Dr. Karen Anne Holbrook MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
101 Grove St Suite 204 San Francisco CA, 94102About
Dr. Karen Holbrook is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Holbrook 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
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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