Slides and Slide Talks

These materials are primarily geared for a physician-medical student audience. Where indicated, presentations are complete, free standing medical grand rounds-seminar presentation, with handout, citations and script.

Agricultural Lung Disease
57 slides, no text

David Schwartz, MD, MPH., University of Iowa

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
38 slides, no text

Mark Upfal, MD, MPH, Wayne State University
Useful to augment a talk on ADA. Slides illustrate in outline form some of the main areas of concern such as physical and mental impairments, what is not an impairment, limitations, reasonable accommodations, etc.

Arsenic Toxicity
47 slides, w/ATSDR document on subject.

William B. Patterson, MD, MPH, New England Health Center, Wilmington, MA
Presentation discusses the environmental & occupational aspects of exposure, the biological fate, and the health effects and treatment of acute and chronic poisoning. Also includes a clinical evaluation based on lab tests and biological monitoring.

Asbestos and the Family Practitioner
37 slides with slide descriptions

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Basic introductory talk for primary care practitioners on health effects of asbestos, OSHA-required screening evaluations, and common questions which these practitioners face. Includes copy of handout, script, citations and references.

Asbestos-Teaching Module

William Beckett, MD, The American College of Radiology
Slides feature several pathology examples and 20 x-rays which illustrate various radiologic examples of asbestos-induced diseases, including asbestosis, pleural effusion, plaques, mesothelioma, and lung cancer with detailed explanation of each entity.

Asthma, Welding, Raynauds, Ozone & Metal Fume Fever
14 slides, no text

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University
Several pictures and text slides on each topic.

Basic Ergonomics
8 slides and slide descriptions

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Brief review of key concepts in ergonomics. Several references from medical literature included.

Cancer-General Information
13 slides and outline

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University
General information on work-related cancers, and screening for cancer in the workplace.

Cancer & Pattern-Maker Study
17 slides and outline

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University
Slides with outline, illustrating exposures and results of study on elevated risk of colon cancer in automobile pattern-makers. Slides include workplace photograph, outline and conclusions of study.

Carcinogenesis
21 slides, no text, 1997.

Tee Guidotti, MD, MPH, University of Alberta, Canada
Shows the characteristics of cancer, early and recent theories concerning cancer, steps in treating chemically and biologically, and dietary and genetic predisposing factors.

Challenges in Medical Surveillance for Hazardous Waste Workers
48 slides with script.

Mark Upfal, MD, Wayne State University
Comprehensive overview of scientific and practical issues encountered in conducting medical surveillance for hazardous waste workers. Includes handout, script and key citations.

Childhood Lead Poisoning
65 slides with a script.

Ezatollah Keyvan, MD, Maryland Department of the Environment
Overview of the issues of childhood lead poisoning, including causes, prevention, and treatment.

Coal Mining
7 slides (3 are underground work scene), no text

Karen Mulloy, D.O., MSCH, Marshall University
Excellent slides of typical coal mining work scenes.

Computer Room Clean
8 slides, no text.

Stephen McCurdy, MD, MPH, University of California -Davis
Misc. slides of computer work scenes.

Cumulative Trauma Disorders & Ergonomics
80 slides with script

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Introductory talk for physicians and medical students with script, handout, and citations, addressing typical cumulative trauma disorders, causes, prevention, with focus on basic ergonomic approaches. Limited information on specific therapies.

Current Issues in Air Quality
15 slides, no text, 1997.

Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH, University of Alberta, Canada
Includes slides illustrating current health issues and characteristics relating to PM 2.5 and ozone.

Cyanide Poisoning, Acute & Chronic
27 slides and outline.

Lorne Garretson, MD, Medical Toxicologist. Emory University.
Includes slides listing symptoms, routes of exposure, sources of exposure, toxic effects and methods of diagnosis.

Diisocyanate-induced Effects on the Respiratory System
35 slides and accompanying article, 1999

Julia Klees, MD, MPH and M. Gerald Ott, PhD, BASF Corporation.
Slide presentation developed to accompany article from Occupational Medicine, State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 14, No. 4, October-December 1999. Philadelphia, Hanley & Belfus, Inc.

Doc, I’m Exposed to Chemicals
15 slides, an outline, and slide descriptions, 1999.

Linda Frazier, MD, MPH, University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita
This presentation was developed to assist clinicians to counsel individuals who are concerned about chemical exposures

Electronics Equipment Assembly
5 slides and slide descriptions

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Five workplace slides illustrating typical electronics assembly operations.

Endocrine Disruptors : A New Public Health Problem?
48 slides with outline, text and bibliography, 1997.

Gina M. Solomon, MD, MPH, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA.
Recent scientific research indicates that some pesticides and industrial chemicals can interfere with normal hormonal functions in cell systems, lab animals, wildlife and some human sub-populations. Preliminary evidence suggests that endocrine disruption may be quite different from traditional toxicological effects. These differences from traditional toxicology may require new ways of testing and regulating chemicals.

Environmental Health and Primary Care
48 slides and outline with case study

Rose Goldman, MD, MPH & Daniel Brooks, MPH, Cambridge Hospital
Grand rounds medical seminar presentation including slides, outline, case study. Illustrates approach for primary care physician to environmental health problem of ground water contamination with gasoline by excellent combination of photographic and chart slides, interactive program encouraging audience participation.

Epidemiology and Occupational Medicine
19 slides with script

Karen Mulloy, DO, MSCH, Marshall University
Includes detailed script for grand rounds resident lecture. Good references and handout, excellent introduction to scientific issues, followed by case examples including lung cancer.

Evaluation of the Worker with Suspected Occupational Lung Disease
17 slides, no script, 1998.

Tee Guidotti, MD, MPH, University of Alberta, Canada
Shows the major types of occupational lung disease, and the medical approach and evaluation of the injured worker. It also looks at structure, function, causation, prognosis, treatment and prevention factors in occupational disease.

Fine Particulates in Air Quality
17 slides, no text, 1997.

Tee Guidotti, MD, MPH, University of Alberta, Canada
Describes air quality issues, the origins of concern, characteristics of PM25 and proposed particulate standards.

Foundry Workplace Walk-through
17 slides and slide descriptions

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Illustration of workplace walk-through using schematic and workplace slides from foundry.

Hazards in Auto Body Shops
19 slides and script

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Script accompanying workplace photographs; hazards discussed in more detail in " Auto Body Repair: Recognizing and Controlling Health and Safety Hazards " a training manual also available through the AOEC lending library.

Health Care Products Manufacturing-Repetitive Trauma Disorders
7 slides & script

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Script, accompanying workplace photographs of manufacturing site where workers are at risk of several cumulative trauma disorders including carpal tunnel syndrome and lateral epicondylitis.

Health Hazards of the Cloth Printing Industry
19 slides and script.

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH. and Jay Himmelstein, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Script, outline , with photographs of cloth printing, with some emphasis on risk of cloth printers for bladder cancer.

Health Hazards of Electroplating
47 slides and script

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Outline with comprehensive review of hazards encountered in electroplating operations. Discussed in more detail in "Metal Finishing: Recognizing and Controlling Health and Safety Hazards" a training manual also available through the AOEC lending library.

Health Effects of Trichloroethylene and Tetrachloroethylene
19 slides and outline

Eddy Bresnitz, MD, MS., Medical College of Pennsylvania
A talk to the Berks County Medical Society, Pennsylvania.

Hospital Employee Health
32 slides, no script

William Patterson, MD, Boston University
Slides review applicable OSHA standards to typical health care setting including lab safety, blood borne infectious diseases, right-to-know ethylene oxide, biological and physical health risk.

Identifying Occupational and Environmental Disease
44 slides and outline

James Blessman, MD, MPH., Wayne State University
A talk given to Illinois Dept. of Health, Belleville Hospital, Belleville, IL, October 1991.

Immune Mechanisms in Occupational Medicine: Principles of Toxicology
20 slides, no script

Tee Guidotti, MD, MPH University of Alberta, Canada.
Looks at the role of immune mechanisms, the essential principles and factors influencing the immune response and studies B cells, T cells and other killer cells and immunoglobulins.

Indoor Air Pollution: Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Radon and Sick Buildings
21 Slides and script

Charles Sweet, MD., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Outline with bibliography.

Introduction to Occupational Medicine
39 slides, no script, 1998,

Tee Guidotti, MD, MPH, University of Alberta, Canada.
Comprehensive study of the field , including a look at occupational disorders and injuries, including the psychological aspects, occupational hazards, and health and safety programs. The module also includes information regarding aspects of fitness-to-work evaluations, such as objectives, components, judgments and issues.

Lead: Sources of Occupational Exposure, Clinical Toxicology & Control
27 slides, no script, 1998.

University of Alberta, Occ. Health Program
Slides trace the history and sources of lead exposure, present and future, indicate the physical and neurological manifestations and management of toxicity, the toxicokinetics of lead.

Men and Women Working
20 slides from Earl Dotter

Karen Mulloy, DO, MSCH, Marshall University
Slides from Earl Dotter including typical work scenes from paper mill, farm related work, aerial spraying of pesticides, illustrating hazards and working conditions.

Metal Fabrication and Welding
15 slides with titles

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Includes outline, workplace slides illustrating typical scenes in welding shops.

Miscellaneous Workplace
9 slides with titles

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Typical scenes from biotechnology, semiconductor manufacturer, forging, machining, glass bottle manufacturing, auto body manufacturing and stone cutting.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
36 slides and outline with references and two case studies

Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH., Emory University
A grand rounds presentation to the Medical College, Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

Occupational Asthma
44 slides, 1997

Susan Righi, MD, MPH, Eastern New York Occupational Health Program
Includes methods of diagnosis, causes, management, and prevention of occupational asthma.

Occupational Back Pain: Common Management Issues
27 slides and outline

Linda Frazier, MD
Outline with references.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine
39 slides and outline

Roy L. DeHart, MD, MPH
An overview of the profession of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Funded by a grant from ACOEM

Occupational and Environmental Skin Disorders Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
81 slides and outline

Rosemary Sokas, MD, MPH; Daniel Hogan, MD, MPH; Jose Morales, MD, George Washington University
Slides with script designed to teach the clinician to evaluate, treat, prevent, and palliate skin disease.

Occupational Health, OSHA Standards
20 slides

William Patterson, MD, Boston University
Slides without script of charts illustrating basic elements of general duty, right-to-know, record-keeping, respiratory protection standards.

Occupational History and Primary Care
11 slides, no text

Willliam Patterson, MD, Boston University

Occupational Lung Disease
98 slides with storyboard

Mark Upfal, MD, MPH, Wayne State University
Grand rounds type talk with photographs, graphs, charts, handout, outline and script. No citations or references. Well organized talk covering all aspects of work-related lung disease.

Occupational Medicine: 10 Leading Work-Related Diseases and Injuries (1982)
12 slides, no script

Karen Mulloy, DO, MSCH., Marshall University
Slides illustrate priorities in NIOSH list.

Occupational Medicine: An Introduction for Family Practitioners
38 slides with script & student handouts.

Karen Mulloy, DO, MSCH, Marshall University
Excellent introductory talk, including script, handouts and citations.

Occupational Medicine: An Introduction
26 slides plus lecture with worksheet and pre & post test

James Cone, MD and Robin Dewey, MPH.
Introductory workshop including lecture outline, student worksheet, pre and post tests, suited to medical students, providing 1 to 2 hours of material covering a variety of topics.

OSHA - Miscellaneous Slides
11 slides and script

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Includes script, very basic overview of several features of the occupational safety and health act.

PCBs Toxicity
38 slides and case study

Richard Weinstein, MD

Pleural Abnormalities-Pipefitter and Boilermaker Study
8 slides and outline

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University
Includes outline, workplace photographs.

Pulmonary Asbestosis
15 slides and outline.

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University
Includes outline, x-ray photographs.

Radon Toxicity
78 slides and monograph.

Mark Upfal, MD
Script, monograph, covers exposures, associated illness, and remediation methods; excellent grand rounds or medical seminar presentation.

Reproductive Hazards: Grand Rounds
29 slides with outline

Laura Welch, MD, George Washington University
Grand rounds presentation with outline, addressing several aspects of reproductive hazards in the workplace.

Taking an Exposure History for Nurses
25 slides.

Gail Buckler, RN, COHN. EOHSI. Slides from presentation made to NSNA Spring 1996.
Text slides with common exposures, routes of exposure, and examples of common questions to be included in history. For use by those familiar with teaching exposure histories.

To Eliminate Silicosis, What One Country Has Done and Will Do
15 slides, no text, 1997.

University of Alberta, Canada, Occupational Health Program
Slides illustrate reasons for concern over silicosis, the establishment of the Alberta Fibrosis Program, its history accomplishments and demise, and Canada’s current approach to combating silicosis.

Trench and Excavation Cave-In
24 slides with outline, 1997.

Anthony Suruda, MD, MPH. University of Utah
Identifies the principal safety hazard in trenches and excavations. Describes methods of preventing injury.

Trichloroethylene Toxicity
10 slides with ATSDR document on the subject.

William Patterson, MD, MPH, New England Health Center, Wilmington, MA
Gives the physical properties, possible consumer products, occupational exposures, the health effects, and the standards and regulations for this chemical.

Vibration/VWF
9 slides, no text

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University

Work Scenes-Miscellaneous
96 slides, no text

Ray Demers, MD, Wayne State University
Illustrates a wide variety of workplaces in manufacturing, technology and construction industries.