Academic Presentations

2022

Title: Update on Cardiovascular Risk and Medical Surveillance for Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Grand rounds
Organization/Location: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Title: Update on Cardiovascular Risk and Medical Surveillance for Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington

Title: Update on Cardiovascular Risk and Medical Surveillance for Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

2021

Title: Cardiometabolic Risk and Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighting & Law Enforcement: State of the Science
Type of Presentation: Invited Occupational Medicine Didactic
Organization/Location: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Occupational Medicine Residency Program and the New York-New Jersey Education and Research Center, NYC, NY.

Title: “The Potential Impact of Healthy Lifestyles on Public Safety Workers- what we have learned from Over 25 Years of Research”
Type of Presentation: Closing Keynote Presentation
Organization/Location: Third International Symposium on Health and Physical Fitness among Public Safety Workers and II Regional Symposium on Physical Activity and Health – Center-West, University of Brasilia, Department of Physical Education, Brazilian Federal District, Brazil

Title: “Healthy Lifestyle and Public Safety Workers”
Type of Presentation: Visiting Professor (Webinar)
Organization/Location: Health Promotion, International PhD Students Webinar. Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

2020

Title: Feeding America’s Bravest: Survival Mediterranean Style: Lifestyle Countermeasures for the Workplace and Community
Type of Presentation: Invited Guest Lecture
Organization/Location: Clinical Nutrition Research, Boston University School of Public Health, Master’s program in Nutrition & Metabolism

Title: Survival Mediterranean Style: Lifestyle Countermeasures for Fire Fighters
Type of Presentation: Invited Plenary Presentation
Organization/Location: National Firefighter Cancer Symposium 2020, Miami, Florida (University of Miami- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center)

2018

Title: Survival Mediterranean Style: Year One of a Mediterranean Nutrition Intervention in US Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Invited Plenary Speaker
Organization/Location: Olympia Health and Nutrition Awards 2018, World Olive Council for Health, European Inter-regional Mediterranean ARISTOIL program & Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, & Natural Products Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Title: Sudden Cardiac Death in Firefighters and Police Officers: Epidemiology & Pathophysiology
Type of Presentation: Invited Seminar
Organization/Location: Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Sezione di Scienze e Tecnologia di Medicina di Laboratorio, Faculty of Medicine, Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.

Title: Applied Public Health: Lifestyle Changes to Improve the Health of the US Fire Service
Type of Presentation: Invited Visiting Professor Lecture in HP131: Introduction to Public Health
Organization/Location: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Title: Survival Mediterranean Style: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in the US Fire Service
Type of Presentation: Invited Webinar
Organization/Location: Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Indianapolis

Title: Feeding America’s Bravest:  Survival Mediterranean Style in the Fire Service
Type of Presentation: Visiting Professor
Organization/Location: Occupational Health Colloquium, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut

Title: Sudden Cardiac Death in a Volunteer Fire Chief
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Title: Sudden Cardiac Death among Firefighters and Police Officers
Type of Presentation: Special Invited Seminar
Organization/Location: Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

2017

Title: “Feeding America’s Bravest-Survival Mediterranean Style,” A Randomized Cluster Trial of Mediterranean Diet Intervention in US Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Plenary Talk
Organization/Location: Mediterranean Diet & Health. Initiative for Productivity & Health Management, Mediterranean Diet Roundtable, The Cooking Odyssey, Halkidiki, Greece.

Title: Mediterranean Diet Intervention in US Firefighters: “Feeding America’s Bravest-Survival Mediterranean Style”
Type of Presentation: Invited Plenary Speaker
Organization/Location: Health Matters Convention, 4th Oleocanthal International Congress, Oleocanthal International Society, Malaga, Spain

Title: Intervención Mediterránea en Bomberos Estadounidenses (Mediterranean Intervention in US Firefighters)
Type of Presentation: Visiting Professor Conference (in Spanish)
Organization/Location: Institut de Recerca en Nutrició i Seguretat Alimentària (Institute for Nutrition Research and Food Safety), Natural Anti-Oxidants Group, School of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Title: Cardiovascular Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death in Firefighting and Law Enforcement
Type of Presentation: Keynote Lecture
Organization/Location: Tenth Annual Day in Occupational Medicine, Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Canada

Title: Epidemiology of cardiovascular risk associated with firefighting and law enforcement, and their association with physical fitness
Type of Presentation: Keynote Presentation
Organization/Location: First International Symposium on Health and Physical Fitness among Public Safety Workers, University of Brasilia, Department of Physical Education, Brazilian Federal District, Brazil

Title: Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Cardiac Enlargement in Public Safety Personnel
Type of Presentation: Invited Presentation
Organization/Location: Public Safety Medicine Section, American College of Occupational Medicine, American Occupational Health Conference, Denver, Colorado

2016

Title: Cardiovascular Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death in Law Enforcement and Firefighting
Type of Presentation: Plenary Speaker
Organization/Location: Occupational Medicine Specialists of Canada (OMSOC), 2016 OMSOC Annual Scientific Conference, Newton, MA

Title: Occupational Risk in Sudden Cardiac Death in EMS Providers, Fire Fighters, and First Responders
Type of Presentation: Invited Visiting Professor Lecture
Organization/Location: Seoul National University Medical School, Seoul, South Korea

Title: Burns in US Firefighters: Trends and Prevention
Type of Presentation: Keynote Lecture
Organization/Location: Korean Burn Society Annual Conference, Seoul, South Korea

Title: Sudden Cardiac Death in a Corrections Officer
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Title: Mediterranean Diet for Workplace Health Promotion: “Feeding America’s Bravest” Trial
Type of Presentation: Special Invited Seminar
Organization/Location: Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California.

2015

Title: Cardiovascular Disease & Health Among First Responders
Type of Presentation: Invited Speaker
Organization/Location: Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in a Police Officer
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Title: Cardiovascular Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death in Law Enforcement and Firefighting: from Epidemiology to Risk Stratification and Fitness for Duty
Type of Presentation: Plenary lecture
Organization/Location: Cardiovascular Health and Disease: Occupational and Environmental Factors Conference, University of California, San Francisco, California

Title: Cardiovascular Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death in Law Enforcement and Firefighting
Type of Presentation: Visiting Professor
Organization/Location: Occupational & Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds, Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington

2014

Title: Extreme Values, Extreme Situations: Hypertension in Firefighting & Law Enforcement
Type of Presentation: Invited Speaker
Organization/Location: Israeli Society of Hypertension, Annual Winter Meeting, Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv, Israel (Israeli Society of Hypertension, Israeli Family Physicians Association)

Title: Putting Your Heart into Your Work (Cardiovascular Outcomes and Work)
Type of Presentation: Plenary Lecture
Organization/Location: Primary Occupational Healthcare Conference 2014, Dalhousie Medical School, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Title: Causation of On-Duty Cardiovascular Events Among Firefighters and Law Enforcement Officers
Type of Presentation: Invited Speaker
Organization/Location: Public Safety Session, American Occupational Health Conference, American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, San Antonio, Texas (Public Safety Medicine Section of ACOEM)

Title: Cardiovascular Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death in Law Enforcement and Fire Personnel
Type of Presentation: Visiting Professor
Organization/Location: Occupational Health Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut

Title: Work Causation in Cardiovascular Cases
Type of Presentation: Panelist and Case Discussant
Organization/Location: New Challenges and New Solutions Conference, Waltham, Massachusetts (Occupational and Environmental Health Network and the Lou Millender Foundation)

Title: Understanding Cardiovascular Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death in the Fire Service
Type of Presentation: Visiting Professor
Organization/Location: Special Seminar, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indianapolis, Indiana (Indiana Health/Indiana University)

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighting and Law Enforcement:  Journey from Resident Project to State of the Science
Type of Presentation: Keynote address
Organization/Location: Harriet -Hardy Award. New England College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine Annual Conference, Newton, Massachusetts.

2013

Title: Translating Firefighting Cardiovascular Epidemiology into Clinical Evaluations
Type of Presentation: Research Presentation
Organization/Location: “Cardiovascular Physiology & Disease in Firefighting: Translating Recent Research to Clinical Practice,” symposium hosted by Cambridge Health Alliance in Orlando, FL

Title: Translating Firefighting Cardiovascular Epidemiology into Clinical Evaluations
Type of Presentation: Plenary lecture
Organization/Location: Cardiovascular Physiology & Disease in Firefighting: Translating Recent Research to Clinical Practice Symposium, Cambridge Health Alliance, Orlando, Florida (Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge Medical Care Foundation, Harvard School of Public Health, International Association of Fire Fighters, International Association of Fire Chiefs, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Public Safety Medical, Masimo Corporation)

2012

Title: High hsCRP is Associated with Reduced Lung Function in Structural Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Poster Presentation and Discussion Session
Organization/Location: 2012 American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, San Francisco, CA

Title: Cardiomegaly, Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Sudden Cardiac Death in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Grand rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Title: Left Ventricular Hypertrophy & Cardiomegaly in Firefighter Sudden Death
Type of Presentation: Research Presentation
Organization/Location: New England College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine Annual Conference, Newton, Massachusetts (Environmental Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health)

2011

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters: Scientific Approaches to Causality and Prevention
Type of Presentation: Invited Occupational Medicine Grand Rounds, Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) Education Program
Organization/Location: Gage Occupational Health Unit, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Title: Physical Fitness and Cardiovascular Risk
Type of Presentation: Featured Presentation
Organization/Location: Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Research & Development Grant Proposals in the “Assistance to Firefighter Grants” Program, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, New York, NY

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters and Law Enforcement: State of the Scientific Research and Clinical Implications
Type of Presentation: Scientific Course Session
Organization/Location: American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC), American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), Washington, DC

Title: Disaster Response: Lessons Learned Since 9/11
Type of Presentation: Expert Panel Member, Live and On-Demand Webcast
Organization/Location: The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Title: Recognizing and Managing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

2010

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in the US Fire Service: Current Epidemiology and the Future Role of Fitness Testing
Type of Presentation: Plenary Lecture via video-link
Organization/Location: Firefighter Cardiovascular Health & Safety Research Summit 2010, Illinois Fire Service Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Title: Exercise Tolerance as a Predictor of Firefighters’ Future Risks
Type of Presentation: Principal Investigator Presentation
Organization/Location: Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Research & Development Grant Proposals in the “Assistance to Firefighter Grants” Program, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, Chicago, IL

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in the Fire Service: State of the Science
Type of Presentation: Invited Seminar
Organization/Location: Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Title: Emergency Duties and Heart Disease Deaths in US Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Invited Journal Club Presentation
Organization/Location: Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in the US Fire Service: Past, Present & Future
Type of Presentation: Invited Speaker
Organization/Location: New England College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (NECOEM), Annual Conference, Newton, MA

2009

Title: Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Firefighters by Cardio-Respiratory Fitness
Type of Presentation: Principal Investigator Presentation
Organization/Location: Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Research & Development Grant Proposals in the “Assistance to Firefighter Grants” Program, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC

Title: The Obesity Epidemic and U.S. Emergency Responders
Type of Presentation: Plenary Talk – via video link
Organization/Location: Guidelines for the Prevention of Obesity in the Workplace, Workshop, Larnaca, Cyprus, Sponsored by the European Union

Title: Coronary Heart Disease in Firefighters: State of the Science
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Family Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Tufts Medical School, Malden, MA

Title: Associations of BMI with Self Perceptions of Weight Status among Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Research Presentation
Organization/Location: Obesity 2009, Washington, DC

2008

Title: Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Principal Investigator Presentation
Organizations/Location: Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Research & Development Grant Proposals in the “Assistance to Firefighter Grants” Program, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC

Title: Hypertension in Police, Firefighters and Other Emergency Responders
Type of Presentation: Special Invited Presentation
Organizations/Location: Hypertension Conference, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Title: The Obesity Epidemic and Future Emergency Responders
Type of Presentation: Research Presentation, Competitive Submisssion
Organizations/Location: American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC), American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), New York, NY

Title: Cardiovascular Disease In Emergency Responders
Type of Presentation: State of the Science Review
Organization/Location: American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC), American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), New York, NY

Title: Blood Pressure in Emergency Responders: The Case for Better Control
Type of Presentation: Invited Presentation
Organizations/Location: Stroke 2008, International Conference on Hypertension, Lipids, Diabetes, and Stroke Prevention, Prague, Czech Republic

2007

Title: On-duty Coronary Heart Disease Events in Firefighters: Predictors of Fatality
Type of Presentation: Pilot Project Symposium
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard-NIOSH Educational Resource Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Title: Hypertension in Emergency Responders
Type of Presentation: Grand Rounds
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Title: Emergency Duties and Heart Disease Deaths in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Research Presentation
Organization/Location: New England College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (NECOEM), Annual Conference, Bedford, MA

Title: Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Invited Presentation
Organization/Location: Department of Environmental Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

Title: Public Safety Workers: the Case for Improved Blood Pressure Control
Type of Presentation: Invited Presentation
Organization/Location: Worklife 2007: Protecting and Promoting Worker Health: A National Symposium, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/CDC, Bethesda, MD

Title: Heart Disease in Firefighters
Type of Presentation: Invited Presentation
Organization/Location Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI