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Steven Markowitz, M.D. |
Steven Markowitz, M.D., is a physician specializing in occupational and environmental medicine and epidemiology. Dr. Markowitz is currently Director of Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS) and Professor of Environmental Sciences at Queens College, City University of New York. He is also Adjunct Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, Dr. Markowitz completed residencies in internal medicine and occupational medicine. He is currently board-certified in occupational and environmental medicine and internal medicine.
Dr. Markowitz’s research interests center on occupational and environmental cancer, lung disease, and disease surveillance. Dr. Markowitz is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and is on the editorial board of three other peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization.
Dr. Markowitz currently directs the Worker Health Protection Program, a comprehensive medical screening program in former Department of Energy workers who built our nuclear weapon arsenal over the past 60 years. This program includes the largest and most innovative early lung cancer detection project in occupational health in the country through the application of low dose helical CAT scanning. Dr. Markowitz founded and co-directs the Mount Sinai/Queens College International Training Program in Environmental and Occupational Health, which trains environmental and occupational scientists and physicians from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile in the recognition and control of diseases of occupational and environmental origin.