Joseph Knight

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Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Consultant @ Peoria, AZ, US
Peoria, AZ, US
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My background is in the Humanities: I studied & taught English & Comparative Literature for 8 years before the experience of "Third World" poverty led me to change careers to Medicine.I have worked in underserved areas including the poorest parts of South Chicago, inner city Boston & Detroit; neglected rural areas of Illinois, Indiana, Vermont, & Kentucky; an impoverished small town in West Virginia, and on nine Indian Health Service Hospitals in six states. I entered Medicine with the intention of providing care in other countries, and have practiced, taught, conducted research, & run hospitals in Kenya, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, The Republic of the Marshall Islands, The U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, New Zealand, and Indonesia. I have also worked for low-income African-Americans & other persons on Medicaid in South Chicago, Oklahoma, Boston & W. Virginia. I believe in "giving back" for the privilege of being a physician, and have therefore worked "pro bono" in Detroit, W. Virginia, Indonesia & via telemedicine in the Philippines.I have always loved teaching. I began as a Teaching Fellow in English Literature & have taught at two universities & four medical schools. Above all, I have tried to both learn from and teach my patients.Although my formal training is in Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, as a result of nearly lifelong headaches & other chronic pain, I have founded four pain clinics & taught myself Headache Medicine. I have also acquired much knowledge & experience in Psychopharmacology and Tropical Medicine. I have always had a great curiosity about diverse cultures & social systems. I am by nature restless & prefer new experiences to sameness & stability. I have been fortunate in my mentors, but have also seen a good deal of the negative side of our world: exploitation of the weak by the strong, gross injustice as well as surprising goodness. I must honestly acknowledge that on balance I view the world as one where self-aggrandizement too often triumphs over idealism, & unspeakable horrors like racism & genocide often go unpunished. For every St. Francis there are ten Genghis Khans. Of course, most of us are neither: we are fallible human beings who do the best we can. Although History is studded by wars, the majority of human beings prefer peace. But for peace to last, we must be constantly vigilant & well-informed. As physicians we have a special privilege & responsibility: to inform our patients about what ultimately matters most to them: their health & well-being.

Joseph Knight's Current Company Details
Domestic & Overseas Medical Practice & Research

Domestic & Overseas Medical Practice & Research

Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Consultant
Peoria, AZ, US
Joseph Knight Work Experience Details
  • Domestic & Overseas Medical Practice & Research
    Infectious Disease And Tropical Medicine Consultant
    Domestic & Overseas Medical Practice & Research
    Peoria, Az, Us
  • Domestic & Overseas Medical Practice & Research
    Infectious Disease & Tropical Medicine Consultant
    Domestic & Overseas Medical Practice & Research Jul 1979 - Present
  • Self-Employed Physician & Writer-Researcher
    Infectious Disease & Tropical Medicine Physician; Post-Colonial Theorist
    Self-Employed Physician & Writer-Researcher Jul 1979 - Present
  • Infectious Disease & Tropical Medicine Physician
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    Infectious Disease & Tropical Medicine Physician Jul 1979 - Present
  • Knight Clinical Research & Advocacy Center
    International Medical Consultant; Colonial & Post-Colonial Theorist; Independent Researcher & Writer
    Knight Clinical Research & Advocacy Center Jan 2015 - Present
    Medical service to impoverished minorities and citizens of Third World countries. Research carried out in Kenya, India, Mexico and Bangladesh. Overseas medical work in those four countries, as well as Eastern & Western Micronesia and New Zealand. Consultant in Infectious Disease & Tropical Medicine to the United States Navy on an official government mission to Indonesia.Co-founder and Literary Editor of The Boston Review of the Arts, with publication of many articles and interviews with well-known literary figures. Essay entitled "Nabokov and Borges: A Comparative Introduction" Harvard Potter Prize in Comparative Literature, 1974). Study of deaths of children under five years old in a Paediatric Ward in Nairobi. Kenya with a general review of mortality from Measles and atypical complications from this disease in African children with impaired immunity. Study entitled "Reducing the Pressure of the Unconscious: Enhancement of Psychic Functioning Through Guided Self-Expression" (First Prize winner, Medical Division, The Menninger Clinic, 1982). Epidemiological study of infectious and chronic diseases in Hopi & Navajo Indians (Johns Hopkins University Delta Omega Certificate of Merit)"Co-authored medical research articles on Cholera, Typhoid Fever & Leprosy published in JID & RID, the former studies carried out in Dhaka, Bangladesh; the last involving fieldwork in Culiacan, Mexico. Profile of ICDDR,B published in The Journal of Tropical Gastroenterology. Research on Volonial & Post-Colonial Literature begun at Harvard, based on a seminar I taught entitled "The English Writer & the Non-European World". Continuous research carried on in this changing field since that time. Works in Progress include "Prison Without Walls: Living with and helping other live with chronic pain";"Insanity and Incarceration: A Crime Against Man".; and "Beyond Post-Colonialism: Searching for a New Paradigm".
  • Project Hope/U.S. Navy/Pp14 (Pacific Partnership 2014)
    Infectious Disease/Tropical Medicine Specialist
    Project Hope/U.S. Navy/Pp14 (Pacific Partnership 2014) Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
    Medical Teaching Mission to Kupang City and Rote Island, Indonesia. Selected by the United States Navy as its designated Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine specialist on Pacific Partnership 2014 (known colloquially as PP-14). Directed a group of U.S. and Singapore Navy physicians in a programme designed to teach Indonesian community physicians how to manage Infectious and Tropical Diseases endemic to Indonesia. Gave seminars to Indonesian doctors who gathered at Kupang Naval and Public Health Hospitals and Rota Island Hospital. Led hospital ward rounds and provided advice on managing ambulatory and hospitalized patients with such infections as Malaria, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, HIV Disease, and Dengue & Chikungunya Fevers. Also directly treated patients at the busy Walk-In Clinic at Rote Island Hospital, simultaneously advising the physicians manning this Clinic regarding diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic conditions in situations where both diagnostic testing facilities and treatment options were extremely limited as they often are in Developing Country low-resource settings.
  • Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center
    Medical Director
    Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Jun 2012 - Nov 2012
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    Director of Adult Medicine at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts beginning in June 2012. Most of our patients were indigent African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and immigrants from Haiti. Reluctantly resigned this position because of several severe but ultimately temporary health problems and came to Phoenix, Arizona in November, 2012 to recuperate.
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  • Oklahoma State University College Of Health Sciences And Osu Medical Center/Private Practice
    Physician
    Oklahoma State University College Of Health Sciences And Osu Medical Center/Private Practice Nov 2006 - Jun 2012
    Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Oklahoma State University College of Health Sciences. Directed the Infectious Diseases Consultation Service at Oklahoma State University Medical Center. Provided Infectious Disease and Pain Management consultations on inpatients at Tulsa Specialty Hospital Treated the chronic pain, Internal Medicine, and Infectious Disease problems of more than 600 outpatients from Tulsa and surrounding communities lacking physicians with specialized knowledge in these areas. Provided prophylaxis of severe cases of chronic migraine and cluster headaches using Calcium Channel blockers, anticonvulsants and TCA's to reduce their frequency as well as treating breakthrough headaches with Triptans. Also treated patients' Affective, Anxiety, and Sleep Disorders using psychopharmacological methods.
  • Oklahoma State University College Of Health Sciences
    Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Of Medicine
    Oklahoma State University College Of Health Sciences Jan 2007 - Dec 2009
    Director of Infectious Disease Inpatient Consultation Service at Oklahoma State University Medical Center. Taught Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Family Medicine Senior Residents the essentials of management of acute and life-threatening conditions such as Diabetic Skin and Joint Infections, Bacterial Endocarditis, Pyelonephritis, Meningitis, Encephalitis, Deep Wound Infections, and Septicemia.
  • Southland Hospital
    Consultant Physician
    Southland Hospital Oct 2004 - Oct 2005
    Academic Hospitalist - Led teams of Registrars, House Surgeons, and medical students caring for patients on the inpatient wards and Coronary ICU at Southland Hospital at the bottom of South Island in New Zealand. Also developed a combined in and out-patient Pain Service at the request of the hospital, and consulted on Infectious Diseases, discovering the only occult case of Tuberculosis during that year.
  • Dunedin School Of Medicine
    Senior Lecturer
    Dunedin School Of Medicine Oct 2004 - Oct 2005
    Taught medical students from Dunedin School of Medicine as well as House Surgeons and Registrars on subjects including the History of Medicine, the Practice of Infectious Diseases, the Properties and Utilization of Antimicrobial Agents, the elements of Psychopharmacology, and General and Surgical Pain Management. Gave a Grand Rounds lecture on Headache Diagnosis and Management.
  • Commonwealth Health Center
    Physician And Hospitalist
    Commonwealth Health Center Aug 2003 - Apr 2004
    Worked as an inpatient hospitalist, including management of patients in the Medical ICU on respirators. Also treated outpatients in the ambulatory clinic. Acted in the capacity of Infectious Disease consultant to Commonwealth Health Center, the only combined primary and tertiary care medical facility on Saipan serving the entire Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and also provided Infectious Disease consultations to private physicians on Saipan as well as Rota amd Tinian Islands. Screened immigrant workers for STD's and Tuberculosis, and treated such serious conditions as Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Endocarditis, pyogenic and amoebic hepatic abscess, diabetic skin, joint and limb-threatening infections, and Obesity-Related Hypoventilation Syndrome requiring mechanical ventilation.
  • Corvallis Internal Medicine
    Physician
    Corvallis Internal Medicine Oct 2001 - Nov 2002
    Practiced Outpatient General Internal Medicine at the only free-standing Internal Medicine practice in Corvallis, Oregon. Diagnosed and managed chronic infections such as MRSA knee arthritis and pain-related conditions including Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
  • Mercy International Health Services
    Physician
    Mercy International Health Services Oct 2000 - Oct 2001
    Cared for approximately 15,000 Micronesians forced to leave their homes when their atolls became radioactive due to U.S. atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in the 1940's and 1950's. Treated patients at main clinic on capital atoll of Majuro and hospitalized at adjacent hospital, and managed patients by short wave radio throughout the Marshall Islands scattered over 3/4 million square miles of Pacific Ocean. Traveled by small plane and boat periodically to four "outer atolls", treating patients on each atoll for one or two week periods at a time. Patients were approximately 70% children, the majority under the age of five. Outer atolls typically lacked electricity except sometimes via solar panels and windmills with water occasionally obtained from deep wells and then purified on portable gas burners. Also served as Infectious Disease Consultant to Majuro Government Hospital.
  • Indian Health Service
    Physician
    Indian Health Service Jan 1996 - Dec 1999
    During 1996 through 1999 I worked for the Indian Health Service as a physician on Indian Reservations in northern Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. I practiced both Primary Care Internal Medicine and ambulatory and occasionally inpatient Pediatrics, as well as consultative Infectious Diseases.
  • Knight Family Medical Center
    Director
    Knight Family Medical Center Jan 1995 - Dec 1995
    Clinic for indigent residents of Chicago's South Side. Most patients were on Medicaid and I treated many of them for free so as not to deplete their meager financial resources. None had cars, so I drove them to the pharmacies where I had written them prescriptions and paid for those prescriptions myself when they were unable to afford them. I also drove them to the hospitals which accepted Medicaid when they needed to be hospitalized, wrote their "orders" and made certain that they were well cared for despite their unfortunate financial circumstances and the discrimination against poor African-Americans in American society.
  • Primary Care Family Center , S.C. (Northwestern Illinois Managed Care Group And Poyclinic
    Staff Physician In Internal Medicine And Consultant In Infectious Diseases
    Primary Care Family Center , S.C. (Northwestern Illinois Managed Care Group And Poyclinic Jan 1993 - Dec 1994
    I saw adult patients at all three clinics in northwestern Illinois while living in Elgin, Illinois, and driving by car between each of them every day that they were open, which was six days a week. This was especially difficult in the winter when the roads in Illinois were icy and quite dangerous to drive on. I also practiced consultative Infectious Diseases, General Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, as well as Headache Medicine, and provided Addictionology consultations for my ten physician colleagues, who were mainly Family Practitioners with one non-Board Certified internist.
  • Kuba Clinic
    Director
    Kuba Clinic Jan 1992 - Dec 1992
    Directed clinical operations at the Kuba Clinic, a longstanding Occupational and Industrial Medical Center in inner-city Chicago with contracts to provide medical care to injured workers at many industrial corporations. I also diagnosed and treated patients at the Clinic, referred them to specialists such as orthopedic surgeons if they had sustained fractures and to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialists if they could benefit from rehabilitation from their injuries or injections for their pain, and provided them with splints, crutches or other assistive devices to help them protect any arm, wrist, or hand fractures and help them to heal those fractures without leaving permanent deformities, and to ambulate despite any fractures or other injuries to their legs and feet.During this period I also served as Acting Director of Roscoe Occupational and Primary Care Clinic in northwestern Illinois close to the Wisconsin border.
  • The African-American Community
    Pro Bono Primary Medical Care Provider
    The African-American Community Jan 1991 - Dec 1992
    After working in Keyser, West Virginia, and helping an African-American woman with severe pain from surgery on her knee, I accepted her offer to come and live in nearby Piedmont, West Virginia with her family. I came to Piedmont and moved in with Tammy Twyman, her mother and her two young daughters. During the next two years I provided pro bono medical advice and wrote prescriptions for medications for both white and African-American residents of Piedmont and also took care of Tammy's mother, who had advanced Diabetes and severe Diabetic Retinopathy, driving her to Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Eye Clinic to obtain laser treatment for her eyes.
  • Danville Veterans Administration Medical Center
    Director Of Infectious Diseases And Hiv Services
    Danville Veterans Administration Medical Center Jul 1988 - Jun 1989
    After spending a year working at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, and spending another year helping a quadriplegic friend who had developed bladder cancer while teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit by getting him better medical care at Henry Ford Hospital and teaching some of his classes, I accepted a position as Director of I.D. at the Danville, Illinois VAMC in Danville, Illinois. In addition to doing Infectious Diseases consultations, I started a clinic for patients with AIDS, even though at that time physicians had only a single drug to use against the HIV virus, known as AZT. Unfortunately, this drug caused anemia which along with the anemia caused by the HIV virus itself, made life unsupportable for patients, and resistance developed to it nearly immediately, but it was all we had at that time, and after using it and then having to discontinue it, many of my patients literally died in my arms.The Danville VAMC was affiliated with the University of Illinois College of Medicine at its Urbana-Champaign campus, and the University appointed me as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine.I continued to work there for a full year despite the corruption of the Chief of Medicine, who made money illegally in a federal institution by accepting payments from drug companies for using their ineffective antibiotics to treat pneumonia, thereby also depriving medical residents from gaining experience treating that common and potentially fatal disease.However, eventually my conscience forced me to leave that institution, which soon afterwards lost its accreditation when the Chief of Medicine's corrupt practices were finally discovered, and I became an independent Infectious Disease consultant in Urbana-Champaign for other hospitals and clinics, and then took a variety of positions in Illinois and West Virginia, finally spending two years in Piedmont, West Virginia providing pro bono medical care for the African-American community there.
  • Wayne State University
    Visiting Lecturer In American Literature
    Wayne State University Sep 1986 - Jul 1988
    After learning that a very close friend who was quadriplegic had squamous cell cancer of the bladder, which had been resected, but any recurrence would have to be found immediately because that kind of cancer is not susceptible to radiation or chemotherapy, I went to his apartment on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he taught American Literature and Africana Studies. Laval Todd Duncan is the most courageous person I have ever known, but even he became demoralized when his urologist told him he had only a 50% chance of living for 5 years. I first visited Todd's doctor, who clearly thought of him as just another black man in a wheelchair. So I changed Todd's hospital to Henry Ford, and found him a very good urologist, who promised to examine him for a recurrence of his cancer very frequently. I also found him a competent general internist, and developed a plan to deal with his frequent urinary tract infections caused by his atonic bladder, by having his caretaker, who could sense when his urine was infected, send a sample of it to the hospital, and then call Todd's internist to immediately arrange to have him admitted to a bed on a medical floor of the hospital, bypassing a long wait in the Emergency Room, where Todd could die because his quadriplegia caused him to have very low blood pressure, and he nearly died when he once waited for a long time in one. I also had his new internist give Todd an antibiotic to immediately begin to treat his UTI's, which could easily infect his kidneys and cause potentially fatal bloodstream infections, and she promised to rotate them so as not to cause the bacteria causing them to become resistant.While all of this was happening I tried to also relieve Todd a little of the burden of his teaching, by teaching some of his classes in American Literature and Africana Studies.I finally felt that Todd was in safe hands, and left him to accept a job at a VAMC in Danville, Illinois.
  • Rosalind Franklin University Of Medicine And Science
    Chief Medical Resident And Attending Physician In Internal Medicine And Infectious Diseases
    Rosalind Franklin University Of Medicine And Science Jul 1986 - Jun 1987
    After completing my Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Washington in 1985, I looked for academic positions or a Chief Residency or a position that combined both. I found one at the Chicago Medical School, which is presently known as Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois.I decided to work there because its academic program at that time was poor, and I felt I might be able to improve it. So I made many changes in its curriculum, including introducing weekly Morbidity and Mortality Conferences and afternoon Medical Ethics/Continuity of Care Rounds, and developing a new Internal Medicine Core Educational Curriculum. I also redesigned the house staff Journal Club and created a new third year medical student Internal Medicine clerkship program. I made all these changes while serving as an Internal Medicine Ward Attending as well as on the Infectious Diseases Consultation Service and supervising Infectious Disease fellows.Unfortunately, even with my innovations and improvements in its educational curriculum, the academic program at Rosalind Franklin University was still sub-standard, many of its faculty were incompetent, and I felt I needed to find a position at a higher quality medical institution, so I left at the end of June, 1987 and went to Boston where I had been offered a position as Director of a private hospital, but then discovered that a close friend from graduate school at Harvard had developed bladder cancer and went to Detroit to try to help him.
  • Harvard University Department Of English And American Literature And Language
    Teaching Fellow In English Literature And The Humanities
    Harvard University Department Of English And American Literature And Language Sep 1972 - Jun 1975
    I taught a wide variety of courses in English Literature and the Humanities to undergraduates at Harvard, including 19th and 20th Century Fiction and Poetry, the traditional year-long survey of Shakespearean Drama, Classics of Western Autobiography, The History of Literary Criticism, and my own upper class seminar entitled "The English Writer and the Non-European World". I also directed junior Honors English Tutorials and senior Honors English Theses. After a three and a half month overland trip from London to India and Nepal and back to Paris at the age of 21, I decided to change my career goals from teaching English Literature to becoming a physician, in order to help more people than only college undergraduates, so I fulfilled all premedical requirements during my three years of undergraduate teaching. Since 2013 I have been revising and augmenting my never formally-submitted Ph.D. thesis.

Joseph Knight Skills

Internal Medicine Healthcare Physicians Clinical Research Public Health Teaching Healthcare Management Literature Medicine Research Infectious Diseases Healthcare Information Technology Pain Management Family Medicine Healthcare Consulting Hospitals Emr Mental Health Team Building Board Certified Program Development Working With Physicians

Joseph Knight Education Details

  • Harvard University
    Harvard University
    English Literature
  • Mount Sinai Icahn School Of Medicine
    Mount Sinai Icahn School Of Medicine
    Infectious Diseases And Pediatrics With Research In Africa And India
  • Yale University
    Yale University
    English
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health
    International Public Health

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