Dr. Tara M Roque MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
8600 Old Georgetown Rd Bethesda MD, 20814About
Dr. Tara Roque is a critical care surgeon practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Roque specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Roque has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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Georgetown University School of Medicine 1998
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