Dr. Julie Michelle Akright D.O.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
138 Service Rd A225 Clinical Center East Lansing MI, 48824About
Dr. Julie Akright is an infectious disease specialist practicing in East Lansing, MI. Dr. Akright 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.
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