Claro Palma, MD
Fax: (706) 515-7033
Business hours
| Monday | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Tuesday | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Wednesday | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Thursday | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Friday | - |
| Saturday | - |
| Sunday | - |
About us
Claro Palma, MD received his medical degree from the University of the Philippines, in Manila, Philippines. He completed internal medicine internship, then residency in Internal Medicine at the Worcester City Hospital in Worcester Massachusetts. He completed his fellowship in Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Dr. Palma is a member of the American College of Physicians, board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine / Rheumatology and is a Certified Clinical Densitometrist through the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. Dr. Palma specializes in adult rheumatology and provides specialty care in diagnosis and treatment of the full spectrum of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, gout, pseudogout, polymyalgia rheumatica, giant cell/temporal arteritis, osteoporosis, systemic lupus, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, Sjogren's syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, and vasculitis. Dr. Palma welcomes new patients and accepts most insurance plans.
| Languages | English, Tagalog |
| Tags | acute arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, antinuclear antibody (ana) blood test, arthralgia, arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis of multiple joints, arthropathy, autoimmune diseases, autoinflammatory diseases, biologic therapy for rheumatologic diseases, bone densitometry, chronic fatigue, cold sensitivity hands, complement deficiency, cranial arteritis, crystalline arthritis, discoid lupus erythematosus, dry mouth, elevated sedimentation rate, familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, fibromyalgia, giant cell arteritis, gout, gout of the arm, gout of the elbow, gout of the hand, gout of the wrist, hand arthritis, hand pain, immunoglobulin g deficiency, inflammatory arthritis (ia), inflammatory myopathy, inflammatory polyarthropathy, joint disorder of multiple joints, joint stiffness, joint swelling, localized scleroderma, lupus nephritis, lupus panniculitis, lupus rash, lyme disease, mixed connective tissue disease, multi system inflammatory syndrome, muscle weakness, myalgia, polyarthralgia, polymyalgia rheumatica, positive anca, positive antinuclear antibody (ana) test, positive ccp, positive rf, pseudogout, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, raynauds disease, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid nodules, rheumatoid vasculitiis, scleroderma, sicca syndrome, sjogrens, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic scleroderma |