Dr. Roberto P Benzo MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Roberto Benzo practices Pulmonology in Rochester, MN. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Benzo manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario Facultad de Medicina 1986
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine 1998
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pulmonary rehabilitation in lung cancer: a scientific opportunity.
- Physical activity, health status and risk of hospitalization in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- The accuracy and efficiency of electronic screening for recruitment into a clinical trial on COPD.
- How many steps are enough to avoid severe physical inactivity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
- Screening for severe physical inactivity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the value of simple measures and the validation of two physical activity questionnaires.
- Correlations between gait speed, 6-minute walk distance, physical activity, and self-efficacy in patients with severe chronic lung disease.
- Mindfulness and motivational interviewing: two candidate methods for promoting self-management.
- Measuring gait speed in the out-patient clinic: methodology and feasibility.
- Beyond pain in fibromyalgia: insights into the symptom of fatigue.
- Psychological Resilience, Affective Mechanisms and Symptom Burden in a Tertiary-care Sample of Patients with Fibromyalgia.
- Determinants of gait speed in COPD.
- Predicting 1-year mortality rate for patients admitted with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to an intensive care unit: an opportunity for palliative care.
- OMERACT-based fibromyalgia symptom subgroups: an exploratory cluster analysis.
- The spectrum of psychocognitive morbidity in the critically ill: a review of the literature and call for improvement.
- Executive Function, Survival, and Hospitalization in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Longitudinal Analysis of the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT).
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