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Staff Directory
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Dr. Brian L. Strom - (Chair)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Brian Strom is Associate Vice Dean, Chair and Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology, and Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Internationally known for multiple areas of clinical epidemiology, Dr. Strom’s major career interest is pharmacoepidemiology, specifically looking at adverse drug reactions and medical errors. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his master’s of public health from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Institute of Medicine member. He was Chair of the Institute’s committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine and of the the Institute's committee on the Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation, as well as a member of the IOM’s Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program.
Ms. Robin Baker
University of California, Berkeley
Robin Baker, MPH, is the Coordinator of Public Programs at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Public Health and Director of the Labor Occupational Health Program. LOHP is a community service program that provides training, information and assistance to workers, labor organizations, joint labor-management health and safety committees, community-based environmental justice groups, and others. Robin Baker is a health educator with more than 20 years of experience in the occupational health field, and is an instructor in the graduate public health education program at UC Berkeley. She has published numerous articles and resources on worker training. She currently directs more than a dozen federally and state funded projects ranging from an examination of the experience of injured workers in the California Workers Compensation system to a pilot school-based program to educate teen workers. Before coming to LOHP in 1981, she directed a worker training program for electronics workers in Silicon Valley, and served on the staff of the Cal/OSHA education unit..In addition, she serves as Director of several major projects, including the California Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program, the Working Immigrant Safety and Health (WISH) Coalition, and the National Young Worker Health and Safety Resource Center.
Dr. Leslie I. Boden
Boston University School of Public Health
Les Boden is Professor of Public Health and Associate Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. He is an economist, and much of his research has focused on finding ways to highlight the economic and human consequences of injuries and illnesses and to identify ways of minimizing those consequences. Over the past several years, Dr. Boden has published studies measuring the income lost by injured workers and the adequacy of workers’ compensation benefits. With BUSPH colleague Lee Strunin, he has also published several studies of the post-injury experiences of injured workers and their families. Recently, Dr. Boden has been working on a study that estimates underreporting of workplace injuries. He has also written on occupational safety and health regulation, medical screening, gender inequality, and the legal and public health use of scientific information. From 1988-1997, Dr. Boden served on the Mine Health Research Advisory Committee of the Department of Health and Human Services, which he chaired for six years. In 2001-2002, he was a member of the Worker Advocacy Advisory Group, which advised the Department of Energy on occupational disease compensation. He has also co-chaired a group advising the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on its research agenda on the social and economic consequences of workplace illness and injury.
Dr. Barry Bozeman
University of Georgia
Barry Bozeman is Crenshaw Professor of Public Policy. He holds an appointment as Adjunct Honorary Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Before joining the University of Georgia he was Regent's Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Tech, and Professor of Public Administration and Adjunct Professor of Engineering, the Maxwell School , Syracuse University. At Georgia Tech, he was first full-time Director of the School of Public Policy and founding Director of the Research Value Mapping Program. At Syracuse University, he was founding Director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy. Bozeman 's practitioner experience includes a position at the National Science Foundation's Division of Information Technology and a visiting position at the Science and Technology Agency's (Japan) National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. Bozeman is co-editor of Journal of Technology Transfer. Bozeman has served as a consultant to a variety of federal and state agencies in the United States, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He has helped in the design and evaluation of the national innovation systems of the Republic of South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, France, Chile, and Argentina. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Commerce, EPA, the Office of Naval Research, the Kellogg Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He has served on four National Academy of Science/National Academy of Engineering panels. He is author or editor of 15 books.
Dr. Stephen W. Hargarten
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Hargarten is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). He has been practicing Emergency Medicine for over 30 years. He received his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin and his MPH degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He currently serves as the Director of the Injury Research Center at MCW, one of twelve CDC funded centers in the United States. For over 20 years he has been an active injury prevention and control researcher, educator, and practitioner. He recently served on the advisory committee for developing the acute care research agenda for the National Injury Control and Prevention Center of CDC. Dr. Hargarten has published frequently in the peer-reviewed literature on injury topics. His major injury-related activities include injury surveillance, particularly linked data sets, violence, injury in travelers, and trauma system development. He currently also serves as the Director of the Firearm Injury Center at MCW. He is the immediate past president of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and is currently a member of the board of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
Dr. Brian M. Kleiner
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Brian M. Kleiner is professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and founding director of the Center for Innovation in Construction Safety and Health, a core research unit in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He is immediate past director of the Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics Center, and currently directs the Macroergonomics and Group Decision Systems Laboratory in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His interest in the socio-technical nature of work systems is supported by his educational training in both psychology and engineering. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering (human factors engineering/ergonimics concentration) from the State University of New York at Buffalo and has a B.A. in Psychology. Dr. Kleiner's research interests focus on systems or macro-ergonomics for improved safety, health and performance.
Dr. Thomas B. Leamon
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Tom B. Leamon, Ph.D. was a Vice President of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group and is Director Emeritus of the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety. Dr. Leamon was responsible for the research program in occupational safety and rehabilitation and has published research on integrated approaches to occupational injury and illness, industrial ergonomics, and evaluation of criteria for the prevention of low back pain disability and is currently developing a significant sureveillance study of occupational injury in Viet Nam. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Occupational Safety at the Harvard School of Public Health and is a term member of the NORA liaison committee of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Dr. Leamon is a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (U.K.). He is a board certified Professional Ergonomist, a Chartered Engineer (U.K.), and a European Engineer. Dr. Leamon received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Cranfield.
Dr. James M. Melius
New York State Laborers' Health and Safety Fund
James Melius, M.D., M.P.H. is Director of the New York State Laborers' Health and Safety Trust Fund and Director of Research for the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America. His work focuses on the development and promotion of health and safety programs in the construction industry. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health and is past chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registries He was also a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and of the Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis for CDC. He worked for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1980 to 1987 where he directed NIOSH's main workplace consultation program. From 1987 to 1994, he worked for the New York State Department of Health where he directed environmental and occupational health programs including the development of a network of occupational health clinics.
Dr. Mark S. Redfern
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Redfern is Co-Director of the Medical Virtual Reality Center as well as a William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering. He has appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Otolaryngology, and Rehabilitation Science. He received his BS in Engineering Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1978. In 1980, he earned a certificate in Prosthetics from New York University and worked for 3 years as a Clinical Prosthetist. In 1988 he earned a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan. At Pittsburgh, Dr. Redfern’s research is focused in two areas: human postural control and ergonomics. The major goal of the postural control research is the prevention of falling injuries by investigating the factors that influence balance in older adults and patients with balance disorders. The ergonomic research focus has been in the area of fall prevention and reducing injuries in the workplace through ergonomic redesign.
Dr. Gordon R. Reeve
Ford Motor Company [Retired]
Gordon R. Reeve recently retired from the position of corporate epidemiologist at Ford Motor Company after having spent 21 years in the public health industry. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas School of Public Health in 1982, with major concentrations in epidemiology and toxicology as well as industrial hygiene. He also received a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Texas in 1975, where his focus was occupational health. From 1975 through 1979, he coordinated a program at the University of Texas Cancer Center to evaluate the effectiveness of lung cancer screening for asbestos workers. In the summer of 1979 he began work at NIOSH in Cincinnati. During the next five years, he conducted several occupational cancer studies involving chemical industry workers as well as a major study of heart disease among munitions workers exposed to nitroglycerin. In 1989, Dr. Reeve obtained the position of corporate epidemiologist at Ford Motor Company. At Ford, he conducted occupational health research jointly with the United Auto Workers Union, which involved 800,000 of Ford’s current and former employees. Dr. Reeve completed the major effort of designing a near real time injury surveillance system, which was installed in 57 Ford plant locations in 1994. His research interests and assignments include risk factors associated with acute and cumulative trauma, linkages between injury data and manufacturing quality indicators, and patterns of health care utilization.
Dr. Joseph J. Schwerha
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
Joseph J. Schwerha, M.D., M.P.H. is professor of Occupational Medicine in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh and is the Director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency and the Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response Certificate Programs. Prior to working at the University of Pittsburgh Dr. Schwerha was General Manager – Health Services and Corporate Medical Director at U.S. Steel. His research interests are in Medical Administration and Education as well as all aspects of Environmental Health and Safety and Medical Surveillance. He serves on the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine standing committee on Personal Protective Equipment and the Committee on Training Physicians for Public Health Careers. He holds a bachelors degree in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, Master of Public Health in Environmental Health and Industrial Hygiene from the University of Michigan and a medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is actively involved on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the Official Disability Guidelines. He is a recipient of the Knudsen Award – Highest International Award in Occupational Medicine by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine – 2005.
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Last Updated: 8/24/2007, 03:17 PM
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