Panel Meeting 09-13-2004

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James E. Cone, MD, MPH is an occupational medicine physician who has served since July 2004 as Senior Consultant to the World Trade Center Registry, and since July, 2002 as Director of the Environmental and Occupational Disease Epidemiology Unit in the NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene. He was trained at Stanford (A.B.), University of California, San Francisco (MD), and UC Berkeley (MPH). He completed residencies in occupational medicine and internal medicine, and served 2 years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with CDC, stationed at NIOSH in Cincinnati, OH. In the 1980's, he helped create the interdisciplinary occupational medicine clinic at San Francisco General Hospital, where he has also conducted research, taught and attended on the medical service. In the early 1990's he worked in the private practice of occupational medicine and consulted for several labor unions including the Carpenters Union and the Association of Flight Attendants. From 1994-2002 he was Chief of the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service and Chief of the Occupational Health Branch of the Department of Health Services, State of California, located in Oakland, CA. He has published numerous scientific articles on the health effects of environmental and occupational exposures, particularly following disasters. He has edited several books, including a monograph on Problem Buildings, and a textbook, Occupational Medicine Secrets. [biosketch (PDF, 2pp, 136KB)]

Robin Herbert, MD, is Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Medical Co-Director of the Mount Sinai-Irving J. Selikoff Center of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Co-Director of both the NIOSH-funded World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine as well as the philanthropically funded World Trade Center Health Effects Treatment Program. She will also serve as the Principal Investigator of the Clinical Center at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for the 5 year World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program funded by NIOSH/CDC, which will commence in July 2004.

Dr. Herbert graduated from the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, and completed a residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York. She then completed a residency in Occupational Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

In addition to her current work focusing on identifying and treating WTC-related health effects among World Trade Center responders, Dr. Herbert has extensive experience in the prevention and treatment of work-related muscuoskeletal disorders (WRMDs), having established and directed the Mount Sinai Center for Environmental and Occupational Medicine (COEM) Program to Prevent and Treat Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders. She also has expertise in development of innovative approaches to providing occupational health services to low wage immigrant workers, having established and directed the Occupational Medicine Clinic at the UNITE Union Health Center in Manhattan during the 1990s.

She oversaw development of clinical practice reviews for the diagnosis and treatment of occupational diseases utilizing evidence-based approaches for the New York State Department of Health Occupational Health Clinics Network; these diagnostic and clinical management reviews were disseminated via a special edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine (January 2001) and the New York State Department of Health website.

She has conducted research investigating the experience of workers with work-related carpal tunnel syndrome in the New York Workers' Compensation system and was a Co-Investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson grant to develop innovative programs for the treatment of garment workers with occupational diseases (primarily WMSDs). She subsequently served as a consultant for an evaluation of this project that was comprised of studies of health, social, functional and economic outcomes among garment workers with UE WMSDs.

She has recently served as Co-Investigator on a NIOSH funded study of Work Hours, Musculoskeletal Disorders and CVD Risk which was directed by P. Landsbergis PhD, and directed a needs assessment “Overcoming Barriers to Workplace Health and Safety for Low-Wage Immigrant Women in Queens, N.Y.”

Dr. Howard Kipen is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). He is also Chief of the Division of Occupational Health and Director of the Clinical Center of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), jointly sponsored by the medical school and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He holds additional appointments at the two Universities in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, the School of Public Health, Toxicology, and Environmental Science. He is board certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine, and is a NIOSH-certified B-reader. He has authored over 100 scientific articles, book chapters and reviews on various topics in environmental and occupational health. He is a frequent advisor to the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs on Gulf War Illness issues, and has served on and chaired numerous committees at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science relating to environmental and occupational health. He has received numerous research grants from the federal government, including a pending EPA-funded study of mechanisms of air pollution induced heart disease. He is currently principal investigator on an NIEHS-funded project to examine the relationship between exposure to the dust/smoke plume from the World Trade Center collapse to health outcomes for the population of the NY-NJ-Connecticut region.

Dr. Reibman is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. She is the Director of the New York University/Bellevue Hospital Asthma Center. Dr. Reibman graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital/New York University. She received her training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at New York University/Bellevue Hospital. In collaboration with the New York State Department of Health, Dr. Reibman performed the Centers for Disease Control-funded WTC Residents Respiratory Health study to examine health effects in residents living near the former WTC. she is currently the Principal Investigator of the Clinical Center at New York University/Bellevue Hospital for the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program funded by NIOSH/CDC.

Dr. Reibman's clinical work is focused in the Bellevue Hospital Asthma Clinic, the largest ambulatory program in New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. The focus of Dr. Reibmam's research work has been in environmental influences in asthma. Her research interests are in the control and regulation of airway inflammation and immune responses, with a focus on the the role of environmental pollutants in airway epithelial cell responses. In addition, she is Director of the NYU/Colton Asthma Research program, a research program to enroll participants with asthma to enable the investigation of gene and environmental interactions in urban asthma. She has been an investigator of the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and currently of the National Institutes of Health.