Dr. Karen Lee Smith MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2344 Old Sonoma Rd Building G Napa CA, 94559About
Dr. Karen Smith is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Napa, CA. Dr. Smith 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
Stanford University School of Medicine 1992
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