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Mount Sinai Mount Sinai, also known as Jabal Musa (), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the Mount Sinai (Bible), biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred scriptures of the thre ...

Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health are a set of occupational and environmental health clinics that focus on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of workplace injuries and illnesses. Significant injuries and illnesses that are treated at the clinical centers include (yet are not limited to) occupational lung cancers, manganese/silica/lead exposures, and asbestos-related illness, which was the career-long research of Dr. Irving Selikoff, the centers' inaugural director. The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health's multidisciplinary health care team includes physicians, nurse practitioners, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, social workers, and benefits specialists, who are "leaders in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of workplace injuries and illnesses," and provide comprehensive patient-centered services in New York City and Lower Hudson Valley. The clinical centers are located within the

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sina ...

under the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health also partner with employers and unions to assess and reduce risk factors in all work environments. Their aim is to establish comprehensive occupational health and safety programs designed to encourage a safe, healthful, and productive workplace. The centers participate in and host events, both for national and international audiences, including the World Trade Health Program Symposium of 2016, an annual Manganese Conference, and the 25t
Occupational Health Clinic Network
to discuss international workplace health. With a focus on prevention, the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health strive to keep workers healthy and their workplaces safe. The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the

, is also home to the New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center. The research center offers programs in

Occupational Medicine Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of Preventative Medicine that specializes in the prevention and treatment of work-related ill ...

Industrial Hygiene Occupational hygiene or industrial hygiene (IH) is the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation (ARECC) of protection from risks associated with exposures to hazards in, or arising from, the workplace that may result in ...

, as well as continuing education, referring patients in need of treatment or services, and those of the general population interested in

occupational health and safety Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e., while performing duties required by one's occupation). OSH is re ...

, to the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health.

History

Dr. Irving Selikoff founded and became the director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Division of The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 1966, which at the time was the United States' first hospital division dedicated to the field of occupational health and safety. His work on asbestos and the conditions workers were exposed to on their jobs also contributed to the creation of the

Occupational Safety and Health Administration The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA; ) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. The United States Congress established ...

(OSHA), as well as the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH). After Selikoff's death, the division expanded to include the "Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine," which today is named the "Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health".

World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence

The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health are also a designated "Clinical Center of Excellence" under the World Trade Center Health Program. This program was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (Zadroga Act) and is administered by the

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, ) is the List of United States federal agencies, United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related occ ...

(NIOSH) within the federal

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the National public health institutes, national public health agency of the United States. It is a Federal agencies of the United States, United States federal agency under the United S ...

. The Zadroga Act provides free medical monitoring, treatment, mental health services, and benefits counseling for

9/11 The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...

responders and volunteers. The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health at The

Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan) Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. It is located in East Harlem in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the eastern border of Central Park stretching along Madis ...

is home to the largest World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence (CCE) in the New York/New Jersey region. In 2015 the United States Congress passed a reformed version of the Zadroga Act, which provides lifetime health benefits for the 9/11 first responders and victims. Research conducted on 9/11 first responders continues to show the need for Medical Screening Programs in the event of disasters.

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