Dr. Elmer E. Huerta MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
110 Irving St Nw Suite 2a38 Washington DC, 20010About
Dr. Elmer Huerta is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Huerta specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Universidad Nacional Mayor De San Marcos MD
National Higher University of San Marcos / Academy of Human Medicine 1981
National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, M.D.
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Facultad de Medicina San Fernando 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Communicating health risk to ethnic groups: reaching Hispanics as a case study.
- Patient and provider priorities for cancer prevention and control: a qualitative study in Mid-Atlantic Latinos.
- Cancer statistics for Hispanics, 2003: good news, bad news, and the need for a health system paradigm change.
- Brief report: if you build it, they will come: methods for recruiting Latinos into cancer research.
- Latin American Cancer Research Coalition. Community primary care/academic partnership model for cancer control.
- Are health-care relationships important for mammography adherence in Latinas?
- 'The worst thing about hospice is that they talk about death': contrasting hospice decisions and experience among immigrant Central and South American Latinos with US-born White, non-Latino cancer caregivers.
- Information channels associated with awareness of human papillomavirus infections and vaccination among Latino immigrants from safety net clinics.
- Internet access and online cancer information seeking among Latino immigrants from safety net clinics.
- Cancer prevention in the 21st century: the Preventorium concept.
- Community involvement in assessing health needs of immigrant Salvadoreans living in Washington, D.C. area.
Fellowships
- Johns Hopkins Hospital 1988
- National Cancer Institute 1994
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