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Jeffrey L. Levin, MD, MSPH, FACOEM is Professor and Chair of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Department of Occupational Health Sciences at The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. He completed his internal medicine training at the University of Missouri following which he pursued a Master of Science Degree in Public Health and post-graduate training in occupational medicine at the University of Kentucky.

He is board-certified in both internal medicine and occupational medicine. He has been in the field of occupational medicine for 20 years and has lectured widely on a variety of occupational health topics both nationally and internationally. His research interests include occupational respiratory disease and occupational health in the commercial fishing trades.

Dr. Levin is:

Director of the Texas Institute of Occupational Safety & Health®
Director of the NIOSH Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education
Co-Director for the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health
Program Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency Program at UTHCT.

He is past-President of the Texas College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (formerly the Texas Occupational Medical Association), the Texas component of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Levin was awarded the Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professorship of Occupational Health Sciences in 1999. He is a member of the Texas Medical Association Council on Public Health.

Sharon Cooper, Ph.D.

Sylvia Partida, M.S.

Deborah Helitzer, Sc.D.

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