Overview
Hickory ID Consultants offers specialty care to patients with chronic or complicated infectious diseases.  The clinic also provides pre-travel consultations for international travelers.

Dr. Wheaton Williams is board certified in both Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine.  He has been a specialist in infectious diseases since he completed fellowship training in 1993.  Dr. Williams performs consultations on hospitalized patients, office consultations, and outpatient follow-up.  Working with Dr. Williams is Georgann Gosnell, a certified family nurse practitioner.  

Travel Clinic
In addition to infectious disease care, Hickory IDConsultants operates CVMC’s Travel Clinic.  The clinic provides travel consultations and recommendations to help protect a traveler’s health and prevent illness on international excursions based on governmental and World Health Organization guidelines.

Consultation is provided in the following areas:

• Prescriptions for antibiotics to treat traveler’s diarrhea
• Prescriptions for malaria prophylaxis, including resistant regions
• Recommendations for treatment of jetlag, altitude sickness
• Recommendations for environmental protection measures, such as poor air quality, disease outbreaks, and latest disease/outbreak information from the World Health Organization and Travax® specific to each country
• Information regarding required and recommended immunizations
• Tuberculosis skin tests
• Travel health precautions
• Vaccine schedules
• Disease risk summary
• Safety issues
• Information on obtaining travel-specific insurance and MedJet

Location
3412 Graystone Place
Conover, NC 28613
(828) 326-2145

Financial  Information
The Central Billing Office performs the billing and collections functions for Hickory ID Consultants.  If you have questions about your bill, please call 828-464-2210.  Hours of operations are Monday – Friday from 8:00am – 5:00pm