Dr. Jennifer J Schimmel MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
330 Main Street 3rd Floor, Suite C&D Springfield MA, 01199About
Dr. Jennifer Schimmel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Springfield, MA. Dr. Schimmel 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
University of Connecticut School of Medicine 2001
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
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- Risk factors for deep surgical site infections after spinal fusion.
- Managing community-acquired pneumonia during flu season.
- Bicruciate substituting design does not improve maximal flexion in total knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial.
- Moderate clinical improvement after revision arthroplasty of the severely stiff knee.
- Spinal fusion limits upper body range of motion during gait without inducing compensatory mechanisms in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients.
- Debridement, antibiotics and implant retention in early periprosthetic joint infection after primary total hip arthroplasty : 88 percent survival after two years follow-up.
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