Alfredo (Fred) A. Lopez,
M.D., FACP
748 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Contact: 504/524-3342
alopez1lsu@yahoo.com

Meet Dr. Lopez: Dr. Fred Lopez is an infectious disease specialist who is currently Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Medicine at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Dr. Lopez was born and raised in New Orleans before moving to northern California and obtaining an undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Stanford University. He received his graduate degree in medicine from the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and then returned to Stanford University where he was an intern, resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine and a fellow in Infectious Diseases.

He is on the editorial board of several medical journals and has written more than 100 journal articles, chapters, and abstracts, many of them addressing his area of clinical interest, the syndrome of fever and rash. He is also co-editor of a McGraw-Hill textbook entitled, Infectious Diseases: Emergency Department Diagnosis & Management.