Meet The Medical Director

Dr. Gale Lawrence received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Nevada School of Medicine where she devoted herself to serving underprivileged members of the community throughout her medical training. She completed residency in Family Medicine at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center where she maintains privileges to this day. Dr. Lawrence has maintained her private Family Medicine practice within the Seal Beach and Long Beach communities for over 20 years and continues to devote herself both to her current patients in the local community as well as volunteering her time and resources to helping those around the world.

Dr. Lawrence has been donating her time and expertise to those stricken by natural disasters around the world for over 15 years. She has worked with Doctors Without Borders, and volunteered for years in remote Mexican villages where medical care is desperately needed.

Among dozens of other aid trips Dr. Lawrence was also one of the first responders to arrive in Haiti after the horrific 2010 earthquake. Working with her hand-picked team in a makeshift outdoor clinic, she spent sleepless weeks treating hundreds and hundreds of victims of gangrene, fractured limbs, electrical burns, dehydration and dysentery. In her own words Dr. Lawrence describes one of her first experiences in Haiti,

"We were essentially the very first medical team to reach Haiti after the horrible earthquake in early 2010. We were told we couldn't even get there, because there were no flights, and were warned it was too dangerous to proceed. Our flight was the first to reach Haiti, other than military flights, and we landed in the middle of swarms of people. We were immediately mobbed by hungry refugees needing food, water, and medical care. I started seeing patients right in the airport, before we could even get to the parking lot. Later we set up our ‘clinic’ under a tree outside of the tent city. We had mercenaries with rifles helping to keep us from being mobbed by desperate people. I started treating gangrene victims, people with fractured limbs, second and third-degree electrical burns -- there were lots and lots of babies who would have died without medical intervention.

I have received much more from my medical experiences than I have ever given. It has been such a privilege to be able to help these people and others around the world. I feel like I was given the opportunity and the gift to be able to respond -- trained in the medical skills that in many instances, have saved lives. It really gets to you, when you know a mother still has her baby, or the baby her mother because we were there to provide medical care. If we hadn't been there they might not be here, because there simply wasn’t anyone else to help them."

Dr. Lawrence currently holds hospital privileges at several hospitals in the area. She is always available for consultations at her office in Seal Beach, CA.