Dr. Timothy James Whitman DO
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Infectious Diseases Department 8901 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda MD, 20889About
Dr. Timothy Whitman is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Whitman 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
Ny Coll Of Osteo Med Of Ny Inst Of Tech- Old Westbury Ny 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Infection control challenges related to war wound infections in the ICU setting.
- Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft
- Genotypic and phenotypic correlations of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-A. calcoaceticus complex strains isolated from patients at the National Naval Medical Center.
- A patient returning from Africa finds a mass imbedded in the skin of her right foot. Tungiasis.
- Photo quiz: A patient with ulcerated nodules on his face.
- Guidelines for the prevention of travel-associated illness in older adults.
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