Joel W Ferree MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1506 Alice St Waycross GA, 31501Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Joel Ferree is a cardiologist practicing in Waycross, GA. Dr. Ferree specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Ferree also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Loma Linda University School of Medicine 1976
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rehabilitating the adult cardiac.
- Cardiovascular diseases and public health.
- Symposium on community health services. IV. An unmet community health need.
- The physician and the voluntary health agency: the American Heart Association.
- Public health in the cardiovascular disease field.
- Public Health Education Planning: Public Health Films.
- Agency Membership and the Voluntary Agencies.
- Some effects of health council programs on basic health education.
- Health councils and their potentialities.
- The venereal disease heritage of World War II; a Navy view of demobilization and postwar venereal disease and social hygiene problems.
- Dr. Wilfred D. David succeeds Dr. John W. Ferree as director of NSPB.
- Eye safety of children and adults.
- The blind population: 1967-1977.
- Clinical and angiographic findings in a patient with vasospasm in an anomalous coronary artery.
Treatments
- High Cholesterol
- Angina
- Heart Disease
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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1900 TEBEAU STREET WAYCROSS GA 31501BACON COUNTY HOSPITALl
302 SOUTH WAYNE STREET ALMA GA 31510COFFEE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERl
1101 OCILLA ROAD DOUGLAS GA 31533IRWIN COUNTY HOSPITALl
710 N IRWIN AVENUE OCILLA GA 31774BACON COUNTY HOSPITALl
302 SOUTH WAYNE STREET ALMA GA 31510