Dr. Irfana
Consultant - Infectious Diseases
BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, Delhi
Experience: 5+ Years
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About Dr. Irfana
Presently working as Consultant - Infectious Diseases at BLK-Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi
An experienced general physician, Dr. Irfana brings with her an experience of more than 5 years after her post-graduation in Internal Medicine. She further went on to specialise in Infectious Diseases and has gained vast knowledge, skills, and experience in managing various types of complicated infections. She has presented her research work in various national and international conferences and was awarded grants for the same. She has 4 chapters to her credit and has authored articles for newsletters in various journals.
Previous Experience:
- Clinical Associate, Internal Medicine, Medanta Hospital, Gurugram
- Fellow, Infectious Diseases at P. D. Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai
- MBBS
- DNB (Internal Medicine)
- FNB (Infectious Diseases)
- Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDS), India
- European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Areas of Interest:
- Tropical Fevers (Malaria, Dengue, Typhoid, Leptospirosis, Rickettsial Fever etc.), Influenza, Fever of unknown origin
- COVID-19 infection, post-COVID-19 infective complications, vaccination advice
- Community infections: respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary tract, ear infections, meningitis, endocarditis etc.
- Tuberculosis: Drug-resistant TB, TB meningitis
- HIV
- Orthopaedic & Spine Infections: including prosthetic joint and implant-associated Infections
- Health-care associated & Drug-resistant Infections:
- Infections in special populations: cancer patients, post bone marrow transplant and solid organ transplant recipients, immunosuppressed patients
- Fungal infections
- Adult Immunisation: Immunisation for students traveling to foreign universities, vaccinations for special populations (e.g. post-transplant, cancer patients, immunosuppressed patients, diabetics, patients with chronic lung, liver, kidney disease)
- Antimicrobial stewardship and Infection Control