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Adolescent Medicine Specialist
These doctors focus on the needs of patients in their pre-teen years through young adulthood.
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Allergy & Immunology Specialist
These specialists diagnose and treat immune system conditions, including:
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Anesthesiologist
Doctors in this field sedate patients with medication during surgery. They may also help patients to remain in stable condition during surgery.
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Colon & Rectal Surgeon
Colon and rectal surgeons diagnose and treat diseases of the small intestine, colon, rectum, anal canal and related areas. They may also deal with other organs tied to intestinal diseases, such as the liver.
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Critical Care Specialist
These doctors diagnose, manage and help coordinate patient care in intensive or critical care units in hospitals.
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Dermatologist
These specialists treat skin conditions and diseases, such as:
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Emergency Medicine Specialist
Doctors in this field are trained to quickly evaluate and treat patients who have severe injuries or illnesses that require emergency care. They usually work in a hospital emergency room.
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Endocrinologist
These specialists diagnose diseases that affect your glands. They know how to treat conditions that are often complex and involve many systems within your body. You may see an endocrinologist if you have:
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Adolescent Medicine Specialist
These doctors focus on the needs of patients in their pre-teen years through young adulthood.
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Family Doctor
These doctors focus on the health care of the individual and family and are trained to diagnose and treat a wide range of medical conditions in patients of all ages.
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Gastroenterologist
Doctors in this field diagnose and treat diseases of the digestive organs, including the stomach, bowels, liver and gallbladder. Conditions may include:
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Geriatric Medicine Specialist or Gerontologist
These doctors treat diseases and problems that often affect the elderly, such as high blood pressure and memory loss.
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Hand Surgeon
Hand surgeons treat problems of the hand, wrist and forearm. They may treat these problems with or without surgery.
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Hand/Plastic Surgeon
Doctors in this field are plastic surgeons with additional training. They may help patients restore the use of their hands and/or wrists after injury, disease or deformity.
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Hematologist
Doctors in this field specialize in diseases of the blood, spleen and lymph glands. They may treat conditions such as:
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Hospice and Palliative Care Specialist
These doctors help relieve the suffering of patients who have advanced serious illnesses. They work with a hospice or palliative care team to maximize quality of life. They help with the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of illness.
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Infectious Disease Specialist
These doctors diagnose and treat serious illnesses caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi that can be spread from one person to another. Examples may include:
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Medical Geneticist
Doctors in this specialty diagnose, counsel and help patients to manage diseases that are at least partially inherited through genes.
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Nephrologist
Doctors in this field treat disorders of the kidney. They may manage the care of patients on dialysis. They may also consult with surgeons about kidney transplantation.
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Neurologist
Doctors in this field diagnose and treat nervous system disorders. The focus may include diseases of the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles. People may see a neurologist if they have:
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Neuromuscular Medicine Specialist
These doctors diagnose and help treat and manage nerve and muscle disorders, such as:
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Neurological Surgeon
These surgeons diagnose, treat and help manage diseases, illnesses and injuries of the:
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Neurotologist
Neurotologists are a type of ear-nose-throat (ENT) doctor. They treat conditions and diseases of the ear and the bones alongside the skull, including hearing and balance problems. Areas of knowledge include:
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Nuclear Medicine Specialist
Doctors in nuclear medicine perform a procedure that uses a substance containing a "radioactive tracer." This is often a substance, called a radiopharmaceutical, which a person takes. An imaging system detects and measures this substance in the body. This information can be used for diagnosis and research. Sometimes radioactive tracers can be used to treat some diseases and conditions, and the pain they cause.
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Obstetrician-Gynecologist
These specialty doctors are also known as Ob-Gyns. They:
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Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Hospice and Palliative Care
These Ob-Gyn specialists treat the symptoms and help relieve the pain of women with life-ending illnesses. Their job includes:
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Adolescent Medicine Specialist
These doctors focus on the needs of patients in their pre-teen years through young adulthood.
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Oncologist
Oncologists are a type of internist, a doctor who diagnoses and treats unusual or serious diseases. They:
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Oncologist, Obstetrician-Gynecologist (Ob-Gyn)
These specialty Ob-Gyns oversee the care for cancer of a woman’s reproductive system. This includes finding the cause of and treating this cancer and its complications.
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Ophthalmologist
They provide eye and vision care for patients of all ages, by:
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Orthopedic Surgeon, Sports Medicine
These doctors provide care for injuries to parts of the musculoskeletal system - bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints and connective tissue - that are caused by playing sports. These specialists focus on:
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Otolaryngologist, ENT
These specialty doctors provide medical and surgical care for patients with allergies, diseases, illnesses, injuries, abnormal cell growths and deformities that affect the:
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Pain Medicine Specialist
Pain medicine finds the cause of and treats painful illnesses, diseases and injuries. Because pain medicine is widely used throughout the medical profession, specialists in this area:
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Pathologist
Doctors in pathology deal with diseases and their causes. They use information gathered by looking at tissue specimens, cells and body fluids under a microscope. Then they perform medical lab tests on the findings, to diagnose, rule out and monitor disease.
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Pediatric Surgeon
Doctors in this field operate on and help care for children from newborns to teenagers. This care also includes surgery on babies before they are born.
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Pediatrician, Cardiology
These pediatricians provide medical care for babies, children and young adults with diseases and conditions of the heart or blood vessels.
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Pediatrician, Dermatology
These pediatricians treat skin diseases that affect babies, children and young adults.
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Pediatrician, Endocrinology
These pediatricians care for babies, children and young adults who have diseases or conditions caused by a defect in the glands that produce hormones in the body. These diseases or conditions include:
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Pediatrician, Hematology-Oncology
These pediatric specialists diagnose, help manage and treat blood disorders and cancer in babies, children and young adults.
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Pediatrician, Infectious Disease
These pediatricians find the cause of, treat and help prevent contagious diseases in babies, children and young adults. They help improve outcomes for:
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Pediatrician, Nephrology
These pediatricians deal with babies, children and young adults, and:
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Pediatrician, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
These pediatricians identify, find the cause of and treat babies, children and young adults with developmental delays or learning disorders often linked to:
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Pediatrician, Pulmonology
These pediatricians help find the cause of and treat diseases and conditions affecting the airways, lungs and breathing system muscles of babies, children and young adults.
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Pediatrician, Rheumatology
Pediatricians in this area diagnose and treat babies, children and young adults with diseases and injuries of joints, muscle, bones and tendons. These include:
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Pediatrician, Sports Medicine
These pediatricians promote health and fitness, as well as work to prevent and manage injury and illness, in children and young adults who participate in a sport. They have experience in:
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Pediatrician, Hospice and Palliative Care
Pediatricians in this specialty help relieve the suffering of patients with life-ending illnesses. A care team may help the patient and the family with quality of life and end-of-life issues. This care can occur in or out of a hospice facility.
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Specialist
These doctors help patients with problems of movement or body function. These problems may include neck and back pain, sports injuries, brain trauma or other conditions. A doctor certified in this area is called a "physiatrist." The goal of treatment is to restore function and manage pain.
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Plastic Surgeon
Plastic surgeons repair or reconstruct damaged parts of the body, including skin, facial structure, breasts and more. Cosmetic surgery is one type of plastic surgery and helps to improve overall appearance.
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Plastics: Head and Neck Specialist
Doctors in this type of plastic surgery have more training in reconstructing parts of the head, face and neck.
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Preventive Medicine/Occupational Medicine Specialist
Doctors in this field may focus on general preventive medicine, public health, occupational medicine or aerospace medicine. They work with large groups of people as well as with individual patients to promote health. The goal is to understand the risks of disease, injury, disability and death, so patients change and reduce these risks.
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Pulmonologist
This specialty doctor treats diseases of the lungs and airways. For example, this doctor diagnoses and treats cancer, pneumonia, asthma and other lung disorders.
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Radiologist
Radiologists use special equipment (X-rays, CT scans, etc.) to help diagnose patients and offer therapeutic care options, such as for cancer.
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Radiologist, Hospice and Palliative Care
A health care professional in this field helps prevent and relieve the suffering of patients with life-ending illnesses. A care team may help the patient and the family with quality of life and end-of-life issues. This care can occur in or out of a hospice facility.
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Reproductive Endocrinologist
This specialist helps treat and manage reproductive disorders in men, women and children. This includes hormone disorders, menstrual problems, infertility and more.
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Rheumatologist
Doctors in this specialty treat diseases of joints, soft tissues, muscle, bones and tendons. For example, they treat people with different types of:
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Sleep Medicine Doctor
Doctors in this field diagnose and help manage clinical conditions that occur during sleep. These conditions disturb sleep or are affected by problems with the wake-sleep cycle.
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Sports Medicine Specialist
This area includes doctors, physical therapists and other health care professionals who give ongoing care to help prevent or manage injury and illness. The goal is to improve the health of people so they can continue to exercise or play sports.
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Surgeon
Some doctors are general surgeons. They deal mostly with diseases and disorders affecting the abdomen, digestive tract and surrounding areas. Common problems they treat include:
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Thoracic Surgeon
Doctors in this specialty care for and operate on patients with conditions within the chest. For example, they might repair the heart, coronary arteries, heart valves, lungs and more.
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Toxicologist
These doctors help prevent and treat injury and illness from exposures to drugs, chemicals, and biological and radiological agents. They help people in clinical, academic, governmental and public health settings.
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Transplant Hepatologist
This specialty deals with liver transplants. Doctors in this field help care for patients before and after their transplant.
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Urologist
Doctors in this field diagnose and treat problems of the urinary tract, bladder and surrounding structures.
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Vascular & Interventional Radiologist
Doctors using this use images to help insert and guide small devices into the body through small openings. This may be used to open arteries, place a stent, break up a clot and in many other therapies.
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Vascular Neurologist
Doctors in this field help patients prevent and recover from nervous system diseases due to problems with blood vessels. This includes the diagnosis and treatment of:
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Vascular Surgeon
Doctors in this field diagnose and care for patients with diseases and disorders affecting the arteries, veins and lymphatic systems, excluding vessels of the brain and heart. They might:
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