Jorge Fleisher, MD, Joins Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Division at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Jorge Fleisher, MD, Joins Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Division at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center 

Boston – Internal medicine and infectious diseases specialist, Jorge Fleisher, MD, has joined Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston.

A resident of Natick, Mass., Fleisher is a well-known primary care provider who specializes in serving Spanish-speaking communities. He joins Caritas St. Elizabeth’s distinguished community-based primary care physician network.

“Dr. Fleisher is a respected clinician, researcher and instructor,” says Paul Kasuba, MD, chief, division of internal medicine at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s. “He brings exceptional experience in all areas of primary care and internal medicine. He is a valuable addition to St. Elizabeth’s team.”

Fleisher is fellowship-trained in infectious diseases and has served as principal investigator in a number of important clinical trials on infectious diseases. He comes to St. Elizabeth’s from the MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Mass., where he served as the medical director of the SouthSide Clinic and as an attending physician in the Hepatitis C Clinic and HIV Clinic. Fleisher received his medical degree from Anahuac University School of Medicine in Mexico City, Mexico and completed internship and residency training at MetroWest Medical Center at the University of Massachusetts in Framingham, Mass. He also completed fellowship training in infectious diseases at Montefiore Medical Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and at Boston Medical Center in Boston.

At Caritas St. Elizabeth’s, Fleisher will split his time between the Primary Care Clinic at St. Elizabeth’s Health Care at the Brighton Marine Building at 77 Warren Street, Boston, and the Infectious Diseases Division at the medical center. His office is located on the third floor at the St. Joseph’s Building at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 Cambridge Street, Boston. He can be contacted by calling the Primary Care Clinic at 617-562-5200, Infectious Diseases at 617-789-2372 or Caritas DoctorFinder at 1-800-488-5959.

Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is a major academic medical center affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Areas of medical excellence include cardiology and cardiovascular research, neurosciences, women’s health, high-risk obstetrics, bone and joint health, hematology/oncology, pulmonary medicine and gastroenterology. Caritas St. Elizabeth’s is a member of Caritas Christi Health Care, the second largest care system in New England.