Samuel Wilson
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
While technical and clinical information is acquired through a residency program, we are basically committed to a lifetime of ongoing education.
We do not know nearly enough at the present time about how genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure collaborate in disease.
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.
The main goal of the Environmental Genome Project is to enhance population-based research toward identifying environmental exposure/disease relationships.
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
The goal of the initial phase of the Environmental Genome Project is to stimulate research in the area of polymorphism discovery.
The approach proposed by the Environmental Genome Project offers great scientific opportunity and the potential to improve public health.
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
Once polymorphisms (or alleles) have been discovered, study groups can be held to consider the research required for assignment of allele frequency.
My primary goal is to help remove the barriers to the implementation of information technology in the practice of medicine locally.
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
In fact, NHANES III cell lines will be used by the Environmental Genome Project.
I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.