Dr. Melba I. Colon-Quintana, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Internist | Infectious Disease
P.O. Box 279 Bayamón PR, 00960About
Dr. Melba Colon-Quintana is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bayamón, PR. Dr. Colon-Quintana 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
Recinto Ciencias Medicas UPR MD 1980
Board Certification
Infectious Disease (Internal Medicine)
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Proffesor of Medicine and Chair Internal Medicine Department, UCCSoM and Hosp Univ R Ruiz Arnau 2015 - 2019
Professional Memberships
- American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America, Sociedad de Enfermedades Infecciosas de PR, Alpha Omega Alpha,
Internships
- Internal Medicine (1983)
Professional Society Memberships
- Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, The American Marketing Association- Puerto Rico
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