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CLAIRMONT, Albert
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Jamaica
Rehab Medicine, USA
1974 Biography 2018
After Internship at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados, Dr. Clairmont spent four years employed as an Emergency Room physician in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. He wanted to spend time with his brother, sister-in- law, nieces and nephews living there. He left for post graduate training at the Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, completing a joint residency in Paediatrics (at Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Dodd Hall, Ohio State. His thirst for knowledge led to Board Certification in Paediatrics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Pain Management. He is an associate professor in the department of PM&R at Ohio State and has lectured extensively locally and internationally.
He acquired special expertise in a number of areas, including spasticity and dystonia management, where he routinely employs Botulinum neurotoxin injection therapy and use of intrathecal baclofen pumps (ITB). He was the first to introduce ITB to Central Ohio and started the first ever spasticity management clinic at Ohio State and Central Ohio in general.
Dr. Clairmont has been ranked in the top 1% of doctors in the USA, in his specialty.
Memories
Memory 1 (see next page for continuation)
It was decided that a politically connected, practically off-campus student, who was given a coveted room on campus, Block B, Taylor Hall, should occupy his room more of the time. Usual practice was that local students, with certain exceptions, lived off campus and that foreign students or Jamaican nationals within certain parameters, were given priority to stay on campus. A certain category of student who was deemed to have robbed a more deserving student of a room on campus, would be regarded poorly. Block B students were known avengers/pranksters. By reputation, members of Block B, would have thought political connectedness a socially unjust reason to keep a deserving student out of a campus room and would have thought of a way to demonstrate their opinion. On a Sunday afternoon, a couple of students savvy/gifted in handling cows, encouraged/directed a stray cow to enter the room, against the poor cow’s wishes.