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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.
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
I will encourage the SBCMS Executive Committee and Board of Directors to continue to meet and become familiar with the physicians at all hospitals throughout the county in an attempt to make organized medicine a familiar face, answer questions and be relevant to their lives and practices.
I was Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Hi Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree for two years, 1989-1991, and since 1993, Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Barstow Community Hospital.
I started out by trapping and doing surgery on little lizards and birds because I wanted to see what they were made of.
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
I met my wife, Arlene Braham, M.D. while at Loma Linda University School of Medicine.