Senior Scientist and Associate Director of the Environmental Health and Safety Division at Environmental Health and Engineering, Inc. (EH&E). Director of Environmental Affairs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Has 30 years of experience in environmental. Respiratory and air quality issues, in addition to experience in safety and regulatory compliance. Specialty areas include microbiological agents, airborne particulates, and non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. Lectures on indoor air quality and environmentally related lung disease.

Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology and Director of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology (EOME) program at the Harvard School of Public Health. Directs both the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Kindred Hospital Northeast—Braintree, MA and the Occupational Medicine Section of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Major research interests include occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology. Has led efforts in the development and application of biomarkers, performed population studies of acute and chronic diseases, including lung, bladder, esophageal, and skin cancers, and investigated, from an environmental-and occupational-health perspective, tumors of the central nervous system, obstructive airway diseases, pneumoconiosis, and acute lung injury.

Industrial Hygiene and Safety Consultant. Board Certified in Occupational Health Nursing and in Occupational and Environmental Health. President, Massachusetts Association of Occupational Health Nurses, 2004-2007. Has 30 years experience in the nursing field, 22 of which are in the energy and utilities industry as a Consultant, a Utility Safety Manager and Occupational Health Nurse Manager. Established compliance controls and biological monitoring programs for asbestos, lead, silica, confined space safety, ergonomics management, scaffold safety, comprehensive health promotion and wellness for industry.

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Physiology) and Chief Pulmonary Physiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Has been involved with clinical pulmonary lab operation for 30 years. Studies ventilatory mechanics, focusing on airway function, and chest wall-lung interaction in ARDS. Participated in development of American Thoracic Society laboratory proficiency guidelines for pulmonary function testing.

Professor in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene (CIH) by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Has worked in occupational and environmental health research and practice with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Cancer, Florence, Italy. Research interests in occupational and environmental exposure assessment, sustainable production, and work environment policy and practice.