RobertFrancisDefraitesMD

Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

Adjunct Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics, Uniformed Services Hebert SOM

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Office
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Dep of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics
Bethesda, MD 20814

Madigan Army Medical Center Public Health and General Preventive MedicineFellowship, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, 1987 - 1989
Madigan Army Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 1980 - 1983
Tulane University School of MedicineClass of 1980

MD State Medical License 2012 - 2020
WA State Medical License 1986 - 2012
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

PubMed

72 citations
Seroepidemiology of infections due to spotted fever group rickettsiae and Ehrlichia species in military personnel exposed in areas of the United States where such infe...
Steven J. Yevich, Jose L. Sanchez, Robert F. DeFraites, Cornelia C. Rives, Jackie E. Dawson
The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1995-05-01
14 citations
Characterizing the relationship between tick bites and Lyme disease in active component U.S. Armed Forces in the eastern United States.
Carlo Rossi, Ellen Y Stromdahl, Patricia Rohrbeck, Cara Olsen, Robert F DeFraites
MSMR. 2015-03-01
90 citations
Dengue Fever in U.S. Troops during Operation Restore Hope, Somalia, 1992–1993
T W Sharp, M R Wallace, C G Hayes, Jose L. Sanchez, Robert F. DeFraites
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1995-07-01

Journal Articles

Oa Predicting Risk of Imported Disease with Demographics: Geospatial Analysis of Imported Malaria in Minnesota, 2010–2014
Patrick Hickey, Robert DeFraites, Stephen Dunlop, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene