4th Quarter General Meeting Zoom Call
Topic: WHWB-US General Meeting: Silica Dust Panel
Time: Oct 20, 2021 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Workplace Health Without Borders--US Branch (WHWB-US) is pleased to invite you to join in our Silica Dust Program.
This is WHWB-US's quarterly general meeting, and we are seeking new and returning members who are interested in health effects and research on quartz exposure. There is no cost to join this discussion.
This webinar will address three contemporary topics:
Silica dust hazards among countertop workers
Risks of silicosis and coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) among US coal miners
Silica and cancer and other disease risks.
Our expert speakers and a brief background are below.
Dr. Robert Harrison joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) faculty in 1984. He founded and directed UCSF Occupational Health Services for more than 15 years, and now is a senior attending physician. He has diagnosed and treated thousands of patients with work- and environmental-induced diseases and injuries. He also directs the worker tracking and investigation program for the California Department of Public Health. Dr. Harrison received his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and his MPH from UC Berkeley. He is board certified in both internal medicine and occupational medicine. He has served on the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board, and authored numerous publications in the area of occupational medicine. He is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF. He has been involved with research related to countertop workers’ exposures to silica dust for the past several years.
Dr. Neomi B. Hall is an investigator at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Respiratory Health Division, Morgantown WV. She has a degree in Epidemiology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, where she focused on genetic epidemiology of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis. She has published extensively on pneumoconiosis and silicosis among Appalachian coal miners. In 2020 she spoke at a joint NIOSH-MSHA workshop—"Silica Exposure and Lung Disease in the Mining Industry.”
Dr. David F. Goldsmith, received his MSPH and PhD degrees n epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has studied the health effects of exposure to silica dust, including cancer, auto-immune diseases, sampling silica dust, and risk assessment for most of his career. Dr. Goldsmith was a member of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph committee that initially labeled silica as a probable carcinogen in 1986 (since 1997 silica has been an IARC type 1 human carcinogen). He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University in Washington DC. He is currently the President of Workplace Health Without Borders-US Branch.
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