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The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Some areas of current research include:

• Occupational Respiratory Morbidity: An industry-wide exposure assessment and respiratory morbidity study of the carbon black industry. Chronic beryllium disease is another area of investigation.
• Occupational Mortality Studies: Study of the relationship of asbestos, SV40 infection, and malignant mesothelioma.
• Health Services Research: Application of new service delivery models, particularly primary care based computer assisted interview and recommendation generation, is investigated. In addition, collaboration with several studies of musculoskeletal disorder treatment.
• Medical Informatics: Several projects involve the development of artificial intelligence / intelligent database approaches to disease recognition and systematic surveillance methodology. This includes the development of knowledge engineering approaches as well as field application trials.
• Workers' Compensation: The application of systematic approaches to causation assessment is studied.

Research support at the current time includes funding from National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control, National Cancer Institute, Department of Energy, and private sources.