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Office
The Lipid Center of Virginia
6675 Booker T. Washington Hwy.
Wirtz, VA 24184Phone+1 540-721-6622Fax+1 540-721-0141
Summary
- Dr. George Chaconas is a Family Medicine physician based in Wirtz, VA, with extensive experience in lipid metabolism disorders. He completed his medical education at Eastern Virginia Medical School and his residency at Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Dr. Chaconas has been serving at Back Nine Family Medicine since 2017 and also works as a Clinical Lipidologist at The Lipid Center of Virginia. His previous long-term role was at Burnt Chimney Family Medicine from 1989 to 2017.
Education & Training
Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of MedicineResidency, Family Medicine, 1984 - 1987
Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolClass of 1984
Certifications & Licensure
VA State Medical License 1985 - 2026
MD State Medical License 1987 - 1990
American Board of Family Medicine Family Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Practice Fusion EHR, Practice Fusion, Inc., 2012-2013
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 23 citationsChanging of the guard: How the Lyme disease spirochete subverts the host immune responseGeorge Chaconas, Mildred Castellanos, Theodore B. Verhey
The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2020-01-10 - 21 citationsAntigenic Variation in the Lyme Spirochete: Insights into Recombinational Switching with a Suggested Role for Error-Prone Repair.Theodore B. Verhey, Mildred Castellanos, George Chaconas
Cell Reports. 2018-05-29 - 11 citationsConstruction and Characterization of a Borrelia burgdorferi Strain with Conditional Expression of the Essential Telomere Resolvase, ResTNicholas J. Bandy, Aydan Salman-Dilgimen, George Chaconas
Journal of Bacteriology. 2014-07-01
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