Dr. Richard Andrew Mayer M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
6699 Alvarado Rd Suite 2308 San Diego CA, 92120About
Dr. Richard Mayer is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Mayer 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1996
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1996
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