Dr. Linda Hyder Ferry MD, MPH
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
11201 Benton St Loma Linda CA, 92357About
Linda Ferry is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Loma Linda, CA. Ferry specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Ferry participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Loma Linda University School of Medicine 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Non-nicotine pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation.
- Overcoming barriers to nicotine dependence treatment.
- Tobacco dependence curricula in US undergraduate medical education.
- Quality improvement and accountability in the treatment of tobacco dependence: the need for a national training and certification programme.
- Bupropion SR as an aid to smoking cessation in smokers treated previously with bupropion: a randomized placebo-controlled study.
- The power of the press in smokers' attempts to quit.
- Tobacco dependence curricula in undergraduate osteopathic medical education.
- Mentoring Cambodian and Lao health professionals in tobacco control leadership and research skills.
- Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the nonsmoking population of Cambodia.
- Smoking characteristics of female veterans.
Treatments
- Obesity
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