Dr. Douglas Salvador MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
22 Bramhall St Portland ME, 04102About
Dr. Douglas Salvador is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Portland, ME. Dr. Salvador 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
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,Baltimore, Md, United States MD 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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