Fernando Alvarado, MD, MPH &TM, FACP, joined IDC in 2000.  He received his medical degree from the Colombian School of Medicine in 1989, later trained in Internal Medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis, MO,  and earned his Fellowship in Infectious Disease at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 1997. Dr. Alvarado is a Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine from Tulane University. He has extensive field experience in tropical diseases and malaria in Colombia, and attended the Diploma course of the B.-Nocht-Institut for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, in 1992.

Dr. Alvarado is certified in HIV Medicine by the American Association of HIV Medicine. He is also Board-Certified in Hyperbaric Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He treats most patients requesting Travel Health services at IDC, offering vaccinations and counseling, as well as immigration physicals.