January 24, 2025
Dennis Casserly, PhD, (MS ’76 and PhD ‘79), is the 2024 William D. Wagner Award recipient. Established in 2003 by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, the annual award is presented to a person in the field of national and international worker health and safety who is an outstanding example of commitment and dedication to creating and disseminating occupational exposure values.
January 17, 2025
In December, the Bhojani Visiting Scholars Endowment Lecture Series hosted Alberto Caban-Martinez, PhD, DO, MPH of the University of Miami. Dr. Caban-Martinez presented "Turning Up the Heat on Cancer: Insights from the National Firefighter Cancer Initiative".
January 17, 2025
Faiyaz Bhojani, MD, DrPH, professor for the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UTHealth Houston, was elected Vice President of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
December 13, 2024
Anna Gitter, PhD, joined the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health in July 2023 as an assistant professor in the environmental and occupational health sciences program. In this "Water Talk", Dr. Gitter discusses groundwater as a drinking water source. Stay tuned to SWCOEH.org for more "Water Talks" with Dr. Gitter.
October 11, 2024
In this "Water Talk", Dr. Anna Gitter discusses groundwater as a drinking water source.
October 11, 2024
Anna Holdiman, a NIOSH trainee in Occupational Epidemiology in the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, earned a scholarship to attend New York University’s Center for Opioid Epidemiology Polysubstance Use Symposium in October.
September 9, 2024
Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, helped lead the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) residencies and fellowships into a new era. Beginning this fall, OEM residencies across the United States will participate in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
August 21, 2024
Lucy Watson-Cook, a NIOSH-funded Trainee in Industrial Hygiene (IH), is spending the summer of 2024 as an intern with Citgo. Based at Citgo's corporate headquarters in Houston, Watson-Cook has had the opportunity to travel to several of Citgo’s refineries and lubricant plants to complete fieldwork.
