Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
The Department of Environmental Health and the Harvard Chan Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health invite you to the next Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds on October 16, 2026.
Title: Recognizing Occupational Disorders: A Case-Based Approach to Key Clinical Principles
Speaker: Hariprasad Korsapati, MD, PhD, OEM Resident
Discussant: Oyebode (Bode) Taiwo, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, 3M
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this Grand Rounds, participants will be able to:
- Recognize clinical features that may suggest an occupational illness or injury.
- Elicit a focused occupational and environmental history to assess potential work-related exposures.
- Apply a structured approach to evaluating causation between workplace exposures and clinical findings.
- Discuss how case-based analysis can inform prevention strategies and workplace health interventions.
Location:
- In person: 502 Kresge, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
- Remote: via Zoom (please RSVP for Zoom below)
RSVP: Please click here to register.
CMEs for US licensed physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Chan Education and Research Center. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designates this live activity for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Speaker Information
Hariprasad Korsapati
Oyebode (Bode) Taiwo
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IID Seminar Series – Erica Fuhrmeister
Title Talk
“TBC“
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
Speaker Information
Erica Fuhrmeister
Dr. Erica Fuhrmeister is Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. She received her BS in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her MS and PhD in environmental engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Fuhrmeister is interested in understanding environmental transmission pathways of pathogens, particularly enteric pathogens in low- and middle-income countries. As part of her postdoctoral work, she investigated the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes between humans, animals and the environment in Nairobi, Kenya, using metagenomics. In response to COVID-19, she has worked with other researchers to survey high-touch surfaces in the community for SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
For additional details about my research, please see my lab website.
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