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This is a short clip from the video of the December 2, 2009 honoring of Stephen M. Levin, MD with the international Collegium Ramazzini’s prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in New York.
It has now been well documented that 9/11 workers and volunteers, known as “general responders,” have been exposed to substances and psychological stressors that put these individuals at risk for certain conditions. The World Trade Center Health Program General Responder Consortium provides specialized medical care, mental health care, and benefits counseling to this group of people. In addition, the program performs health surveillance on 9/11 workers and volunteers, to track the illnesses suffered by them over time. This program was created under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, signed into law on January 2, 2011, by President Barack Obama. Title I of the law provides funding for health services, benefits counseling, outreach and education for groups of people – including 9/11 workers and volunteers – affected by the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the US, and also disease surveillance and research related to 9/11 exposures and health within these groups. The Mount Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health are one of seven Clinical Centers of Excellence within the New York/New Jersey area of the federally funded World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), which provides medical and mental health monitoring and treatment for WTC-related health conditions, as well as benefits counseling to 9/11 workers and volunteers who were involved in the rescue, recovery, demolition, and clean-up work after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The Program was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 and is administered by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) within Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Recent studies, including those authored by Mount Sinai researchers, have documented the persistence of physical and mental health problems experienced by 9/11 workers and volunteers that include upper and lower respiratory and gastrointestinal problems, musculoskeletal disorders, mental health conditions, as well as various types of cancer. These individuals require continuous medical care and long-term follow up. For more information, link to: mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/occupational-health/world-trade-center-health-program .
This entire video , Stephen Levin, MD, honored with the Collegium Ramazzini's Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in 2009.(57 minutes) can be viewed at youtu.be/N5-H15WH8Qs : “This prestigious award is given periodically to a scientist or humanist whose studies and achievements have contributed to the protection of workers’ health and the environment,” explained Dr. Philip Landrigan in presenting the award, which has been conferred only five times in the academy’s 27-year history.
Dr. Levin (1941 - 2012) was an internationally known expert in occupational medicine and asbestos related disease and Dr. Levin is the longtime medical director of the Mount Sinai- Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine and prior director of the World Trade Center medical monitoring and treatment programs. He was Professor of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated in 1967 from the New York University School of Medicine. After a decade of practice in General Medicine in Pennsylvania, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine. Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011. He was Co-Director of the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided medical assessments, diagnostic referrals and occupational health education for over 20,000 workers and volunteers who performed rescue and recovery work at the WTC site. He served as Principal Investigator and Director of the Data and Coordination Center for the federally funded WTC Medical Monitoring Program that provides repeat examinations for the WTC responder cohort. Dr. Levin also served on the Science Advisory Board for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). ADAO created a short memorial video tribute to Dr. Levin which can be seen at youtu.be/kMu-lNHNt-o . For more information about the Collegium Ramazzini, visit their website at collegiumramazzini.org/index.asp. Thanks to Dr. Levin's wife, Robin Dintiman, for providing this video and allowing it to be posted.
This is a short clip from the video of the December 2, 2009 honoring of Stephen M. Levin, MD with the international Collegium Ramazzini’s prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in New York.
It has now been well documented that 9/11 workers and volunteers, known as “general responders,” have been exposed to substances and psychological stressors that put these individuals at risk for certain conditions. The World Trade Center Health Program General Responder Consortium provides specialized medical care, mental health care, and benefits counseling to this group of people. In addition, the program performs health surveillance on 9/11 workers and volunteers, to track the illnesses suffered by them over time. This program was created under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, signed into law on January 2, 2011, by President Barack Obama. Title I of the law provides funding for health services, benefits counseling, outreach and education for groups of people – including 9/11 workers and volunteers – affected by the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the US, and also disease surveillance and research related to 9/11 exposures and health within these groups. The Mount Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health are one of seven Clinical Centers of Excellence within the New York/New Jersey area of the federally funded World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), which provides medical and mental health monitoring and treatment for WTC-related health conditions, as well as benefits counseling to 9/11 workers and volunteers who were involved in the rescue, recovery, demolition, and clean-up work after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The Program was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 and is administered by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) within Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Recent studies, including those authored by Mount Sinai researchers, have documented the persistence of physical and mental health problems experienced by 9/11 workers and volunteers that include upper and lower respiratory and gastrointestinal problems, musculoskeletal disorders, mental health conditions, as well as various types of cancer. These individuals require continuous medical care and long-term follow up. For more information, link to: mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/occupational-health/world-trade-center-health-program .
This entire video , Stephen Levin, MD, honored with the Collegium Ramazzini's Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in 2009.(57 minutes) can be viewed at youtu.be/N5-H15WH8Qs : “This prestigious award is given periodically to a scientist or humanist whose studies and achievements have contributed to the protection of workers’ health and the environment,” explained Dr. Philip Landrigan in presenting the award, which has been conferred only five times in the academy’s 27-year history.
Dr. Levin (1941 - 2012) was an internationally known expert in occupational medicine and asbestos related disease and Dr. Levin is the longtime medical director of the Mount Sinai- Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine and prior director of the World Trade Center medical monitoring and treatment programs. He was Professor of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated in 1967 from the New York University School of Medicine. After a decade of practice in General Medicine in Pennsylvania, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine. Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011. He was Co-Director of the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided medical assessments, diagnostic referrals and occupational health education for over 20,000 workers and volunteers who performed rescue and recovery work at the WTC site. He served as Principal Investigator and Director of the Data and Coordination Center for the federally funded WTC Medical Monitoring Program that provides repeat examinations for the WTC responder cohort. Dr. Levin also served on the Science Advisory Board for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). ADAO created a short memorial video tribute to Dr. Levin which can be seen at youtu.be/kMu-lNHNt-o . For more information about the Collegium Ramazzini, visit their website at collegiumramazzini.org/index.asp. Thanks to Dr. Levin's wife, Robin Dintiman, for providing this video and allowing it to be posted.
