Dr. Sonya Sunhi Shin MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
516 East Nizhoni Blvd. Gallup NM, 87301About
Dr. Sonya Shin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Gallup, NM. Dr. Shin 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 Med Sch, Boston Ma 1998
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Community-based therapy for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
- Scale-up of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis laboratory services, Peru.
- Assessing effects of the e-Chasqui laboratory information system on accuracy and timeliness of bacteriology results in the Peruvian tuberculosis program.
- Treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Tomsk, Russia: a retrospective cohort study.
- Epidemiology and treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis.
- Validation and abbreviation of an HIV stigma scale in an adult spanish-speaking population in urban Peru.
- Using the e-Chasqui, web-based information system, to determine laboratory guidelines and data available to clinical staff.
- Integration of alcohol use disorders identification and management in the tuberculosis programme in Tomsk Oblast, Russia.
- Effect of directly observed therapy for highly active antiretroviral therapy on virologic, immunologic, and adherence outcomes: a meta-analysis and systematic review.
- Development of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis during multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment.
- Food insufficiency is a risk factor for suboptimal antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-infected adults in urban Peru.
- Targeted drug-resistance testing strategy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
- Use of spatial information to predict multidrug resistance in tuberculosis patients, Peru.
- Risk factors for in-hospital mortality among children with tuberculosis: the 25-year experience in Peru.
- Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treatment regimens and patient
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