Claudio S. Lehmann, MD, Rheumatologist currently serving patients within the Medical Clinic of North Texas, and affiliated with Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, Baylor All Saints Fort Worth and Plaza Medical Center has been named a 2017 Top Doctor in Fort Worth, Texas. Top Doctor Awards is dedicated to selecting and honoring those healthcare practitioners who have demonstrated clinical excellence while delivering the highest standards of patient care.
Dr. Claudio S. Lehmann is a vastly experienced rheumatologist, having been in practice for five decades. His long and successful medical career began in 1963, when he graduated from the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile. After an internship and residency at San Juan de Dios Hospital he also practiced internal medicine in southern Chile in a community hospital as part of his training. He later worked in the Jose Joaquin Aguirre University of Chile Hospital teaching and doing research. Dr. Lehmann moved to the United States in 1972 and did residency in internal medicine at the Dallas VA and later a fellowship in Rheumatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Dr. Lehmann has a reputation as an expert in Rheumatology, and he diagnoses and treats a wide range of conditions. These include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthritis, systemic lupus. ankylosing spondylitis, chronic neck and back pain, fibromyalgia, gout and unusual connective tissue disease such as vasculitis. He has also worked as an in patient consultant treating hospitalized difficult cases. He has done some office procedures including joint aspiration and injection and trigger point injections for achy muscles. He worked in rheumatology clinics and taught house staff physicians at the JPS county hospital for several years, and trained several Rheumatology fellows for the UNT Medical School.
Dr. Lehmann is renowned not only for his clinical expertise and wealth of experience, but also for his patient centric attitude. He takes time to explain conditions and potential treatments with its pros and cons to his patients and has a sympathetic approach to their illness. This laudable philosophy makes Dr. Claudio S. Lehmann a very worthy winner of a 2017 Top Doctor Award.
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