Profile of: A. Robert Franco MD
Dr. Franco is a Fellow of The American College of Rheumatology.
His innovative treatment of Arthritis, using Antibiotic Therapy, has made him one of the leaders in this aspect of the field of Rheumatology today.
To learn more about the origin of Dr. Franco's insight, click here.
The principal aim of his practice is to bring the most comprehensive, caring and up-to-date medical services available to his patients.
Dr. Franco is involved in lecturing, teaching, and research in the area of his specialty.
- Al Robert Franco
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- American College of Physicians
- American College of Rheumatology
- American Rheumatism Association
- ARA Multicenter Cooperative Study.
- Aristo Vojdani
- Arthritis
- Arthritis Center
- Baltimore
- British Society for Rheumatology
- California
- California Academy of Physician Assistants
- California Medical Association
- California State Senate
- Catholic Medical Center
- chronic fatigue
- chronic fatigue sydr
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- chronic illnesses
- chronic illnesses. 
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Clinical Drug Trials
- Clinodactilia
- Connective tissue diseases
- connective tissue diseases.
- Del Seguro
- Fatigue
- Fatigue Illnesses
- Fibromyalgia Syndromes
- Franco
- Gulf War
- Gulf War Illness
- gulf war syndrome. 
- intracellular bacterial infections
- J. Chronic Fatigue Sydr..
- J. Haier
- Jamaica
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
- Laboratory Director-Arthritis Center
- Lima
- Maryland
- MD
- md journal
- medical
- Medical Association
- medical internships
- medical residency
- medical school
- Medicine
- Multicenter Cooperative Study
- mycoplasmal infections
- n. l. nicolson phd
- New York
- Nicolson PhD
- Nicolson Rheumatology
- Pacific
- Permanente Medical Group
- Peru
- PhD
- Physician
- Pomona
- Queens
- Queens Hospital Center
- related disorders study
- Rheumatism.
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis. 
- Rheumatology
- rheumatology fellowship
- Riverside Medical Association
- Road Back Foundation
- Robert Erwin
- Robert Franco
- Scleroderma Capillary Abnormalities
- scleroderma subcommittee.
- Seguro Social del
- Special Congressional Recognition
- State Senate
- Systemic Sclerosis
- Union Memorial Hospital
- United States
- universidad nacional mayor de san marcos
- Vivo Capillary Examination
- Western University of Health Sciences
Education and Affiliations
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Medical School: |
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru |
| Medical Internships: | Hospital Central Del Seguro Social del Empleado, Lima, Peru |
| Medical Residency: | Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore Maryland |
| Rheumatology Fellowship: | Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens at Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, New York |
| Medical Practice: |
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Group Practice-Fontana, California Medical Director - Arthritis Center of Riverside-Riverside, California Laboratory Director-Arthritis Center of Riverside-Riverside, California |
| Professional Membership: |
Founding Fellow of the American Rheumatism Association Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology International Society for Extremity MRI in Rheumatology (ISEMIR) American College of Physicians California Medical Association Riverside Medical Association American Association for Clinical Chemistry California Academy of Physician Assistants The Road Back Foundation, Advisory Board |
| Teaching Appointments: |
Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Western University of Health Sciences. Pomona, California |
| Awards: |
United States Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition California State Senate Certificate of Recognition, 2001. |
| Research and Publications: |
Role of Mycoplasmal Infections in Fatigue Illnesses: Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes, Gulf War Illness and Rheumatoid Arthritis. G.L. Nicolson, PhD, M.Y. Nasralla, PhD, A. R. Franco, MD, K. De Meirleir, MD, N. L. Nicolson PhD, R Ngwenya, MD, and J Haier, MD, PhD, (Minireview-Microbiology) J. Chronic Fatigue Sydr.. 2000; 6(3/4) 23-39 Diagnosis and Integrative Treatment of Intracellular Bacterial Infections in Chronic Illnesses: Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes, Gulf War Illness, Rheumatoid Arthritis and other Chronic Illnesses. Garth L. Nicolson, PhD, Marwan Y. Nasralla, PhD, A. Robert Franco, MD, Nancy L. Nicolson, PhD, Robert Erwin, MD, Richard Ngwenya, MD, and Paul A. Berns, MD. Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine 2000; 1 (2): 42-102 (Official Journal of the American College of Advancement in Medicine) Multiplex PCR for the detection of Mycoplasma Fermentans, M. Hominis, and M. Penetrans in patients with Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Gulf War Syndrome. Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MT, Al Robert Franco, MD Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Vol. 5., No. ¾. 1999, pp. 187-197 Detection of Mycoplasmal Infections in Blood of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. J. Haier, M. Nasralla, A. R. Franco and G. L. Nicolson Rheumatology 1999; 38:504-509 Clinical Drug Trials on Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. New York 1978-1979 Cooperated with Dr. William A. D’Angelo as a Fellow in Rheumatology in the following four research projects which have been presented at scientific meetings and/or published in ARA Criteria for Scleroderma Subcommittee. Clinical Criteria for Early Diagnosed Systemic Sclerosis (SS): Preliminary Results of the ARA Multicenter Cooperative Study. (Abstr.) Arthritis and Rheumatism. 21:576, 1978 Prevalence of Scleroderma Capillary Abnormalities in Connective Tissue Diseases. (Abstr.) Arthritis and Rheumatism. 21:576, 1978 Diagnosis Potential of In Vivo Capillary Examination for Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis) and Related Disorders Study of Prevalence of Camptodactilia and Clinodactilia as a genetic marker in patients with Connective Tissue Diseases and their Relatives. |
| Personal Information: |
Dr. Franco is married and has four children. |