Dr. Joseph I Harwell M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
164 Summit Ave Fain Bldg. , Suite E Providence RI, 02906About
Dr. Joseph Harwell is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Harwell 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
Univ of Nc At Chapel Hill Sch of Med, Chapel Hill Nc 1993
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1999
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD- 1997
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fever, cough and rash in a twelve-year-old traveler.
- The drug-resistant pneumococcus: clinical relevance, therapy, and prevention.
- Multicenter review of protease inhibitors in 89 pregnancies.
- Pediatric septic bursitis: case report of retrocalcaneal infection and review of the literature.
- Neurosyphilis: how do you know, and what do you do?
- Aetiology of meningitis in HIV-infected patients in a referral hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Protease inhibitor use in 233 pregnancies.
- The first reported cases of disseminated histoplasmosis in Cambodia, complicated by multiple opportunistic infections.
- Antiretroviral therapy for children: substantial benefit but limited access.
- Directly observed highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children in Cambodia.
- Opportunistic infections and HIV clinical disease stage among patients presenting for care in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Drug rash, eosinophilia, and systemic symptoms syndrome: Two pediatric cases demonstrating the range of severity in presentation--A case of vancomycin-induced drug hypersensitivity mimicking toxic shock syndrome and a milder case induced by minocycli
- Growth of infants born to HIV-infected women in South Africa according to maternal and infant characteristics.
- Clinical presentation and treatment of transfusion-associated babesiosis in premature infants.
- Prediction of treatment failure using 2010 World Health Organization Guidelines is associated with high misclassification rates and drug resistance among HIV-infected Cambodian children.
Awards
- 2008 Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching
Treatments
- Autoimmune Disorders, Aids/hiv
Fellowships
- Baystate Medical Center, Fellow:Infectious Diseases 1997
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