Mission

Our mission is to diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases caused or aggravated by workplace and community environmental exposures. We serve as advocates to reduce occupational and environmental risk for patients, labor, management, and community groups.

Clinic

The Occupational & Environmental Medicine Clinic at Harborview Medical Center offers comprehensive services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of occupational and environmental exposure, illness, and injury. To learn more about the services we provide, visit us at Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic.

Care Providers:  

Catherine Karr, MD  
Joel Kaufman, MD  
Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD  
June Spector, MD  
Victor Van Hee, MD  
 Sverre Vedal, MD  

In addition to standard clinical services, our program offers other services, including:

The Treatment of Chemically Related Illness provides the best possible diagnosis and treatment for patients with chemically related illness.

The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit provides health care providers, government officials, educators, and families with telephone consultation on health risks associated with environmental exposures.

The Occupational Health Expertise provides health care coordination services to injured workers early in the claims process.

• About Center of Occupational Health and Education (COHE)
• The Center of Occupational Health and Education (COHE) at UW Medicine Harborview 

Medical-legal Consultations provide expert medical-legal consultation services concerning a wide range of exposures and illness.

Other Public Health Services

To better serve our community, our program is associated with several other organizations, including:

Washington Poison Center  provides immediate, free and expert treatment advice and assistance on the telephone in the case of exposure to poisonous, hazardous or toxic substances.

MEDCON  provides toll-free consultation and referral service to WWAMI region.

Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety Continuing Education Program offers continuing education courses for workers in safety health, occupational medicine, and environmental health.

Puget Sound Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds provides expert Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions that focus on issues encountered by occupational and environmental health physicians in local, regional, national and international settings.

Collaborative Center for Health Work and Environment provides international services training scientists and professionals of occupational medicine in Vietnam, Thailand, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.