Dr. Cynthia J Whitener MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
500 University Dr Hershey PA, 17033About
Dr. Cynthia Whitener is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Hershey, PA. Dr. Whitener 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 1988
West Virginia University School of Medicine 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- First year of mandatory reporting of healthcare-associated infections, Pennsylvania: an infection control-chart abstractor collaboration.
- Attitudes of healthcare workers and patients toward individualized hand hygiene reminders.
- Erythromycin ototoxicity: a call to heighten recognition.
- Molecular and epidemiologic characteristics of linezolid-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci at a tertiary care hospital.
- Francisella novicida bacteremia after a near-drowning accident.
- Molecular and phenotypic characteristics of healthcare- and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a rural hospital.
- Household risk factors for colonization with multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
- Scedosporium: an unlikely cause of fungal necrotizing fasciitis.
- Photo Quiz. A 59-Year-Old Man With Multiple Liver Lesions, Rash, and Uveitis.
- Histogenesis of tubular adenomas in hereditary colonic adenomatous polyposis.
- Epinephrine-induced renin secretion is not initiated by cardiac adrenoceptors.
Treatments
- Aids/hiv
Fellowships
- Infectious Disease, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center 1994
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