification, effective treatment, and community follow-up.
- Medical complications of anabolic steroids.
- Treatment of chronic hepatitis C in a state correctional facility.
- Would you consider prescribing syringes to injection drug users? Addiction Medicine Conference Survey.
- Drug use patterns over time among HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative women: the HER study experience.
- Prescribing syringes to injection drug users: what the family physician should know.
- Hepatitis B vaccination of incarcerated women: a pilot program.
- Syringe access for the prevention of blood borne infections among injection drug users.
- Confined treatment continued.
- Syringe access for injection drug users in Rhode Island.
- A syringe prescription program to prevent infectious disease and improve health of injection drug users.
- Prescribing syringes to injection drug users with HIV: an important clinical and public health tool.
- Evaluation of possible effects of continued drug use on HIV progression among women.
Clinical Trials
Awards
- Chair Medical Faculty Executive Committee
Fellowships
- Harvard Med Schl Combined Prgm, Fellow:Infectious Diseases 1991
- Brigham & Women's Hospital, Fellow:Hiv/Aids 1991
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