Jonathan Samet  MD
Johns Hopkins Univ
Bloomberg Sch of Public Hlth
615 N. Wolfe St.
Baltimore, MD 21205
jsamet@jhsph.edu
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Biosketch
Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., M.S. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.  Dr. Samet received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College, an M.D. degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and a Master of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.  He is trained as a clinician in the specialty of internal medicine and in the subspecialty of pulmonary diseases.  From 1978 through 1994, he was a member of the Department of Medicine at The University of New Mexico School of Medicine where most recently he was Professor and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division in the Department of Medicine.  At the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, he is Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control and Co-Director of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute.  His research has addressed the effects of inhaled pollutants in the general environment and in the workplace.  He has written widely on the health effects of active and passive smoking and served as Consultant Editor and Senior Editor for Reports of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health.  He has served on the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and was Chairman of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation Committee VI of the National Research Council.  He is presently Chairman of the National Research Council’s Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter.  He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.  He provided testimony for the Plaintiffs in the lawsuit brought by the state of Minnesota and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota against the tobacco industry and also in the Engle class action lawsuit.

Presentation Title: Particulates, respiratory disease & air quality.