About The Author
Karina is a physician, blogger, nascent filmmaker, traveler, and generalist-geek born and educated in the Philippines, now living in Houston, Texas. She has participated in medical missions and organized volunteer healthcare activities in her home country, in areas ranging from remote mountain barrios to underserved urban neighborhoods.
She has a passion for books, film, photography, international medicine, technology, medicine 2.0, and global public health. She has growing curiosity about genetics, emergency medicine, aerospace medicine, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and health informatics. She is inspired by the works of Larry Brilliant, Michael Crichton, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran.
She is an adjunct professor at a college in northwest Houston. She is an associate for International Medicine and Public Health at Medworm, a medical RSS feed provider and search engine based in the U.K. and an editor at MedPedia, a project that aims to build the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia for information about health, medicine and the body. She also volunteers at a cancer center and a community clinic in the Houston area while she works/further studies for her U.S. certifications.
She lives with her husband, Gerry. Together, they like to experiment with food and pretend they are chefs, bike, take walks, shoot pictures, learn how to dance, and watch marathons of their favorite shows — especially when they are not out crazily airport hopping.
She still listens to U2, loves a good cup of coffee, thinks BISUG are the greatest, and will forever be fascinated by Albert Einstein’s luxuriant hair.
She may be reached at: thestoryofhealing (at) mac (dot) com.
I enjoyed the slide show by B Mesko and reading your life story. Congratulations on your efforts to become certified in the US. eMedicine will become more and more important to healthcare although it will take time for us older physicians to catch up with the technology. So much of medical care is and will change as biomedical science advances [eg, genomics, stem cells, vaccines, transplantation] but especially as engineering and computer science advances bring us now technologies [imaging, medical devices, OR technologies, digital medical information]. You and your co-bloggers might find my book “The Future of Medicine – Megatrends in Healthcare” of interest for a glimpse of medical care five to fifteen years out. Look for excepts and weekly podcasts at http://www.medicalmegatrends.com
Thank you, Dr. Schimpff, for coming by today and for sharing your book. I will share this very interesting resource to many. You are right, medicine is definitely evolving fast before us.
Thanks for the wishes and encouragement. Congratulations as well!