Dr. Michael B Edmond M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
200 HAWKINS DR IOWA CITY IA, 52242About
Dr. Michael Edmond is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Richmond, VA. Dr. Edmond 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
Wv Univ Sch of Med, Morgantown Wv 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a large urban hospital over a 5-year period.
- Epidemiology of bacteriuria caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci--a retrospective study.
- Preventing nosocomial infections from gastrointestinal endoscopy.
- Managing antibiotic resistance.
- The impact of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections.
- Antifungal antibiotics and breakthrough bacteremias.
- Severe sepsis-national estimates.
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in adult patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection due to Staphylococcus aureus.
- Vancomycin susceptibility of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates
- Current trends in the epidemiology of nosocomial bloodstream infections in patients with hematological malignancies and solid neoplasms in hospitals in the United States.
- Managing SARS amidst uncertainty.
- Nosocomial bloodstream infections in pediatric patients in United States hospitals: epidemiology, clinical features and susceptibilities.
- Listening to SARS: lessons for infection control.
- Nosocomial bloodstream infections in US hospitals: analysis of 24,179 cases from a prospective nationwide surveillance study.
- Predicting hospital rates of fluoroquinolone-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa from fluoroquinolone use in US hospitals and their surrounding communities.
Awards
- 1988 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America 1994 SHEA Trainee Award
- VCU Department of Internal Medicine 2000 Five-Year Teaching Award
- American College of Physicians, VA Chapter 2003 Young Internist of the Year Award
- 2011 America's Top Doctors
Fellowships
- Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA USA 1992
- Hospital Epidemiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA USA 1994
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