Robert Martin Lester M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
5795 Lausanne Drive Reno NV, 89511About
Dr. Robert Lester is a critical care surgeon practicing in Reno, NV. Dr. Lester 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. Lester 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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