James Whittenberger, who passed away on March 17, 2007, was honored on September 28 at a symposium on environmental genetics and epigenetics in Snyder Auditorium. Members of the Whittenberger family were in attendance. Whittenberger chaired the Department of Physiology at HSPH for 32 years from 1948 to 1980.
In foreground, Douglas Dockery, chair of the Department of Environmental Health. In background is Robert Wright
Speakers included James Ware, HSPH Dean for Academic Affairs; Douglas Dockery, chair, Department of Environmental Health, HSPH; Andrea Baccarelli, visiting scholar in the Department of Environmental Health; Robert Wright, research director and co-fellowship director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Subspecialty Unit at Children's Hospital Boston; and David Schwartz, MPH 85, chief, Laboratory of Environmental Lung Disease, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Senior Advisor to the NIH on Environmental Health Science.
Copyright, 2007, President and Fellows of Harvard College
