Dr. Robert Francis Defraites MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
4301 Jones Bridge Rd Attn: Dept Pmb Bethesda MD, 20814About
Robert Defraites is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Defraites specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Defraites participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hepatitis A in the US Army: epidemiology and vaccine development.
- Attendance and referral patterns in a health promotion program for soldiers.
- Further experience with Japanese encephalitis vaccine.
- Preparing military installations for pandemic influenza through tabletop exercises.
- Department of Defense position on patient movement during influenza A (H1N1) pandemic: implications for actions now.
- Seasonal influenza vaccine and protection against pandemic (H1N1) 2009-associated illness among US military personnel.
- A roundtable discussion on emerging infectious diseases--risks to U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center: enhancing the Military Health
- Malaria and other vector-borne infection surveillance in the U.S. Department of
- Assessing potentially hazardous environmental exposures among military populations: 2010 symposium and workshop summary and conclusions.
- Public health practice is not research.
- Characterizing the relationship between tick bites and Lyme disease in active component U.S. Armed Forces in the eastern United States.
- DoD-Supported Overseas Training Rotations in Tropical Medicine and Global Health, 2000-2015.
- Outcomes From U.S. Military-Supported Overseas Training Rotations in Tropical Medicine and Global Health, 2006-2015.
- Diarrheal disease among military personnel during Operation Restore Hope, Somalia, 1992-1993.
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