| | OEM faculty are full-time faculty in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine, as well as affiliated faculty at rotation sites. This allows us to capitalize on the great breadth and depth of occupational and environmental medicine expertise in the Baltimore-Washington DC area. The faculty is engaged in a wide range of clinical, research, and management activities as described below. Hopkins Faculty 
| Virginia Weaver, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Occupational & Environmental Health; Director, Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency
Dr. Weaver is board-certified in internal medicine and preventive (occupational) medicine. Her research focuses on biomarkers in occupational epidemiology and surveillance; nephrotoxicants, particularly lead and cadmium; renal early biologic effect markers; and biomarkers for benzene exposure. Clinical interests include medical surveillance for exposed populations. | | | 
| Brian S. Schwartz, MD, MS
Professor of Occupational & Environmental Health; Deputy Director, Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency
Dr. Schwartz is board-certified in internal medicine and preventive (occupational) medicine. His research interests include occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology; use of biomarkers of exposure, dose, health effects, and susceptibility in epidemiologic studies; causes of adult cognitive and CNS dysfunction, especially chemicals (e.g., lead, mercury, PCBs) and gene-environment interaction; use of neuroimaging in assessment of CNS health in epidemiologic studies. Clinical interests include medical surveillance and causation determination for exposed individuals and populations. | | | | |
Jacqueline Agnew, MPH, PhD
Professor, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health; Director, Education and Research Center in Occupational Health and Safety
Interests include risk factors for occupational musculoskeletal disorders and measures of occupational stress. Daniel J. Barnett, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health
Interests include all-hazards public health emergency readiness and response. Edward J. Bernacki, MD, MPH
Executive Director of Health, Safety & Environment and Director of the Division of Occupational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University; Associate Professor and Director, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine
Interests include ergonomics and flight medicine. Ana Navas-Acien, MD, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health
Interests include environmental epidemiology with a particular emphasis on cardiovascular effects of arsenic, selenium, lead, cadmium and other trace metals. Cindy Parker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health
Interests include working with communities to solve local and global environmental problems, sustainable development issues, risk communication, and public health emergency readiness and response. Paul Strickland, PhD
Professor and Director, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health; Director, Occupational & Environmental Health Doctoral Program
Interests include assessment of carcinogen metabolites and genetic damage in human populations with known or suspected exposure to various occupational or environmental carcinogens. Preceptor Faculty Margit L. Bleecker, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Neurology (COEN), Baltimore, Maryland
COEN specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic disorders related to neurotoxic exposures and ergonomic stressors (repetitive strain injuries). Patricia Bray, MD, MPH
Medical Officer, Office of Occupational Medicine, OSHA
The Office of Occupational Medicine provides medical, toxicologic and epidemiologic support for a wide range of OSHA activities. These include the Standards development process, assistance to OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officers in the field, work on OSHA publications for workers, employees, the public, and other Federal agencies; and training through the Occupational Medicine Elective. Richard Duffy, MSc - Assistant to the General President for Health, Safety and Medicine; Jim Brinkley - Director of Occupational Health and Safety; Ron McGraw
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) represents 274,000 full-time professional fire fighters and paramedics in the U.S. and Canada. The IAFF's Department of Occupational Health and Safety is dedicated to providing fire fighters and emergency medical responders with the most current information on how the work environment affects their health. Melissa Frisch, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Safety and Employee Health, University of Maryland Medical Center
Interests include public safety medicine; institutional bioterrorism preparedness; medical surveillance; and medical center occupational safety and health. Stella Hines, MD, MSPH Assistant Professor, Occupational Health Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Interests include occupational lung diseases (including asbestos-related lung disease; silicosis; black lung; chronic beryllium disease; occupational asthma; reactive airways dysfunction syndrome; occupational COPD; and bronchiolitis obliterans); longitudinal pulmonary function analysis; health effects of nanomaterials; heavy metal toxicity; public health and policy; and critical care medicine Robert Lavin, MD
Assistant Professor, Rehabilitation Division, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland Medical Center
Director, Chronic Pain Management Service, VA Maryland Health Care System
Interests as a physiatrist include neurological and musculoskeletal issues of occupational medicine, orthopaedic rehabilitation, spinal injection procedures, electrodiagnosis, and pain management. He primarily sees patients with neck, back, and neuropathic pain, and musculoskeletal (repetitive use) syndromes. Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH
Professor and Director, Occupational Health Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Interests include healthcare workers, metals and clinical toxicology, occupational reproductive toxicants, occupational exposure to hazardous drugs, and depleted uranium toxicity. Atkinson Longmire, MD
Director, Occupational Medicine Elective, Office of Occupational Medicine, OSHA
The Office of Occupational Medicine provides medical, toxicologic and epidemiologic support for a wide range of OSHA activities. These include the Standards development process, assistance to OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officers in the field, work on OSHA publications for workers, employees, the public, and other Federal agencies; and training through the Occupational Medicine Elective. |
