Leadership & Faculty

Program Leadership

Stefanos Kales, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM (OEMR 1992)

  • Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency
  • Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Division Chief of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance
  • Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Areas of specialty: Firefighter’s health; Hazardous materials and chemical emergencies; Heavy metals; Predictors of cardiovascular outcomes.
  • Email: skales@hsph.harvard.edu
Photo of Justin Yang Justin Yang, MD, MPH (OEMR 2019)

  • Assistant Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency
  • Medical Director, Employee and Occupational Health, Atrius Health/ Harvard Vanguard Medical Association
  • Medical Director, Quit Genius
  • Clinical Instructor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
  • Areas of specialty: employee wellness and mental health, digital health, substance use disorder
  • Email: justin.yang@mail.harvard.edu
Annie Rodriguez Program Coordinator Annie Rodriguez, MA

 

Program Faculty

David Christiani photo David Christiani, MD, MPH, MS (OEMR 1980)

  • Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Director, Harvard Education and Research Center
  • Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Areas of specialty: Occupational diseases; Biomarkers; Molecular epidemiology

 

Rose Goldman photo Rose Goldman, MD, MPH (OEMR 1980)

  • Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Director of Faculty Affairs, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance
  • Areas of specialty: Neurotoxicity; Metals; Pediatric Environmental Health; Repetitive strain injuries; Medical Education
Carolyn Langer photo Carolyn Langer, MD, JD, MPH (OEMR 1993)

  • Instructor in Occupational Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • SVP and Chief Medical Officer, Fallon Health
  • Areas of specialty: Occupational health policy and regulations
David Wegman photo David H. Wegman, MD

  • Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health
  • Professor of Work Environment, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Gregory Wagner photo Gregory Wagner, MD

  • Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health
Ted Courtney photo Ted Courtney, MS, CSP

  • Instructor in Injury, Safety, and Ergonomics
  • President, TKC Consulting LLC
  • Vice President, Concorde Health, Inc.
  • Areas of specialty: Occupational injury
  • Email: tcourtne@hsph.harvard.edu
Glenn Pransky photo Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH

  • Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Environmental Health
  • Associate Professor in Family and Community Medicine and Quantitative Health Sciences, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Areas of specialty: Work disability prevention, health and productivity, physician health and well-being, workers’ compensation health care
Sam Forman photo Sam Forman, MD, MPH, MSOccH, MBA, FACOEM

  • Visiting Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health; President, Oak and Ivy Health Systems, Inc.
  • Areas of specialty: Initiative for Productivity and Health Management (IPHM) for employed populations and their dependents; Population based disease management and wellness programs; Pneumoconioses; Explosives toxicology; History of medicine and science in societal context
Jack Dennerlein photo Jack Tigh Dennerlein, SMME, PhD

  • Adjunct Professor of Ergonomics and Safety
  • Associate Director, Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Professor in Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
  • Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • Areas of specialty: Total Worker Health® Prevention of Work-related musculoskeletal disorders; Occupational Biomechanics, Worker safety, health, and well-being.
Eileen McNeely photo Eileen McNeely, RNP, MS, PhD

  • Instructor in Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program
  • Founder and Executive Director, Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE)
  • Principal Investigator, Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study
  • Principal Investigator, Garment Factory Workers’ Well-being
  • Co-Investigator, RWJF Engaging Business in a Culture of Health
  • Co-Investigator, U.S. State Department, Use of Blockchain Technology To Capture Working Conditions and Worker Impacts in the Supply Chain
  • Principal Investigator, Understanding the Future of Work after COVID
  • Areas of specialty: Sustainability of health and human capital in the workplace; Environmental epidemiology; Occupational and community health; Health promotion and work as a platform to improve well-being; Health services management and policy; Health effects of work and workplace culture (work structures, organizations, re-engineering); Quality of worklife; Injury prevention; Musculoskeletal injuries; Aviation health
Jefrrey Vogel photo Jeffrey Vogel, MD, MPH (OEMR 2016)

  • Attending Physician, Occupational Health, Cambridge Health Alliance
  • Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School
  • Founder & CEO, Concorde Health, Inc.
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Robert Spielvogel, MS, CIH, CSP
  • Instructor, Occupational Safety and Injury Prevention
  • President, Robert Spielvogel and Associates, Inc.
  • Areas of specialty: Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Environmental Regulatory Compliance, OSHA Compliance
Silhouette Michael Erdil, MD
\David Lombardi photo David Lombardi, PhD

  • Instructor in Environmental Health; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Silhouette Murray Mittleman, MD, DrPH

  • Professor of Epidemiology
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Faculty Director and Chair, MPH Program HSPH, MPH Concentration in Quantitative Methods
Silhouette Elise Pechter, MPH, CIH

  • Occupational Health Surveillance Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Silhouette Glorian Sorenson, PhD, MPH

  • Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Private Investigator, HSPH Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing
  • Director, Center for Community-based Research, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Silhouette James Stewart, PhD, CIH

  • Instructor in Industrial Hygiene in the Environmental Science and Engineering Program; Research Associate
Photo of Ann Backus Ann Backus, MS

  • Instructor in Occupational Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

Clinical Rotation Preceptors

Christine David photo M. Christine David, DO, MPH (OEMR 2012)

  • Senior Physician and Medical Site Leader of P&G Gillette, Massachusetts
  • P&G Medical Director of Global Grooming
  • Instructor in Corporate Medicine rotation
  • Areas of interest: Ergonomics, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Employee Health and Wellness in the corporate setting

Laura Kogelman photo

Laura Kogelman, MD, FIDSA

  • Director, Traveler’s Health Service, Tufts Medical Center
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Pamela Sheinman photo

Pamela Sheinman, MD

  • Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
Photo of Tom Winters Thomas Winters, MD

  • Preceptor, Occupational and Environmental Health Network
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Photo of Deb Barbeau Deborah Barbeau, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, FACOEM (OEMR 2013)

  • Medical Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Network (OEHN)
  • Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Photo of Lee Okurowski Lee Okurowski, MD, MPH, MBA

  • Preceptor, Occupational and Environmental Health Network (OEHN)