Mr. John Rush Pierce MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
1400 Coulter Amarillo TX, 79106About
John Pierce is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Amarillo, TX. Pierce 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, Pierce 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
University of California 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Geriatric Medicine
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Systems analysis of a clinical error.
- Measuring the effects of privatization.
- Unsafe neighborhoods, social group activity, and self-rated health.
- Lifestyle and mental health.
- Place-of-residence errors on death certificates for two contiguous U. S. counties.
- Living near a trail is associated with increased odds of walking among patients using community clinics.
- Prostatic abscess due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Converting a potential agency crisis into community success: mercury recycling program following elemental mercury exposures in Amarillo, Texas, 2004.
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Texas: 1993-2006.
- Tularemia outbreak at a metropolitan airport, Texas.
- Innovations in faculty development: study of a research assistance unit designed to assist clinician-educators with research.
- Attempts by one local health department to provide only essential public health
- The electronic health record and improving quality for hospitalized elderly adults.
- Spilt Milk: An Unusual Cause of Bilateral Chylothorax.
- Look No Further: An Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
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