Dr. Catherine A Schaefer M.D.
Family Practitioner
1606 Horseshoe Dr Columbia SC, 29223Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Catherine Schaefer is a family practitioner practicing in Columbia, SC. Dr. Schaefer specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Schaefer possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Univ of Sc Sch of Med, Columbia Sc 1994
University of South Carolina At Columbia 1994
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Detection of postpartum depression and anxiety in a large health plan.
- Serologic evidence of prenatal influenza in the etiology of schizophrenia.
- Treatment with stimulants among youths in a large California health plan.
- Maternal exposure to toxoplasmosis and risk of schizophrenia in adult offspring.
- Maternal-fetal blood incompatibility and the risk of schizophrenia in offspring.
- Response to Zhang et al. (2005): loss-of-function mutation in tryptophan hydroxylase-2 identified in unipolar major depression. Neuron 45, 11-16.
- Prenatal determinants of schizophrenia: what we have learned thus far?
- Prenatal exposure to maternal genital and reproductive infections and adult
- Does unwantedness of pregnancy predict schizophrenia in the offspring? Findings from a prospective birth cohort study.
- No evidence of relation between maternal exposure to herpes simplex virus type 2 and risk of schizophrenia?
- Elevated prenatal homocysteine levels as a risk factor for schizophrenia.
- Congenital anomalies and early functional impairments in a prospective birth cohort: risk of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder in adulthood.
- Maternal iron deficiency and the risk of schizophrenia in offspring.
- Prenatal infection and cavum septum pellucidum in adult schizophrenia.
- Prenatal exposure to maternal infection and executive dysfunction in adult schizophrenia.
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