Dr. Richard P. Wenzel M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1250 E Marshall St Richmond VA, 23298About
Dr. Richard Wenzel is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Richmond, VA. Dr. Wenzel 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
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1965
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Beyond total quality management.
- Epidemiology of bone fractures occurring during hospitalization.
- Total quality management: an epidemiologist's frank perspective.
- Predicting survival of patients with sepsis by use of regression and neural network models.
- Regionalization of tertiary care: impact of safe cardiovascular volumes in Iowa.
- Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: the cost-effectiveness of long-term therapy associated with infectious diseases consultation.
- Wenzel describes Virginia-wide system.
- Statewide data spotlight problems, risks.
- Electronic medical record systems at academic health centers: advantages and implementation issues.
- Elucidating the origins of nosocomial infections with Candida albicans by DNA fingerprinting with the complex probe Ca3.
- Managing antibiotic use--impact of infection control.
- Managed health care: outcomes and update.
- Nosocomial bloodstream infections in United States hospitals: a three-year analysis.
- National epidemiology of mycoses survey (NEMIS): variations in rates of bloodstream infections due to Candida species in seven surgical intensive care units and six neonatal intensive care units.
- Seeking vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
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