Dr. Ryan P Westergaard MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
600 Highland Ave Madison WI, 53792About
Dr. Ryan Westergaard is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Madison, WI. Dr. Westergaard 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
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2004
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Racial/ethnic differences in trust in health care: HIV conspiracy beliefs and vaccine research participation.
- Ethical issues in mHealth research involving persons living with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.
- Barriers and facilitators of hepatitis C screening among people who inject drugs: a multi-city, mixed-methods study.
- Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia with giant cell arteritis and pulmonary mucormycosis.
- Cross-clade simultaneous HIV drug resistance genotyping for reverse transcriptase, protease, and integrase inhibitor mutations by Illumina MiSeq.
- Cutaneous manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus: a clinical update.
- Uptake and Acceptability of Information and Communication Technology in a
- High uptake of naloxone-based overdose prevention training among previously incarcerated syringe-exchange program participants.
- Computerized Tailored Interventions to Enhance Prevention and Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Among People Who Inject Drugs: Protocol for a Randomized Pilot Study.
- Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in Primary Care--A New Era in HIV Prevention.
- Acceptability of Rapid Point-of-Care Hepatitis C Tests Among People Who Inject Drugs and Utilize Syringe-Exchange Programs.
- Performance of Risk-Based and Birth-Cohort Strategies for Identifying Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among People Entering Prison, Wisconsin, 2014.
- The effect of bundling medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction with mHealth: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial.
- Using database linkages to monitor the continuum of care for hepatitis C virus among syringe exchange clients: Experience from a pilot intervention.
- Developing a Patient Navigation Program to Improve Engagement in HIV Medical Care and Viral Suppression: A Demonstration Project Protocol.
Fellowships
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
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