Dr. Alan Ducatman received his MD from Wayne State University, in Detroit, MI and his MS in Environmental Health from City University of New York - Hunter College and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He trained at Brown University and the Mayo Clinic, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.

Before coming to WVU, he served as the Director of the MIT's Environmental Medical Service from 1986-1992, and Director of the Professional Occupational Health Branch, United States Navy Environmental Health Center, in Norfolk, VA.

A fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the American College of Physicians, he has received numerous awards including the Robert J. Hilker Lectureship Award in 1993, and the Harriet Hardy Highest Ideals Award of the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 1997. Dr. Ducatman led the successful effort to include Environmental Medicine as a central function of his professional society. He has served as chair, Residency Review Committee in Preventive Medicine, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Ducatman's research is in neurotoxicity, lung toxicity, disease clustering, quality assurance in medical surveillance, and career opportunities of environmental health physicians.