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<p><font class="righthand"><b>Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer
Medical Screening Program</b></p>
<p> This collection includes web pages and flyers made available on-line and as
printed flyers by several departments of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
in New York City soon after the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks.</p>
<p> The Community and Preventative Medicine Program (CPM) was one of the first
medical programs to respond to the WTC disaster. The CPM compiled information
to help educate volunteers, rescue workers and others about ways to avoid possibly
hazardous exposures to materials released by the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Students also rushed to help victims of the WTC collapse; one page here documents
their efforts. Meanwhile the Psychiatry Department's Traumatic Stress Studies
Program offered treatment to WTC survivors as well as information for mental
health professionals on their web pages.This collection also includes materials
from the comprehensive Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, launched
in July, 2002 with the hospital's Center for Occupational and Environmental
Medicine to track and treat the long-term health effects which may arise from
these exposures.</p>
<p> <b>About the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program</b></p>
<p> The World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program is a
comprehensive medical evaluation program to provide free and confidential medical
exams, referrals for medical care, and occupational health education for the
8,500 workers and volunteers who provided rescue, recovery, debris removal and
sifting, and restoration of vital support services at the World Trade Center
and Staten Island landfill sites. The program is directed by the Mount Sinai
Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, in partnership with the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, with medical examinations and related services provided
by a consortium of occupational medicine providers. Goals of the program include:
identifying individuals who sustained hazardous exposures during their work
at the WTC and landfill sites, providing medical screening and referrals for
medical care for those with persistent problems, educating workers and volunteers
about the possible risks to their health from their exposures and about services
and benefits available to them, and long-term monitoring to identify WTC-related
conditions which may develop later.</p>
<p> For more information visit the Screening Program's Web site, <a href="www.wtcexams.org">www.wtcexams.org</a>
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Lessons Learned: Worker Health and Safety Since September 11, 2001
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[pdf document, Dr. Philip Landrigan, M.D., MSC , American Journal Of Industrial Medicine, 42:530 531, 2002] Introduction by Dr. Philip Landrigan to a series of brief reports by public health workers and researchers about what they have learned so far about the strengths and weakness of the U.S. public health system from the responses to 9/11/01 at the WTC. The issue also includes a summary of recommended approaches to exposure problems. The reports are based on presentations by scientists, industrial hygienists, representatives of the Fire Department of New York, and others involved in the process of rescue and recovery.
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE: Rachel Smaltz, STM New Media Department: rsmaltz@wiley.com or Philip J.Landrigan,Editor in Chief, phil.landrigan@mssm.edu