Dr. Karen T Tashima MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
164 Summit Ave Fain Bldg. , Suite E Providence RI, 02906About
Dr. Karen Tashima is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Tashima 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
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1988
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Changes in body habitus and serum lipid abnormalities in HIV-positive women on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
- Efavirenz plus zidovudine and lamivudine, efavirenz plus indinavir, and indinavir plus zidovudine and lamivudine in the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults. Study 006 Team.
- Sustained responses to dual nucleoside therapy in women.
- Diagnosis of acute HIV infection: it's time to get moving!
- Plateau in body habitus changes and serum lipid abnormalities in HIV-positive women on highly active antiretroviral therapy: a 3.5-year study.
- Response to lamivudine-zidovudine plus abacavir twice daily in antiretroviral-naive, incarcerated patients with HIV infection taking directly observed treatment.
- Efficacy of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the prevention of bacterial infections in a randomized prophylaxis trial of patients with advanced HIV infection.
- Peginterferon plus ribavirin for hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients.
- Abacavir, efavirenz, didanosine, with or without hydroxyurea, in HIV-infected adults failing initial nucleoside/protease inhibitor-containing regimens.
- Plasma and cerebrospinal pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in subjects taking lopinavir/ritonavir.
- Once-daily therapies for the treatment of HIV infection.
- Antiretroviral medication considerations for individuals coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus.
- Facial emotion recognition impairments in individuals with HIV.
- Plasma cytokine concentrations associated with HIV/hepatitis C coinfection are related to attention, executive and psychomotor functioning.
- Incident hepatitis C virus infection among US HIV-infected men enrolled in clinical trials.
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