Dr. Alejandro Villegas MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
953 49th St Brooklyn NY, 11219About
Dr. Alejandro Villegas is a critical care surgeon practicing in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Villegas specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Villegas has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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