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M. Licitra, M.D.
Born in Rome, Italy, graduated from University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL; received his Medical Degree from University of Florida
– Gainesville; received his Infectious Disease training from
Emory University, Atlanta, GA;and served active duty in the US Navy
and Navy Reserve. He has been practicing medicine in the Orlando
Area since 1988.
However, one look at Dr. Licitra’s medical credentials, and
you know you’ve come to the right facility for travel-health
consultation and protection. Dr. Licitra, a Diplomat of the American
Board of Internal Medicine & Infectious Disease, is presently
Chief of Medicine, Chairman of the Infection Control Committee,
Chief of Subsection (infectious Disease) and Infectious Disease
Teaching Attending Physician of the Orlando Regional Healthcare
System. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease
at University of Florida – Gainesville; Clinical Asst. Professor
at Florida State University School of Medicine (Orlando Campus)
and is Medical Director and Founder of both the Outpatient Antibiotic
Therapy Infusion Program and TravelHealth (At Florida Infectious
Disease Group).
He is the GeoSentinal Medical Director of the Orlando Site of the
CDC Emerging Infections Surveillance Project as well as a member
of the International Society of Travel Medicine, the Infectious
Disease Society of America, and the American Society of Tropical
Medicine.
Dr. Licitra has been published in the Journal of Infectious Disease,
Annals of Neurology, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, the
Journal of Clincal Microbiology .
Maria del Mar Rodriguez, M.D.
Maria del Mar Rodriguez was born in Spain, but raised in Puerto Rico. She attended the University
of Puerto Rico and completed her medical training at the Universidad Central del Caribe School of
Medicine in Puerto Rico. After Internal Medicine Residency at SUNY, Stony Brook, and an Infectious
Disease Fellowship at the University of Rochester, also in New York, she served as Chairwoman of the
Infectious Control Committee at Horton Medical Center in Middletown, New York. She has been an asset
to our practice since 2000.
Dr. Rodriquez speaks fluent English and Spanish, and is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of
America. She has been published in IDSA.
Antonio Crespo, M.D.
Dr. Antonio Crespo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Jose Maria Vargas
School of Medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. He served as a rural physician
and an emergency medicine resident in Venezuela before returning to Philadelphia for his internal
medicine residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he served as Cheif Medical Resident for
one year. After completing his infectious disease training at Temple University Hospital, where he was
also a clinical instructor, he joined our group in 2002.
Dr. Crespo is now a clinical instructor for Florida State University's College of Medicine (Orlando
campus) and a member of several medical societies in the United States as well as Venezuela. He has been
widely published and has presented at a number of annual medical conferences. He has an enthusiastic
interest in Travel Medicine and speaks fluent Spanish and English.
Philip Yeon, M.D.
Dr. Philip Yeon is of Korean decent, yet was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he completed his
undergraduate and medical degrees at the Escola Paulista de Medicina. After internal medicine training
at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, he completed Infectious Disease fellowships at
Hospital Sao Paulo as well as Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans. Then Dr. Yeon earned a Master of
Public Health at Tulane while serving as Clinical Director at the Louisiana State Tuberculosis Clinic. He
then served as an Infectious Disease consultant and Clinical Director of the St. Croix STD/TB/HIV Program
on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix. He joined our practice in 2004 and specailizes in Tropical Medicine
in addition to Infectious Disease. Dr. Yeon speaks fluent English and Portuguese, as well as basic Spanish
Korean.
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