Dr. Wallace Kemper Alston MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
111 Colchester Ave Fletcher Allen Healt Burlington VT, 05401About
Dr. Wallace Alston is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Burlington, VT. Dr. Alston 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
New York Med Coll- Valhalla Ny 1987
New York Medical College 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Service delivery for patients with HIV in a rural state: the Vermont model.
- Cefazolin dosing protocol for patients receiving long-term hemodialysis.
- Current immunizations for travel.
- Increase in the rate of nosocomial Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea during shortages of piperacillin-tazobactam and piperacillin.
- Serum mannose-binding lectin deficiency is associated with cryptosporidiosis in young Haitian children.
- Childhood cryptosporidiosis is associated with a persistent systemic inflammatory response.
- Use of longitudinal surveillance data to assess the effectiveness of infection control in critical care.
- The Vermont model for rural HIV care delivery: eleven years of outcome data comparing urban and rural clinics.
- Pitfalls of public reporting.
- The complexity, relative value, and financial worth of curbside consultations in an academic infectious diseases unit.
- A longitudinal index of multidrug-resistant organisms at an academic medical center reveals true declines in incidence.
- A Retrospective Study on the Protective Effects of Topical Vancomycin in Patients Undergoing Multilevel Spinal Fusion.
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