Saturday, March 14, 2009

Margaret Hamburg


Margaret Hamburg is the daughter of Beatrix and David Hamburg, both distinguished physicians and early role models for her career in medicine. Her mother was the first African-American woman to attend Vassar College and to earn a degree from the Yale University School of Medicine (which had previously excluded black students). Her Jewish father and grandmother taught her to value education and family and to fight discrimination and oppression.
Margaret Hamburg, one of the youngest people ever elected to the Institute of Medicine (IoM, an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences), is a highly regarded expert in community health and bio-defense, including preparedness for nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. As health commissioner for New York City from 1991 to 1997, she developed innovative programs for controlling the spread of tuberculosis and AIDS.
Hamburg is a graduate of Radcliffe College. She earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and completed her training at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center. She did research in neuroscience at Rockefeller University in New York from 1985 to1986 and in neuropharmacology (the study of the action of drugs on the nervous system) at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

1 comment:

  1. Medicalize Pot please!!! I swear it works better than any pill they have ever ever ever given me and has utterly tuned my pain down to a minamal. Narcotics were so addiciting this is no where near the effect of narcotic drugs. I swear if it wasnt for medical pot in california i would be a junkie and not be working so hard to take care of my kids....it motivates you in someways as well....Give a chance...We all know you can study it and approve it for anerexic people/ people in mental or physical impairment/ pain over narcotics!!!!!...its proven..i believe...that it helps you eats...most people recognize the muchies...as an anti-anorexic apprach to treating your wasting away body as a last resort...mainly women suffer fromt that though. But it creates jobs.... and helps a vast number of people...Please look at the facts and have a reasonable opinion on mainly directing the funds toward state revenue....Tax the shit out of it...it helps many many people. Honestly it can really really kill our deficit..if its carried out nationwide..

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