MASSACHUSETTS
Cambridge Hospital
Occupational & Environmental Health Center
1493 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Clinic Founded 1981
AOEC Contact
Rose Goldman MD, MPH
rgoldman@challiance.org
Phone: (617) 665-1580
Fax: (617) 665-1672
Clinic Description
The Occupational and Environmental Health Center (administrative site) is located at The Cambridge Health Alliance, a community-based teaching network of hospitals and clinical sites which are affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. The Occupational and Environmental Medicine clinical site is located at Assembly Square, 5 Middlesex Avenue, Somerville, MA 02145
Most Common Occupational Diagnoses
Lead and other Metal Poisoning, Solvent Toxicity, Work-related Asthma, Other Lung Problems, Indoor Air Quality Assessment, Repetitive Strain Injuries
Most Common Environmental Diagnoses
Lead and other metal exposures, indoor air complaints (mold).
General Services Provided
On site x-rays, laboratory testing, pulmonary function testing, and hearing testing; Diagnosis of occupational related disease, Diagnosis of environmental related disease, Treatment of cumulative trauma injuries, Screenings, Health and Safety Training, Workplace Evaluations, Independent Medical Exams, Treatment of lead poisoning, legal consultations
Specialized Services
Referrals for: Dermatology, Ergonomics, Psychiatric/psychological Assessment, rehabilitation services (occupational therapy, physical therapy) Neuro-psychological Testing
Non-routine Tests
Referral for XRF Testing
Staff
Rose H. Goldman, MD, MPH, Physician
Stefanos Kales, MD, MPH, Physician
Training Offered
Occupational Medicine Residents, Primary Care/Internal Medicine Residents, Preventive Medicine Residents, Medical Students
Areas of Significant Research/Interest
Lead and other metal Poisoning, Neurotoxicity, other chemical hazards; obstructive sleep apnea and transportation workers; firefighters; Biohazards/Biotechnology
Significant Affiliations
Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Notes
The Occupational and Environmental Health Center clinical sessions are usually held on Thursdays
(Updated 6/12)
Children's Hospital
Pediatric Environmental Health Center
300 Longwood Avenue, 5th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Clinic Founded 1971
AOEC Contact
Alan Woolf, MD, MPH
Megan Sandel, MD
Phone: (617) 355-8177
Fax: (617) 738-0049
Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays from 9AM-Noon
Clinic Description
A full service multi-disciplinary clinic specializing in pediatric environmental health issues. Patients are most often self-referred or referred by their primary care providers or sub-specialists providing their care. More than 700 children and families are seen annually in the clinic. New appointments can usually be accommodated within 1-2 weeks of the request. The clinic also participates in follow-up care for children admitted to the in-patient environmental health service at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
Most Common Diagnosis
Childhood lead poisoning, Building-related illness, Home contamination: well water, nearby toxic waste sites, Autistic spectrum disorder-environmental assessment
General Services Provided
Community-Based Risk Assessment, Patient Assessment
Specialized Services
Allergy/Immunology, Pulmonary Function Testing, Other pediatric consultants, all sub-specialties
Health Educators
Suzanne Giroux
Training Offered
Training in pediatric environmental health is provided to more than fifty trainees (physicians in training) annually during one-month elective rotations. Clinic faculty also participates in training venues for medical students, as well as, health care workers in practice. The PEHSU also sponsors advances clinical fellowship training opportunities in pediatric environmental health for selected pediatricians.
Areas of Significant Research/Interest
Faculty are currently involved in many different research projects in pediatric environmental health, including the diagnosis and management of heavy metal poisoning, epidemiological issues and toxic-surveillance, and the neurological developmental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of environmental toxins.
Significant Affiliations
Regional Poison Control and Prevention System Serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Harvard School of Public Health, Channing Laboratory, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Program in Environmental Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts
(Updated 2/14)
OEHN
Occupational and Environmental Health Network, P.C. ("OEHN")
2 Mount Royal Avenue, Suite 410
Marlborough, Massachusetts 01752
Clinic Founded 2004
AOEC Contact
Thomas Winters, MD, FACOEM, FACPM Principal, President, and Chief Medical Officer
twinters@bidmc.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 754-7260
Fax: (617) 754-7265
Alternate: Karen Sullivan, Executive Director, ksullivan@oehn.net Phone: (508) 251-7260 x 111
Clinic Description
OEHN is an occupational health organization that partners with employers across a broad spectrum of industry and government to provide occupational health services by board certified occupational and environmental medicine physicians and other occupational health and safety professionals. The company offers a diverse portfolio of occupational health solutions including remote and onsite clinical leadership and services, consultation and guidance and program/clinic development and project management. OEHN has a special interest and expertise in providing services to safety sensitive populations such as healthcare workers, researchers and public safety workers. OEHN also provides disability management (utilization review, peer review) services to workers compensation insurers. Primarily servicing the greater Boston area, the group does provide some services on a national level.
Clinics include
OEHN contracts with employers needing Medical Director leadership and other clinical professionals and services. Clients include hospital and corporate employee health programs, community-based occupational health programs, higher education institutions and research facilities, municipalities, unions and more. Physicians and nurses provide onsite leadership and occupational health services either remotely or onsite at the client clinics.
The following is a sample of OEHN clients with occupational health clinics where OEHN physicians provide onsite Medical Director services:
Boston Children’s Hospital Employee Health, Boston, MA
Beth Israel Lahey Healthcare, Employee Health Boston, Milton and Burlington, Needham and the community based occupational health clinic in Needham, MA
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Employee Health, Boston, MA
Steward Healthcare Employee Health, Massachusetts
Boston University Research Occupational Health Program, Boston, MA
Most Common Diagnoses
Back Injuries, Strains/Sprains, Contusions, Lacerations, Bloodborne Pathogen Exposures, Heavy Metal Exposures, Chemical Exposures, Lab Animal Allergies, Burns, Minor Fractures, Repetitive Strain Injuries, Eye Injuries, Occupational Pulmonary Disease
General Services Provided
In clinic Medical Director and nursing services: Treatment of complex work-related injury and illness, appropriate referrals to specialty and ancillary care, implementing early intervention strategies, total disability and absence management, case management development of return to work programs, fitness for duty and return to work evaluations, immunization recommendations, emergency health management and pandemic response, toxicology consultations, health evaluations, exams and screenings, including OSHA and DOT exams, exposure management, medical surveillance program development and management, biological monitoring, best practice SOP and protocol development, workplace hazard and risk evaluation, oversight of clinical staff, regulatory compliance guidance.
Specialized Services
Healthcare employee health and research occupational Health:
OEHN’s niche areas of interest and expertise include leadership and clinical services to hospital employee health departments and research institutions, including universities, freestanding labs, academic hospital research programs, biotech and biopharma. OEHN provides research clients with an Exposure Response Call Center for acute research related injuries and illness, available 24/7, 365 days per year. OEHN also provides support with regulatory compliance, risk assessment and prevention.
Other specialized services include:
Clinical Staff
OEHN Leadership and Center Medical Directors
Thomas H. Winters, MD, FACOEM, FACPM, Principal, President, and Chief Medical Officer
Lee Okurowski, MD, MPH, MBA, Principal, CEO
Deborah N. Barbeau, MD, PhD, MSPH, Medical Director
Gabriel Gaviola MD, MPH
Nurses: Provide both onsite and remote occupational health services
Tracie Ercolini RN
Pat Urick, NP
Other OEHN Professionals:
David Rosmarin, MD, Forensic Psychiatrist
David Nowell, PhD, psychologist
Other Network Clinicians
Panel of occupational and environmental medicine physicians and other specialists including Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Chiropractors, PT, OT and other clinicians who provide medical record reviews, utilization reviews and appeals for workers compensation Insurers.
Training Offered
OEHN clinicians provide training to occupational health professionals at our client sites including such topics as BBP Exposures, Hazmat, Select Agents, animal bites, biosafety training, workers compensation first aid model.
Community training: OEHN clinicians are involved with planning and delivery of presentations on a variety of occupational and environmental medicine topics at the annual New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM) conference and The Louis H Millender Occupational Health conference in MA. They also provide trainings and presentations to insurance company case managers and others.
Doctors’ Winters, Okurowski and Barbeau are preceptors for clinical rotations for the Harvard School of Public Health Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program and present Grand Rounds on a variety of topics.
Areas of Significant Research/Interest
Clinical Outcomes, epidemiology- bio-hazard science, Infectious Disease, toxicology, biological hazards, reproductive outcomes in biotechnology, influenza vaccine studies.
Significant Affiliations
Harvard School of Public Health Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency Program
Updated 6/23