Dr. Joan Ma M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
622 W 168TH ST NEW YORK NY, 10032About
Dr. Joan Ma is a critical care surgeon practicing in NEW YORK, NY. Dr. Ma 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. Ma 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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