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    Jonathan Borak, MD

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    Biography

    Jonathan Borak is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He received his BA with Honors from Amherst College and earned his MD at New York University. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital, was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at McGill University, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Internal Medicine at Yale University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Toxicology and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences.

    Dr. Borak is a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, and Occupational Medicine. He served for ten years as Chair of the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and has received numerous awards from ACOEM including the Adolph G. Kammer Merit in Authorship Award, the Robert A. Kehoe Award of Merit Recognition, and the George H. Gerchman Memorial Prize. He has also received the Harriet Hardy Award of the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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    Education & Training

    MD
    New York University (1972)
    BA
    Amherst College (1968)
    Fellow
    American College of Physicians
    Fellow
    American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    Fellow
    Royal College of Physicians (Canada)

    Research

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    Dr. Borak’s research interests are in the areas of environmental and industrial toxicology, biological and clinical surveillance of toxic exposures, environmental and workplace exposure assessments, and the epidemiology of roxic exposures. Recent research projects have focused on issues such as the assessment of occupational exposures to elemental mercury, historical reconstructions of silica particulate exposures, respiratory sensitization by reactive monomers, and the clinical assessment of beryllium-related diseases. For further information on Dr. Borak and his research, please see www.jborak.com.

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    Chemicals and Drugs

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    Frequent collaborators of Jonathan Borak's published research.

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