Indoor Air Pollutants Affecting Child Health
Editor: Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FACMT
Authors:
Elizabeth Flynn, MD
Paul Matz, MD
Alan Woolf, MD
Robert Wright, MD, MPH
A project of the American College of Medical Toxicology,
funded by a Cooperative Agreement with the
U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Submitted: November, 2000
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Biosketches
Dr. Elizabeth Flynn received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School
in Boston, and has commenced her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital,
Boston.
Dr. Paul Matz received his medical degree from the State University of New york
at Buffalo. He completed his pediatrics residency training at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia and is currently in fellowship training at Hasbro
Children’s Hospital and Brown University Medical School, Providence, Rhode
Island.
Dr. Alan Woolf is an associate professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical
School, Boston, Massachusetts and a senior associate in medicine at Children’s
Hospital, Boston. Dr. Woolf is the Director of the Program in Clinical Toxicology
at Children’s Hospital and one of two Co-Directors of the Pediatric Environmental
Health Subspecialty Unit at Children’s Hospital. He is also the Director of the
Regional Poison control and Prevention Center Serving Massachusetts and
Rhode Island.
Dr. Robert Wright is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Brown University
Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island and a lecturer in medicine at The
Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He
received his medical degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and
completed his pediatrics residency at Northwestern University School of
Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He completed fellowships in both pediatric
emergency medicine (Hasbro Children’s hospital, Providence, RI) and medical
toxicology (Children’s Hospital, Boston) and also has a master’s degree in public
health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Acknowledgements:
The authors acknowledge the assistance of Mr. Kevin Franck