Dr. Joseph R Difranza M.D.
Family Practitioner
55 Lake Ave N Department Of Family Worcester MA, 01655About
Dr. Joseph Difranza is a family practitioner practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Difranza specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Difranza possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
University of Massachusetts / Worcester Campus 1981
University Of Massachusetts Medical School 1981
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- State and federal revenues from tobacco consumed by minors.
- Are the federal and state governments complying with the Synar Amendment?
- A comparison of the advertising and accessibility of cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and loose tobacco.
- Youth access: the baby and the bath water.
- World's best practice in tobacco control.
- State and federal compliance with the Synar amendment: federal fiscal year 1997.
- Measuring statewide merchant compliance with tobacco minimum age laws: the Massachusetts experience.
- Is the standard compliance check protocol a valid measure of the accessibility of tobacco to underage smokers?
- Sources of tobacco for youths in communities with strong enforcement of youth access laws.
- Is it time to abandon youth access programmes?
- Implications of the autonomy theory of nicotine dependence.
- Tobacco control for clinicians who treat adolescents.
- Symptoms of nicotine dependence and other predictors of student smoking at school: implications for school smoking policy.
- Adolescents' acquisition of cigarettes through noncommercial sources.
Awards
- 2008 AOA
- 2011 Massachusetts Medical Society, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Exc
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Anxiety
- Eczema
- High Cholesterol
- Back Pain
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
Professional Memberships
- Member UMass Memorial Medical Group
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