Dr. Robert O Wright MD, MPH
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Medical Toxicology
300 Longwood Ave Children's Hospital, Boston MA, 02115About
Robert Wright is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Wright 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, Wright 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 Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1989
University of Michigan Medical School 1989
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cognitive deficits and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in adult monozygotic twins with lead poisoning.
- Evaluation of promotility agents to limit the gut bioavailability of extended-release acetaminophen.
- Cumulative lead exposure and prospective change in cognition among elderly men: the VA Normative Aging Study.
- Environmental neurotoxins.
- End-tidal carbon dioxide as a measure of acidosis among children with gastroenteritis.
- Longitudinal associations between blood lead concentrations lower than 10 microg/dL and neurobehavioral development in environmentally exposed children in Mexico City.
- Low-level lead exposure, metabolic syndrome, and heart rate variability: the VA Normative Aging Study.
- Cumulative lead exposure and cognitive performance among elderly men.
- The challenge posed to children's health by mixtures of toxic waste: the Tar Creek superfund site as a case-study.
- Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic evidence of glial effects of cumulative lead exposure in the adult human hippocampus.
- Lead levels and ischemic heart disease in a prospective study of middle-aged and elderly men: the VA Normative Aging Study.
- Stress as a potential modifier of the impact of lead levels on blood pressure: the normative aging study.
- Modifying effects of the HFE polymorphisms on the association between lead burden and cognitive decline.
- Lead burden and psychiatric symptoms and the modifying influence of the delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) polymorphism: the VA Normative Aging Study.
- Association between the plasma/whole blood lead ratio and history of spontaneous abortion: a nested cross-sectional study.
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