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Rocio M. Hurtado

Rocio M. Hurtado MD, DTM&H, FIDSA

Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine and General Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Rocio Hurtado, MD, DTM and H, is an Infectious Disease physician at the ID Unit at MGH. She trained in Internal Medicine at MGH, with subsequent ID training at MGH and BWH including an HIV fellowship. She has additional Tropical Medicine training from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Rocio has extensive clinical and programmatic experience in the management of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and HIV-TB coinfection in resource-limited settings through her work overseas which includes Peru, Uganda, South Africa and Ethiopia.

She is currently the Clinical and Technical Advisor for the Global Health Committee program for MDRTB treatment in Ethiopia (a treatment program in partnership with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health). She is currently the Director of the Mycobacterial Center at MGH, and is also the Associate Program Director for Global Health in the Dept of Medicine at MGH.
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