Infectious Disease Physician With Unique Expertise

Of all the fungal diseases, toxic mold related disease is of prime importance to her.  She sees toxic mold as an unrecognized public health area of tantamount importance.  The public and the medical community together are uninformed of the dangers from even a single exposure to these poisons called mycotoxins. Unrecognized patients are misdiagnosed with progressive neurologic or lung disease, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic lyme disease. Continued exposure to mycotoxins can result in irreversible damage. As an Infectious Disease Specialist trained at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Irene H. Grant, MD, CAC. has treated a wide range of patients with different medical conditions and infectious complications. She is experienced in managing immunodeficient patients such as those with cancer on chemotherapy, HIV/AIDS, on steroids, diabetes, malnutrition, alcoholism, geriatric, SLE, etc... Her expertise in infectious disease includes viral, bacterial infections, parasitic and fungal infections. Dr.Grant's unique expertise in diseases due to fungi. Trained at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with years of work caring for  inner-city patients, including HIV/ AIDS, she has treated many immunocompromised with fungal complications. Since her expert involvement with a New York City Mold outbreak with Stachybotrys in1996, she has helped and cared for numerous patients exposed to toxic mold. Dr. Grant has evaluated many patients ill from exposure to the black mold Stachybotrys chartarum,  and other fungi, especially Aspergillus and Pencillium. She has combined her training in Eastern and Western Medicines to developed integrative medicine protocols to help mold-exposed patients with consequent debility and chemical sensitivity.   patients recover from the consequent debility and chemical sensitivity. Nutritional management, acupuncture and herbal medicine have helped many. Through collaboration with mold remediation experts, she has helped patients identify and eradicate molds in their environments. Her training in hospital-based Infection Control combined with collaboration with mold remediation environmental specialists has given her facility with analyzing environmental mold data.