Dr. Donald M. Poretz M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
3289 Woodburn Rd Suite # 200 Annandale VA, 22003Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Donald Poretz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Annandale, VA. Dr. Poretz 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
Va Commonwealth Univ, Med Coll of Va Sch of Med, Richmond Va 1966
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine 1966
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Outpatient IV therapy program decreases cost for hospitals.
- Home IV programs.
- Editorial response: direct involvement of physicians is vital to outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy for central nervous system infections.
- Intracranial suppuration secondary to trauma. Infection with Nocardia asteroides.
- Outpatient management of infectious diseases.
- Outcomes of a trial of HIV-1 immunogen in patients with HIV infection.
- Chronic meningococcemia.
- It's Not Just the Hospital Anymore.
- Home intravenous antibiotic therapy.
- Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy.
- Clarification of the Agreement between the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Attorney General of Connecticut.
- High tech comes home.
- The infusion center: a model for outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy.
- Home management of antibiotic therapy.
- Ciprofloxacin therapy of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other resistant bacteria.
Awards
- 2011 Washington, DC-Baltimore-Northern Virginia Super Doctors
Treatments
- Infections
Dr. Donald M. Poretz M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 3289 Woodburn Rd Suite # 200
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