Dr. Joel M. Palefsky MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1600 Divisadero St San Francisco CA, 94115Rating
5/5
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Dr. Joel Palefsky is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Palefsky 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
McGill University Faculty of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in homosexual and bisexual HIV-positive men.
- Regulation of Epstein-Barr virus promoters in oral epithelial cells and lymphocytes.
- Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions: relation to HIV and human papillomavirus infection.
- Human immunodeficiency virus-positive individuals with oral hairy leukoplakia are able to mount cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to Epstein-Barr virus.
- Cost-effectiveness of screening for anal squamous intraepithelial lesions and anal cancer in human immunodeficiency virus-negative homosexual and bisexual men.
- Type I collagen degradation by invasive oral squamous cell carcinoma.
- Integrin expression in oral hairy leukoplakia and normal tongue epithelium.
- Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in human immunodeficiency virus-positive men and women.
- Human papillomavirus-related tumors.
- Prevalence and risk factors for anal human papillomavirus infection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and high-risk HIV-negative women.
- Detection of genetic changes in anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) of HIV-positive and HIV-negative men.
- High prevalence of anal squamous intraepithelial lesions and squamous-cell carcinoma in men who have sex with men as seen in a surgical practice.
- Prevalence and risk factors for anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in women.
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