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STAR Grantee Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
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(September, 2004) STAR grantee Morton Lippmann, PhD, CIH, recently received the "2004 Meritorious Achievement Award" from the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). ACGIH presents this award to a member who has made an "outstanding, long-term contribution to the field of occupational health and industrial hygiene."
Dr. Lippmann is Professor of Environmental Medicine at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. As a leader in the fields of human exposure assessment, dosimetry, and air pollution health effects, Dr. Lippmann's work has greatly advanced the scientific basis for risk assessment of airborne toxicants. Much of his research has focused on ozone, sulfuric acid, and asbestos. As a member, chairman, and consultant of the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), he played a key role in advising the EPA on each revision of the National Ambient Air Standards for Ozone and Particulate Matter (PM) over the last 25 years.
Dr. Lippmann is currently conducting animal inhalation studies involving subchronic exposures to concentrated ambient particles. His previous work includes investigations that identified a relationship between ambient levels of ozone and decreased lung function in both children at summer camp and healthy adults exercising outside. He also documented ozone-related increases in symptoms and medication usage in asthmatic children.
As part of the STAR program, Dr. Lippmann is Director of the EPA Center for Particulate Matter Health Effects Research at New York University. The Center was established in 1999 in an effort to determine the biological basis for the increased rates of morbidity and mortality associated with ambient PM. Specifically, the Center's mission is to develop and conduct a comprehensive research program focused on the identification and characterization of the physical and chemical properties of PM that adversely affect human health. Examples of Center research include studies that: (a) evaluate how airway variability in individuals affects PM deposition, dose, and, therefore, susceptibility; (b) determine whether physiochemical characteristics of combustion-generated PM influence its toxicity; c) investigate whether coexposure to ozone exacerbates the acute cardiopulmonary effects of exposure to PM; and (d) quantify error in exposure assessment at air monitoring sites. Before becoming Director of the Center, EPA awarded Dr. Lippmann a STAR grant for his research on the "Development of a Continuous Monitoring System for PM10 and components of PM2.5."
Dr. Lippmann is the recipient of numerous awards. In 1993, ACGHI honored him with the "Herbert E. Stokinger Award," which it gives to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the broad field of industrial and environmental toxicology. Dr. Lippmann also has received the American Industrial Hygiene Association "Donald E. Cummings Award," the American Association for Aerosol Research ADavid Sinclair Award," and the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene "Henry F. Smyth, Jr. Award."
In addition to his position as the Director of the EPA Center for Particulate Matter Health Effects Research, Dr. Lippmann is the Human Exposure and Health Effects Director for the NIEHS Center in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU. He is also Chair of the External Scientific Advisory Committee for the Lovelace National Environmental Respiratory Center in Albuquerque. Dr. Lippmann has served as a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board Executive Committee (2000-2001), the EPA Advisory Committee on Indoor Air Quality and Total Human Exposure (1987-1993), and the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (1983-1987). He is Past-President of the International Society of Exposure Analysis (1994-1995) and Past-Chair of ACGIH (1982-1983).
Dr. Lippmann received his PhD in Environmental Health Science from New York University in 1967, where he has held a faculty appointment since that time. He earned an MS in Industrial Hygiene from Harvard University in 1955, and a BChE in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union in1954. Dr. Lippmann has authored or co-authored more than 280 research articles, and is the lead author of two books, Environmental Toxicants: Human Exposures and Their Health Effects, 2nd Ed., Wiley (2000), and Environmental Health Science: Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Chemical and Physical Health Hazards, Oxford (2003).
For more information, contact Estella Waldman at waldman.estella@epa.gov.