Doctor Who Dorothy
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Welcome to the official website for Dr. Dorothy Park & Associates, your trusted Columbia eye care professional. Dr. Dorothy J. Park and her dedicated team have provided a high standard of individualized Eye Care Professional services for families in and around Columbia, SC since 1988. We've achieved that track record of success by always putting our patients' needs first. That is why we schedule eye appointments starting at 7:30am and as late at 6:00pm (along with our "Lunch Express" options). By making eye care more convenient, we also help to ensure that you can obtain that care when you need it for a lifetime of better ocular health and vision.
Eye Care Professionals and ophthalmologists have many similarities and differences. Ophthalmologists are trained to be ocular surgeons; there are 7 different specialties! Eye Care Professionals care for the medical health of your eyes, treat diseases (such as glaucoma) and make sure that you see the very best. Dr. Park owns the practice and the location, making "the buck stop here." The commercial chains are tempting but are mostly owned and operated by larger corporations with employee doctors. We at Dr. Dorothy Park & Associates will give you the best care known in the eye care community.
Eye exams - Regular preventative exams are single most important thing you can do for eyes and vision. We can evaluate your eye health for signs of diseases that may require soonest possible treatment, while also evaluating how well your eyes are actually functioning. Vision testing lets us determine whether you have any refractive errors that might call for corrective lenses.
Eyeglasses - We offer a fantastic range of fashionable eyeglasses featuring many of the hottest designer names in the industry. Adults and children alike will find the perfect eyeglasses to suit their needs, taste and style.
Contacts - We can makes the extra evaluations necessary to fit for for the best type of contacts for your eye health and refractive error. Options include state-of-the-art specialty lenses for treating astigmatism, presbyopia, keratoconus and many other "hard to fit" conditions.
Eye disease treatment - We can provide the necessary monitoring, recommendations and treatment for eye disease that might otherwise rib you of your vision. Let us care for your cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, macular degeneration, dry eye and conjunctivitis.
Please take a moment to explore this website and learn more about the many features and services we provide here at Dr. Dorothy Park & Associates. Then contact us at (803) 254-6306 to schedule an eye exam or other necessary care from our Columbia eye care professional!
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Dr. Dorothy Fink is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health and Director of the Office on Women's Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Fink brings to OASH extensive experience treating women's health issues. She is board certified in endocrinology, internal medicine, and pediatrics, and is recognized as a physician leader on topics such as diabetes, nutrition, and bone health. Previously, her clinical practice focused on women from adolescence through menopause and beyond. She is a nationally certified menopause practitioner and an expert on estrogen.
Dr. Fink has done extensive research related to women's health, including evaluation of blood markers to assist in the diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea and investigating the role of diabetes in women's skeletal health. Dr. Fink has presented at national meetings on polycystic ovary syndrome, the female athlete triad, and other bone-related conditions. Most recently, Dr. Fink practiced at the Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University, where she served on the faculty and worked with women to attain optimal health, treated metabolic bone conditions, and improved patients' diabetes care prior to surgery.
As a Georgetown University undergraduate focusing on health studies, Dr. Fink developed a passion for public health. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed her combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She then completed a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. During her fellowship, Dr. Fink was selected as a Women's Health Scholar and worked at the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women's Health. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics, including thromboembolic disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen was the first physician to identify cystic fibrosis as a disease and, together with her research team, created the first tests to diagnose it. She also spent nearly a decade examining glycogen storage disease, and studied cardiac malformations in great detail. She collected many specimens for her pathological research and left a valuable catalogue of disease used to pioneer new surgical treatments.
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1901, Dorothy Andersen and her mother moved to Vermont after her Danish father died when she was 13. She attended Saint Johnsbury Academy and Mount Holyoke College. After earning her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1926, Andersen completed a surgical internship at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, then taught anatomy at the University of Rochester. When she was denied a surgical residency at Strong because she was a woman, she joined the staff in the department of pathology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Between 1930 and 1935, while an instructor of pathology at Columbia, Andersen researched endocrine glands and female reproduction, also earning a doctorate of medical sciences in 1935.
That same year she took up a position as assistant pathologist at Babies Hospital at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Interested in inherited malformations of the heart, she began to collect the hearts of infants born with cardiac defects. In the mid-1940s, surgeons pioneering open-heart surgery sought out Andersen's help because of her vast knowledge of infant cardiology and her collection of specimens. She used her store of knowledge and experience to develop a training program for cardiac surgeons at several hospitals.
Andersen's duties included performing autopsies. While conducting an autopsy on a child who had presented the clinical picture of celiac diseasean illness caused by an intestinal hypersensitivity to gluten that inhibits digestionAndersen noticed a lesion in the pancreas. Following an extensive search of the autopsy records and related medical literature, she discovered a clear, though previously unrecognized, disease pattern. She called it cystic fibrosis. But Andersen did not think of herself solely as a pathologist and continued to work on diagnosing this new disease in living patients. Andersen and her research team made numerous discoveries that led to a simple diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis, one that is still in use today.
Dr. Andersen considered herself a rugged individualist, a pediatric clinician, a research chemist, and a roofer and carpenter happy to make her own home improvements. Routinely described as "windblown" by friends and detractors alike, she was considered quite a character. She is said to have kept a particularly untidy lab, holding semi-annual "glg" parties there, in honor of her Scandinavian heritage.
Dr. Andersen was an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and honorary chair of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation. She received numerous awards for her work, including the Elizabeth Blackwell Award in 1954 and the Distinguished Service Medal of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in 1963.
For people with healthy gums and teeth: 1 visit every 6 months is a great routine to professionally remove tartar, calculus, and staining, and to have the doctor check the health of everything in your mouth. For those with gum recession, bleeding, or deeper pocketing, maintenance is key! Seeing your hygienist every 3-4 months will ensure the healthy status of your mouth for years to come.
We are in a two-story white building called Woodlake Park on the corner of Ella Lee and Tanglewilde; in the Westchase district off Houston. Our office is on the second floor of the South tower. Physical address is 2500 Tanglewilde suite #498 Houston, TX 77063.
Soft bristles, and electric toothbrushes are ideal. For toothpaste we like the Arm & Hammer a line of toothpaste do to the baking soda component or Sensodyne toothpaste for those with sensitive teeth.
Bleeding and inflamed gums (gingivitis or periodontitis) left untreated can lead to serious consequences. Both gingivitis and periodontitis have been shown to raise your risk of things like diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, pneumonia, and cancer. If diagnosis happens early, and if treatment is prompt and proper, gingivitis can be successfully reversed. Proper home care and professional dental cleanings can help eliminate much of the bacteria in your mouth.
Dr. Castille received her B.A. in English and speech education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1969. She earned her M.A. in anthropology from California State University, Hayward in 1986, a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, and completed post-doctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University from 1998-2001. Her graduate and postgraduate work included psychological anthropology; qualitative and quantitative research methods; psychiatric sequelae of stress, trauma, and stigma; and Native American, Alaska Native, Latino, and Asian cultures. Dr. Castille has a research associate scientist appointment with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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