Dr. Margaret Mary Cortese M.D.
Adolescent Specialist | Adolescent Medicine
1600 Clifton Rd Centers For Disease Atlanta GA, 30333About
Dr. Margaret Cortese is an adolescent specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Cortese works with patients who are in the adolescent age, or generally between the ages of 11 and 19 years old. As an adolescent-specialist, Dr. Cortese treats many common health issues that pre-teens and teenagers face, from mental, to behavioral, to physical conditions. Some of these issues may include growth and hormone problems, sports injuries, eating disorders, substance abuse and more. Adolescent specialists perform medical exams, histories and diagnostic tests, and develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1986
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tetanus surveillance--United States, 1998--2000.
- High incidence rates of invasive pneumococcal disease in the White Mountain Apache population.
- Children with Haemophilus influenzae bacteremia initially treated as outpatients: outcome in 85 American Indian children.
- Incidence of Bordetella pertussis infection in adolescents and adults.
- A "new age" in pertussis prevention new opportunities through adult vaccination.
- Detection of RNA of mumps virus during an outbreak in a population with a high
- Pertussis hospitalizations among infants in the United States, 1993 to 2004.
- Development and evaluation of dual-target real-time polymerase chain reaction assays to detect Bordetella spp.
- Prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis among infants and children: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
- Burden of acute gastroenteritis hospitalizations and emergency department visits in US children that is potentially preventable by rotavirus vaccination: a probe study using the now-withdrawn rotashield vaccine.
- Decline and change in seasonality of US rotavirus activity after the introduction of rotavirus vaccine.
- Rotavirus burden among children in the newly independent states of the former union of soviet socialist republics: literature review and first-year results from the rotavirus surveillance network.
- G and P types of circulating rotavirus strains in the United States during 1996-2005: nine years of prevaccine data.
- Reduction in gastroenteritis in United States children and correlation with early rotavirus vaccine uptake from national medical claims databases.
- Global impact of rotavirus vaccines.
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