Dr. Richard E Gilbert MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Occupational Medicine
4700 Point Fosdick Dr Nw Suite 102 Gig Harbor WA, 98335About
Richard Gilbert is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Gig Harbor, WA. Gilbert 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, Gilbert 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
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1970
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Attenuation of tubular apoptosis by blockade of the renin-angiotensin system in diabetic Ren-2 rats.
- Urinary transforming growth factor-beta excretion in patients with hypertension,
- Progression of tubulointerstitial injury by osteopontin-induced macrophage
- Expression of the slit-diaphragm protein, nephrin, in experimental diabetic nephropathy: differing effects of anti-proteinuric therapies.
- The renin-angiotensin system influences ocular endothelial cell proliferation in diabetes: transgenic and interventional studies.
- Urotensin II: a new player in vascular and myocardial disease?
- Protein kinase C beta inhibition attenuates the progression of experimental diabetic nephropathy in the presence of continued hypertension.
- COX-2 inhibition and retinal angiogenesis in a mouse model of retinopathy of prematurity.
- Vascular endothelial growth factor expression and glomerular endothelial cell
- Over-expression of platelet-derived growth factor in human diabetic nephropathy.
- Direct actions of urotensin II on the heart: implications for cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy.
- Demographics and concomitant disorders in heart failure.
- Mast cell infiltration and chemokine expression in progressive renal disease.
- Urinary connective tissue growth factor excretion in patients with type 1 diabetes and nephropathy.
- Does vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) play a role in the pathogenesis of minimal change disease?
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