Dr. Jay Franklin Dobkin M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
622 W 168th St New York NY, 10032About
Dr. Jay Dobkin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Dobkin 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
Harvard Medical School 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1975
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1982
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- AIDS, ethics, and ICUs.
- Preventing pneumococcal disease.
- Vitamin D deficiency in HIV-infected postmenopausal Hispanic and African-American women.
- Characterizing medical providers for jail inmates in New York State.
- Geographic differences in digoxin inactivation, a metabolic activity of the human anaerobic gut flora.
- Interethnic variation in the metabolic inactivation of digoxin by the gut flora.
- Nonspecificity of ring enhancement in "medically cured" brain abscess.
- Treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in HIV infection.
- Reduction in tuberculin skin-test conversions among medical house staff associated with improved tuberculosis infection control practices.
Awards
- New York Super Doctors 2011
Fellowships
- Albert Einstein Medical Center
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