New doctor joins IVCH Wound Center staff

The Illinois Valley Community Hospital Wound and Hyperbaric Center has added a new full-time physician to its medical panel.

Hussein Zaioor, M.D., is a board-certified infectious disease specialist who joined the IVCH staff Nov. 1. The wound center’s medical panel also includes Tom Curry, M.D.; Mark Fernandez, M.D.; and Larry Ketner, DPM.

“The addition of Dr. Zaioor to our staff means wound center patients will no longer have to wait a long time to get an appointment,” said Jill Smoode, the center’s program director.

Dr. Zaioor came to IVCH from Sterling where he had been the medical director of CGH Hospital’s wound and hyperbaric oxygen clinic. He was also part of the medical staff at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Dr. Zaioor received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.  After moving to the United States, he completed an infectious disease fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine in Connecticut after finishing an internal medicine residency with the Johns Hopkins University-affiliated Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. While at Yale he also had HIV subspecialty training.

According to the American Board of Internal Medicine, an infectious disease specialist is an internist who deals with infectious diseases of all types and in all organ systems.  Infectious disease doctors are often consulted concerning patients whose conditions require the selective use of antibiotics.

For appointment information, call 815-780-3834.