“Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.” shared the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Well, we are blessed within our Jamaican community to have a young physician who is dedicated to the well-being of the Island through his dedication to using his extraordinary gifts to tackling some of the toughest health challenges our people face.
Marshall Tulloch-Reid, MD, MPhil, DSc
Dr. Marshall Tulloch-Reid is a Physician and Endocrinologist certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a lecturer in the Epidemiology Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, UWI and Director of the Clinical Research Programme at the Heart Institute of the Caribbean.
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Dr. Tulloch-Reid has also published several papers on obesity and risk factors for type 2 diabetes. His current research projects include The Classification of Youth Onset Diabetes in Jamaica and Cardiovascular Disease in adult Jamaicans.
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We caught up with him in Washington DC, where he had made a presentation earlier at the National Institutes of Health
Click to listen to his review of Jamaica’s healthcare
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Excellent health is perhaps your most precious possession. It is more than just physical well being. It is a condition of the mind and spirit to be fully whole. Do all you can to attain, maintain, and enjoy optimal health.
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