Davidcomings

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I respect your rules about editing material about ones self, but I respectively suggest that I would be able to supply information of interest to the reader that may not be available to an independent author/editor. I think what I have added is objective and fair, subject to an editors review. I would particularly like to edit the section of the actions of the medical board that provide insight into what really happened. I have attached the entire proposed edited version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidcomings (talk • contribs) 03:12, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

07-JAN-2019

David E. Comings (born March 8, 1935 in Beacon, New York)[1][2] is an American medical geneticist and former chief of genetics at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, a position he held from 1966 until his 2002 retirement.[3][4][2] He has served as the president of the American Society of Human Genetics (1988) and the editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Human Genetics (1979–86).[2] He served five years on the Genetics Study Section of the NIH (1974-1978), and 13 years on the Basal O’Connor Grant Scientific Study section of the March of Dimes (1977-1993). He has been a fellow of the American Society for Clinical Investigation since 1968.[5] He is known for his research on chromosome structure and the genetics of Tourette's syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which he began studying in 1980 with his wife, Brenda Comings.[6][4] He has also studied the role of genetics in nicotine addiction[7] and alcoholism.[8,9] He published 482 research articles (10)

Part of his interest in ADHD was because some family members suffered from the condition, including his wife. Very few physicians understood and were comfortable treating Adult ADHD, fearing Medical Board action since it required the use of controlled substances such as Adderal (dextroamphetamine). Because of this he treated her himself. This indeed brought him in conflict with the Medical Board of California and in 1994, he was placed on five years probation (11) which only involved restricting him from treating is wife. When an alternative physician was found, the medications remained the same.

His wife died in 2001 from complications of orthopedic surgery. He re-married in 2008. He and his current wife have traveled world-wide doing bird photography (12)

Books[edit source] Tourette Syndrome and Human Behavior (Hope Press, 1990) Search for the Tourette Syndrome and Human Behavior Genes (Hope Press, 1996) The Gene Bomb (Hope Press, 1996) Did Man Create God?: is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain? (Hope Press, 2008)

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Davidcomings (talk) 03:12, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

References

Reply 08-JAN-2019

  Wrong venue. Please move to WP:AFC  

• Your proposal appears to be a request to create an article. If this is correct, please make your request at articles for creation. Regards,  Spintendo  05:19, 8 January 2019 (UTC)