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What is environmental & occupational medicine?
Occupational and environmental medicine is perhaps the most wide ranging of all medical specialties, according to the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). It is the medical specialty devoted to prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness and disability, and promotion of health and productivity of workers, their families, and communities.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine physicians:
- treat job-related diseases
- recognize and resolve workplace hazards
- institute rehabilitation methods
- provide well-managed care
Professional Societies
- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)
- Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics
News Coverage
- Three of our occupational medicine faculty were among 296 "Top Doctors" listed in the March 2007 issue of Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. Scott Barnhart, Jordan Firestone, and Joel Kaufman were voted in by peers.
- Joel Kaufman's work is profiled in an article appearing in the Seattle Times, Feb. 1, 2007: "An unpleasant 'surprise': higher risks from pollution"
- Kaufman’s study attracted worldwide media attention, as described in the winter 2007 issue of Environmental Health News
- Gary Franklin and Michael Silverstein's work is described in the Autumn 2005 issue of Environmental Health News, Stages of Working Life
- Catherine Karr, director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, has studied the risks of lead and arsenic in the water fountains at the Seattle Public Schools
- "War in Iraq - New Challenges for Occupational Medicine" profiles the work of Dr. Stephen Hunt, a graduate of our program