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Department of Community Medicine Chair, Department of Community Medicine 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Environmental Medical Service from 1986 to 1992, and Director of the Professional Occupational Health Branch, United States Navy Environmental Health Center, in Norfolk, VA, from 1983 to 1986. A fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the American College of Physicians, he has received numerous awards, including the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 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. He currently serves as the chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Environmental Health Center/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Ducatman's research is in neurotoxicity, lung toxicity, disease clustering, quality assurance in medical surveillance, and career opportunities of environmental health physicians. For a decade, Dr. Ducatman has used insurance data to seek public health improvements to worker health. |
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Alan Ducatman, MD, MSc