Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Buffalo VA Medical Center
United States of America
Ryosuke Osawa clinical expertise is in the management of infections in patients who have undergone solid organ transplant or hematopoietic stem cell transplant. These patients require a dedicated diagnostic and treatment approach, as they are severely immunocompromised due to medications they receive to prevent organ rejection and are susceptible to a large number of pathogens (bacteria, fungi, viruses) that should not cause infections in healthy individuals. He also treat infections in immunocompromised patients secondary to cancer, chemotherapy, and medications (steroids, biologics, etc). He provide consultation for inpatients in Buffalo General Medical Center (BGMC) and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, usually as a result of a referral from a primary care physician, but he also see patients referred from specialty services such as general surgery for surgical site infections, orthopedics for joint infections, cardiothoracic surgery for pacemaker infections, etc.
Infectious Diseases