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Posted on November 22, 2023
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Over three years ago Dr. Wormser helped me sort through a medical issue that I was having. I really appreciated his compassionate care and wise counsel during a very dark time in my life.

Posted on February 20, 2020
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I worked with Dr. Wormser and his staff a couple of years ago when I got hit with two different tick related diseases at once. I became part of a study and was so out of it I could barely move or open my eyes. I felt the life being drawn out of me. What ever Dr. Wormser gave me as part of the study worked within a week and I"m pretty much back to normal although I'm going to give him a call today because I got bit with a different kind of tick and my knee is acting up. I had a rash, more ambiguous in shape than the clear bulls-eye I had previously but I think he'll still give me the test. I hope. Thanks Dr. Wormser.

Posted on April 7, 2019
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Terrible, conflicted, and incompetent human being that should not have any involvement in medicine.

Posted on July 23, 2015
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He is the nastiest man on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on October 15, 2014
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His disregard of Late Stage Lyme has no scientific basis. I am unsure why he is consulted about this scientifically based condition.

Posted on August 24, 2012
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I am writing this review in the hopes that I will save someone else's health. I went to the Lyme Clinic at the Westchester Medical Center and saw Dr. Wormser himself. I know now that at the time of my appointment I had clear symptoms of Lyme and ehrlichiosis. I am sure Dr. Wormser knew this but for political reasons had to perpetuate the myth that blood tests are infallible and Lyme disease almost always results in a bull's eye rash. Because my bloodwork was negative I was told to go on my merry way. I now have chronic Lyme and ehrlichia and am planning on either finding a surrogate for the child I hope hope to have or be on antibiotics for the whole pregnancy. Tick-borne illnesses can be passed in utero as well as possibly sexually transmitted. Please DO NOT trust your health to Dr. Wormser (or the Lyme Clinic at all for that matter). Find an LLMD and you will get better.

Posted on March 15, 2012
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Unfortunalely there are many misconceptions regarding the diagnosis and management of Lyme disease. Patients often become quite agitated if they do not receive the care they are expecting based on internet information and other less than reliable sources. Dr Wormser is a leading authority in this field. In fact he recently authored a clinical review in the New England Journal of Medicine on Lyme disease. In addition he is a classically trained physician. He has outstanding bedside manner and clinical skills. He spent 75 minutes with me trying to sort out my issues...and in the most professional manner I have ever experienced. And as a physician, I recognize his level of excellence. Outstanding.

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Biography

Gary P. Wormser, M.D. is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at New York Medical College. He is Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Pharmacology. Dr. Wormser is Director and Founder of the Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center, a well-respected walk-in clinic for the care and study of patients with tick-borne infections. At Westchester Medical Center, Dr. Wormser is Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and Director and Founder of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. He was acting Medical Director of the AIDS Care Center at the Westchester Medical Center from August 2006 through June 2008. Dr. Wormser received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (magna cum laude), majoring in mathematics and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He did his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, as well as his Infectious Diseases Fellowship, at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York. Dr. Wormser is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He is a member of AOA. Dr. Wormser’s principal research interests are Lyme disease, babesiosis, and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, with other research activities in HIV infection, infection control, and investigational antimicrobial agents and vaccine preparations. Dr. Wormser is on the editorial board of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, the Archives of Medical Science, PLOS ONE and Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. He has edited one of the leading textbooks on AIDS now in its 4th edition and has authored over 400 published papers, including 23 publications in the New England Journal of Medicine alone (that are listed by PubMed). He is coauthor of the original description of AIDS appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1981. He was recipient of the Dean’s Distinguished Research Award from New York Medical College in 1999, he was one of two individuals to receive a citation for exemplary service from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2007, and was chosen to deliver the American Public Health Association Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship in 2007 for his contributions to the epidemiology of infectious diseases. He is listed in the Best Doctors in America databases, in the Castle Connolly Guide to America’s Top Doctors and in the Castle Connolly Guide to the Best Doctors in New York. He has won best teacher awards from the Medical Residents at Westchester Medical Center (2000) and from the Medical Students at New York Medical College (1985, 1993).


Languages

  • English

Education

  • Johns Hopkins Univ Sch Of Med, Baltimore Md 21205 (Grad. 1972)

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Areas of Expertise

  • Infectious diseases

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