Dr. George M. Lyon M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
550 Peachtree St NE Floor 7 Atlanta Georgia, 30308About
George M. Lyon III, MD, is a leading Infectious Disease Specialist currently serving patients at Emory Clinic and Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia. Furthermore, he is Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine faculty. Throughout his fourteen years of practice, Dr. Lyon III has accrued extensive expertise in Lyme disease and all facets of infectious disease medicine. After earning his medical degree in 1994 at Marshall University School of Medicine, he completed his internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and his fellowship at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Lyon III is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is board certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. Additionally, in order to stay up to date on all medical advancements in his field, he maintains a professional membership with the American Medical Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Society of Transplantation, and the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation.
Education and Training
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine 1994
Board Certification
Infectious Disease (Internal Medicine)
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adriamycin in the treatment of childhood acute leukemia. A Southwest Oncology Group study.
- Adriamycin in the treatment of childhood solid tumors. A Southwest Oncology Group study.
- Radiation injuries resulting from nuclear explosion and fallout.
- SERUM ELECTROPHORETIC PATTERNS IN THE GERIATRIC PATIENT.
- Veterans Administration Radioisotope Conference.
- Radiological aspects of civil defense.
- Medical problems in atomic exposure.
- The radioisotopes in medicine.
- Radioisotopes in medicine.
- The radioisotopes in medicine.
- Effects of atom bomb radiation on the human body.
- Medical aspects of atomic energy.
- Atomic energy and your future health.
- Atomic energy and your future health.
- Cytomegalovirus prostatitis in a heart transplant recipient.
Clinical Trials
Fellowships
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Professional Society Memberships
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Society of Transplantation, The Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
Articles and Publications
- 80 Articles, 2 Book Chapters
What do you attribute your success to?
- Dedication, education, patient care, research and technology.
Hobbies / Sports
- Family, Friends, Traveling, History, Reading, Sports, Outdoors
Favorite professional publications
- All major medical/infectious disease publications
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