RicardoArgemiro FonsecaFrancoMD

Infectious Disease • Birmingham, AL

Assistant Professor

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Office
908 20th St S
Birmingham, AL 35205
Phone(205) 934-5191
Fax(205) 934-5155
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Education & Training

University of Alabama Medical CenterFellowship, Infectious Disease, 2010 - 2013
Jackson Memorial Hospital - Jackson Health SystemResidency, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2010
Federal University of Minas GeraisClass of 2002

Certifications & Licensure

WI State Medical License 2015 - 2017
FL State Medical License 2014 - 2017
AL State Medical License 2010 - 2020
IL State Medical License 2004 - 2017
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease

Clinical Trials

Randomized, Open-label Phase II Trial to Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of MVA-BN Smallpox Vaccine When Increasing the Number of Injections Compared to the Standard Regimen in Immunocompromised Subjects With HIV Infection Start of enrollment: 2014 Apr 01Peck, A.,Brown, A.,Walker, D.,Overton, E.T.,Quinn, J.,Franz, J.A.,Spitz, T.,Sauter, W.

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Effectiveness of Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection in Routine Clinical Care: A Multicenter St...
Kim, H. N.,Nance, R. M.,Williams-Nguyen, J. S.,Chris Delaney, J. A.,Crane, H. M.,Cachay, E. R.,Martin, J.,Mathews, W. C.,Chander, G.,Franco, R.,Hurt, C. B.,Geng, E. H....> ;Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Apr 06
Continuum of Care for HCV Among Patients Diagnosed in the Emergency Department Setting.
Anderson, E. S.,Galbraith, J. W.,Deering, L. J.,Pfeil, S. K.,Todorovic, T.,Rodgers, J. B.,Forsythe, J. M.,Franco, R.,Wang, H.,Wang, N. E.,White, D. A.> ;Clin. Infect. Dis.. 2017 Feb 17
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis presenting as a brainstem encephalitis.
Atherton, D. S.,Perez, S. R.,Gundacker, N. D.,Franco, R.,Han, X.> ;Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2016 Feb 24
Emergency Department Screening for Hepatitis C Virus: Geographic Reach and Spatial Clustering in Central Alabama.
Donnelly, J. P.,Franco, R.,Wang, H. E.,Galbraith, J. W.> ;Clin. Infect. Dis.. 2015 Nov 28
Impact of Poor Retention in HIV Medical Care on Hepatitis B Vaccination
Ricardo A. Franco, Ashutosh Tamhane, Edgar Turner Overton> ;Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 2015 Mar 1
Unrecognized chronic hepatitis C virus infection among baby boomers in the emergency department.
Galbraith, J. W.,Franco, R. A.,Donnelly, J. P.,Rodgers, J. B.,Morgan, J. M.,Viles, A. F.,Overton, E. T.,Saag, M. S.,Wang, H. E.> ;Hepatology. 2014 Sep 03
National Estimates of Healthcare Utilization by Individuals with Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States.
Galbraith, J. W.,Donnelly, J. P.,Franco, R.,Overton, T.,Rodgers, J. B.,Wang, H. E.> ;Clin. Infect. Dis.. 2014 Jun 12
When to start antiretroviral therapy: as soon as possible.
Franco, R. A.,Saag, M. S.> ;BMC Med. 2013
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Lectures

Screening in Emergency Department Identifies a Large Cohort of Unrecognized Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Baby Boomers
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL - 5/15/2014

Press Mentions

New Data Confirms Black and Latino Communities Hit Hardest by Coronavirus PandemicJuly 11, 2020 09:40
UAB ED Launches Opioid Overdose ProgramApril 05, 2019 16:34