Andrea Gaston Quotes

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 completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

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.

Once polymorphisms (or alleles) have been discovered, study groups can be held to consider the research required for assignment of allele frequency.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

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.

While technical and clinical information is acquired through a residency program, we are basically committed to a lifetime of ongoing education.

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.

After completing two years of college in Jamaica, I came to the United States at age 18 to attend La Sierra University in Riverside.

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.

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.

The approach proposed by the Environmental Genome Project offers great scientific opportunity and the potential to improve public health.

My primary goal is to help remove the barriers to the implementation of information technology in the practice of medicine locally.

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.

The goal of the initial phase of the Environmental Genome Project is to stimulate research in the area of polymorphism discovery.

We do not know nearly enough at the present time about how genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure collaborate in disease.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

A key to success in the future is to define broader environmental health goals that call for better linking of environmental and public health.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

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.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

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.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

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.