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Dr. Ahmed Omer Farooq MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
219 PALERMO PL VENICE FL, 34285About
Dr. Ahmed Farooq is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Venice, FL. Dr. Farooq 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
Dow Med College University Of Karachi Pakistan 1990
Dow Med College University Of Karachi Pakistan Medical
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 2007
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Professional Memberships
- Member American College of Physicians
- Member American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine
- Member International Society of Travel Medicine
- Member Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Member American Medical Association
Fellowships
- Pitt County MemorialHospital, Bordy School of Medi, Infectious Diseases, NC, USA 2006
- INFECTIOUS DISEASE, BRODY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, NC 2004
- Infectious Diseases - Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
- (Infectious Disease), BRODY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, NC 2004
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