Dr. Robert Wesley Farr MD
Aerospace Medicine Specialist | Aerospace Medicine
3100 MACCORKLE AVE SE STE 902 CHARLESTON WV, 25304About
Dr. Robert Farr is an aerospace medicine specialist practicing in Pensacola, FL. Dr. Farr provides primary care services for professionals like pilots and crewmembers who work and travel in the air or space. As an aerospace medicine specialist, Dr. Farr discovers, manages and prevents health issues that result from traveling in extreme environments. These physicians are particularly trained in diseases that may arise from air travel, and work to keep airmen healthy and safe.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alternative treatment for head pediculosis in confined environments and space travel.
- Cryptococcal olecranon bursitis in cirrhosis.
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia due to corticosteroids.
- trans-activation of viral enhancers including long terminal repeat of the human immunodeficiency virus by the hepatitis B virus X protein.
- Meningococcal disease.
- Dobutamine for myocardial depression in meningococcemia.
- Tennis elbow in aviators.
- Leptospirosis.
- Incidence of adenovirus and respiratory syncytial virus in chronic otitis media with effusion using the polymerase chain reaction.
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
- Inactivation of human immunodeficiency virus by a medical waste disposal process using chlorine dioxide.
- Prosthetic hip infection and bacteremia due to Campylobacter jejuni in a patient with AIDS.
- Parvovirus B19 outbreak in a rehabilitation hospital.
- Antemortem diagnosis of human rabies.
- JC virus: a source of confusion.
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