Posted on 08/20/2007 7:08:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Dr. Henry Gong, a prominent pulmonary physician and a member of the California Air Resources Board, has died.
Board chairwoman Mary Nichols said Monday that Gong died from heart failure Aug. 16 at his home in Pacific Palisades, surrounded by his family. He was 60.
"Dr. Gong brought a unique, invaluable perspective to air issues as a physician specializing in pulmonary health," Nichols said in a statement. "All of us who breathe California's air owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Gong as one of the state's true clean air champions. We will miss him."
Gong, one of 11 air board members, was a physician at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center where he was chairman of the Department of Medicine, chief of the Environmental Health Service and medical director of Respiratory Care Services.
He had published more than 250 papers and book chapters related to respiratory diseases and the health effects of air pollution, according to a biography posted on the rehabilitation center's Web site.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Gong to the Air Resources Board in 2004. He also served on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He was a professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
Gong had a bachelor's degree from the University of the Pacific and a medical degree from the University of California, Davis. He received a pulmonary fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Whatever advice the doctor was giving out sure didn’t seem to contribute to his own longevity.
60 is too young. I like clean air.
God, the headlines almost write themselves:
CARB BANGS GONG (fails to get it on!)
GOV’s CARB GONG GONE
I heard a couple weeks age that the average life expectancy of a doctor is 56. Not verified, however.
You see a lot more old drunks than old doctors.
That doesn’t sound right. If they include psychologists maybe. They have a high suicide rate.
“Whatever advice the doctor was giving out sure didn’t seem to contribute
to his own longevity.”
Even the godfather of calorie-reduction longevity couldn’t hit 80.
The Wikipedia article said he died of ALS, but IIRC, in The Los Angeles
Times obituary Walford said he thought the stale/tainted air in Biosphere
had cost him some years of life.
(probably too many vegetarians flatuating in an enclosed system, IMHO!!!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford
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