Dr. Yonhee Cha MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
10 Union Square East Suite 3J New York NY, 10003About
Dr. Yonhee Cha is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New Hyde Park, NY. Dr. Cha 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
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1999
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- 2003
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 2013
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Fellowships
- Infectious Disease, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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