Dr. Lin Chen MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
330 Mount Auburn St South 2 Cambridge MA, 02138About
Dr. Lin Chen is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Chen 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
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1986
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1986
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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