BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

NAME

Goldberg, Mark

POSITION TITLE

Assoicate Professor, Urban Public Health

A.   Positions and Honors

 

Positions and Employment

1981-82     Research Assistant, Mount Sinai School of  Medicine, NYC

1982-83     Health & Safety Director, Director's Guild of America, NYC

1983-86     Industrial Hygienist, U.S. Dept. of Labor – OSHA, Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.

1986-87     Senior Industrial Hygienist, New York University Medical Center, NYC

1987-89     Associate Staff Analyst, New York City Department  of Health

1992-      Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dept of Community and Prev.   Medicine, NYC

1990-   Associate Professor, Urban Public Health, Hunter College CUNY, NYC

 

Professional Memberships

1982 -     Member, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Construction Committee

1994 -  Construction Committee, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists

 

Honors

1961-62     Fellow, Swiss Friends of the U.S.A., University of Bern, Switzerland

1966-67     Fulbright Fellow, University of Tubingen, Germany

1981-82     Trainee, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

 

 

 

B.  Peer-Reviewed Publications

1.      S.M. Rappaport. M. Goldberg, P. Susi, and R.F. Herrick, Exposure to Respirable Silica in the U.S. Construction Industry.  Annals of Occupational Hygiene. 47: 111-122 (2003)

2.      M. Goldberg, N. Clark, S. Levin,  N. Zuckerman, and J. Doucette, An Assessment of Lead  Controls for Torch Cutting and Rivet Removal on Steel Structures.  Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.  15(5):445-452 (2000).

3.      S. Levin, M. Goldberg, Clinical Evaluation and Management of Lead-Exposed Construction Workers, American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 37:23-43 (2000).

4.      P. Susi, M. Goldberg, E. Stafford, A Task Based Exposure Assessment Model (T-BEAM) for Assessment of Metal Fume Exposures During Welding and Thermal Cutting,  Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 15(1): 26-38 (2000).

5.      Goldberg, M. & Nagin, D., “Principles of Industrial Hygiene.”  In Bowler, R. & Cone, J. (Eds.). Occupational Medicine Secrets.  Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus,  1999.

6.      M. Goldberg,  S. Levin,  J. Doucette, G. Griffin, A Task-Based Approach to Assessing Lead

Exposure Among Ironworkers Engaged in Bridge Rehabilitation, American Journal of Industrial Medicine 31:310-318 (1997).

7.      S. Levin, M. Goldberg,  J. Doucette, The Effect of the OSHA Lead Exposure in Construction Standard on Blood Lead Levels among Ironworkers Employed in Bridge Rehabilitation,  American Journal of Industrial Medicine 31:303-309 (1997).

8.      E. Johanning, M. Goldberg, R. Kim, Asbestos Hazard Evaluation in South Korean Textile Production, The International Journal of Health Services, 24(1), 1994.

9.      E. Johanning, P. Morey, M. Goldberg, "Remedial Techniques and Medical Surveillance Guidelines for the Handling of Toxigenic Stachybotrys atra", in:  Proceedings of the Indoor Air '93 Conference.  Helsinki.

10.    Goldberg M, Klitzman S, Payne JL, Nadig RJ, McGrane JA and Goodman AK: Mercury exposure from the repair of blood pressure machines in medical facilities, Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 5(9): 604-10, 1990.

 

 

Research Support

CDC/DHHS Cooperative Agreement No. U60/CCU317202  Goldberg (PI)                     7/1/99-6/30/03

A Blueprint for Integrating Health Hazard Control Programs into Infrastructure Rehabilitation: An Intervention Research Project

This study developed a series of practical guides to assist construction contractors manage health hazard control programs on a day-to-day basis. 

 

CDC/DHHS Cooperative Agreement No. U02/CCU312014  Goldberg (PI)              7/1/95-6/30/03 Assessment Engineering of Technologies in the Construction Industry to Control Lead Exposure to Bridge Rehabilitation Workers

This study assessed control technology to reduce worker exposure to lead and silica during bridge and highway construction.

 


 

Center to Protect Workers' Rights,                                           Goldberg (PI)                           1998-99

Silica Exposure Assessment and Control

This was a small study to assess exposures to workers engaged in concrete drilling and chipping, and to investigate the availability of control technology.

 

Center to Protect Workers’ Rights                                            Goldberg (PI)                           1995-96

Solvent exposure and control for metal polishers 

This study investigated the use of substitute products to clean and polish metal surfaces in elevators and buildings in order to reduce high exposures to polishers working in enclosed spaces.