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Stephen M. Levin (Oct. 16, 1941- February 7, 2012) was the Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a Professor of Occupational Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Co-Director of the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMu-lNHNt-o )〕 A graduate of Wesleyan University and then New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Levin was born and raised in Philadelphia to working class parents—his father a carpenter, his mother a hospital worker. He was recognized world-wide as a leader in the field of Occupational Medicine, particularly due to his work on behalf of 9/11 workers and those injured by asbestos in the town of Libby, Montana.〔(Obituary, Stephen Levin, The Lancet, published March 31, 2012 )〕 ==Career== Dr. Levin was a 1967 graduate of the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Levin then spent a decade practicing general medicine in the working class town of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.〔 Following this formative experience, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine. Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011. Dr. Levin became Medical Director of the Mount Sinai Selikoff Center in 1987 . He was active in the Occupational Medicine teaching program for medical students and residents. His research interests focused on asbestos-related disease, other occupational lung diseases and heavy metal toxicity. *Dr. Levin served as a consultant to the New York State, New Jersey, and New York City Departments of Health on the health hazards of environmental pollutants. *In the 1990s, Dr. Levin helped ensure that federal and New York State authorities required the provision of respirators and vacuum hoses to protect bridge workers from lead poisoning〔(NIOSH Publication: Request for Assistance in Preventing Lead Poisoning in Construction Workers )〕 *In 2000 and 2004, Dr. Levin's research and testimony helped convict Joseph Thorn and father and son Alexander and Raul Salvagno, owners of asbestos abatement companies in New York. The Salvagnos secretly co-owned a lab that produced 75,000 fraudulent laboratory analysis results on asbestos levels. *Dr. Levin was one of the two primary investigators for a project on asbestos exposure among electrical power generation workers in Puerto Rico. *Dr. Levin was also the primary investigator for a project on Libby, Montana, a mining town where thousands of workers and residents had been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore.〔(Center for Asbestos Related Disease, Libby Montana )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen M. Levin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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