Dr. Desmond A Crooks MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
1460 G St Springfield OR, 97477About
Desmond Crooks is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Springfield, OR. Crooks 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, Crooks 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
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1990
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Axonal injury in closed head injury by assault: a quantitative study.
- Epidemiology of central nervous system tumors in children and young adults (0-29 years), Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
- The glial reaction in closed head injuries.
- A method to quantitate axonal injury.
- The pathological concept of diffuse axonal injury; its pathogenesis and the assessment of severity.
- Polarized infra-red radiation as an aid to crystal analysis.
- Pathogenesis and biomechanics of traumatic intracranial haemorrhages.
- [Palatine mucormycosis and thrombosis of the cavernous sinus].
- [Primary malignant hemangioendothelioma of the skull].
- [Disseminated mycobacteriosis and nocardiosis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome].
- Cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
- Forensic medicine in Panama.
- Trigeminal neuralgia due to vascular compression in multiple sclerosis--post-mortem findings.
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