About Tashi Droma
Tashi Droma was born and raised in Tibet. She
later studied Chinese and Western medicine in China and earned a medical
degree in 1979 from the Medical University of West China in Chengdu, China.
Her residency was at the Tibet Institute of Medical Sciences, Lhasa, Tibet.
After completing her residency in 1980, she began her practice as a staff
physician for both the Tibet Medical Institute and the First People's Hospital
of Tibet. She practiced medicine and served as a medical researcher in Lhasa
for more than a decade before moving to the United States.
Treatment methods and approaches she used in Tibet represent a fusion of Western and Chinese medicine, with diagnosis and therapy techniques ranging from acupuncutre and herbal medicines to western-style physical examination, diagnosis, and treatment.
In the United States, she worked as a research assistant and a post-doctoral fellow for the Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Aside from these positions, she has also served as a Hospice caregiver, health aide for disabled elderly people, electro-cardiography technician, and general medical assistant.
Tashi Droma is married and with her husband has three children.
- Increased vital and total lung capacities in Tibetan compared to Han residents of Lhasa (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 86:341-351, 1991)
- Hypoxic ventilatory responsiveness in Tibetan compared with Han residents of 3,658 m. (Journal of Applied Physiology, 74(1):303-311, 1993)
- Minimal hypoxic pulmonary hypertension in normal Tibetans at 3,658 m. (Journal of Applied Physiology, 74(1):312-318, 1993)
- Are Tibetans better adapted? International Journal of Sports Medicine, 13:s86-88 1992)
- Protection from intrauterine growth retardation in Tibetans at high altitude. (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
- Effect of altitude on uterine artery blood flow during normal pregnancy
- Breathing and brain blood flow during sleep in patients with chronic mountain sickness (Journal of Applied Physiology)
- ECG Observations in Tibetan and Han Residents of Lhasa