Dr. Alain H Litwin MD, MPH
Addiction Medicine Specialist | Addiction Medicine
Mmc - Dept. Of Medicine 111 East 210th Stree Bronx NY, 10467About
With funding from NIH, CDC, AHRQ, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New York State Department of Health, New York City Department of Health, and industry, Dr. Alain Litwin's research is focused on d ...
Education and Training
Tulane University of Louisiana 1997
Tulane University School of Medicine 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Integrating services for injection drug users infected with hepatitis C virus with methadone maintenance treatment: challenges and opportunities.
- Student volunteers screen drug users for viral hepatitis.
- Successful integration of hepatitis C evaluation and treatment services with methadone maintenance.
- Hepatitis C testing practices and prevalence in a high-risk urban ambulatory care setting.
- Low rates of hepatitis A and B vaccination in patients with chronic hepatitis C at an urban methadone maintenance program.
- Concurrent group treatment for hepatitis C: implementation and outcomes in a methadone maintenance treatment program.
- Models of care for the management of hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs: one size does not fit all.
- Physician nonadherence with a hepatitis C screening program.
- Reducing barriers to hepatitis C treatment among drug users: an integrated hepatitis C peer education and support program.
- Hepatitis infection in the treatment of opioid dependence and abuse.
- The common sense model applied to hepatitis C: a qualitative analysis of the
- Excluding people who use drugs or alcohol from access to hepatitis C treatments – Is this fair, given the available data?
- A Birth-cohort testing intervention identified hepatitis c virus infection among patients with few identified risks: a cross-sectional study.
- No Differences in Achieving Hepatitis C Virus Care Milestones Between Patients Identified by Birth Cohort or Risk-Based Screening.
Treatments
- Hepatitis
- Fever
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Pneumonia
- Hives
- Hepatitis C
- Pain
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