| Brian Trimble, MD has spent his entire career working
as a neurologist with Alaska Natives at the Alaska Native Medical
Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Realizing the potential for epidemiologic
research in this health care network, together with his interest
in stroke, he and others established the Alaska Native Stroke Registry.
The purpose of the Registry is to conduct statewide surveillance
of stroke to understand better stroke in Alaska Natives, and to
develop culturally appropriate interventions to recue the burden
of stroke in this interesting population. Dr. Trimble did his under
graduate studies at the University of Nevada in Reno. He received
an M.D. degree from the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
After an internship in Reno, Dr. Trimble did his neurology residency
at the University of Washington in Seattle. After his residency,
Dr. Trimble spent a year with the Department of Neurological Surgery
at Harborview Medical Center as a Stroke Fellow. Dr. Trimble is
a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service
and is part of the Indian Health Service assigned to the Alaska
Native Medical Center. He and his wife live in Eagle River, Alaska.
They have two grown sons, Sean an assistant district attorney in
Visalia, California, and Aaron, a medical school at the University
of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
