Dr. Bruce David Walker MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
149 13th St Room 5212d Charlestown MA, 02129About
Dr. Bruce Walker is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlestown, MA. Dr. Walker 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Awards
- 2002 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1999 Doris Duke Distinguised Scientist
- 1994 NIH MERIT AWARD
- 1993 American Society For Clinical Investigation
- 2009 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Treatments
- Infections, Aids/hiv
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