Joseph LaDou

Joseph LaDou (born 1938) is an occupational and environmental medicine physician and founding editor of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health.^[1] From 1992 to 2005, he was director of the International Center for Occupational Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is currently a Clinical Professor Emeritus at the University of California-San Francisco.

Career

From 1983 to 2002, in addition to his other responsibilities, LaDou was Director, Advances in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a continuing medical education course that trained more than 3,000 physicians (500 from developing countries) in occupational medicine.

LaDou's study of the global migration of hazardous industries has led to efforts to control occupational and environmental hazards. As one example, his study of asbestos in developing countries led to a call for an international ban on asbestos mining and use in commercial products.

Works

Among LaDou's notable publications:

• LaDou, Joseph, ed. 1986. Special Issue on "The Microelectronics Industry," State of the Art Reviews: Occupational Medicine 1(1, January–March). Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus.
• LaDou, Joseph. 2003. "International Occupational Health," International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 206:303-313.
• LaDou, Joseph. 2004. "The Asbestos Cancer Epidemic", Environmental Health Perspectives 112(3):285-90.
• LaDou, Joseph. 2006. "Occupational Medicine in the United States: A Proposal to Abolish Workers’ Compensation and Reestablish the Public Health Model," International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 12(2):154-168.
• LaDou, Joseph, and John C. Bailar III. 2007. "Cancer and Reproductive Risks in the Semiconductor Industry," International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 13(4):376-385.
• LaDou, Joseph, and Sandra Lovegrove. 2008. "Electronics Waste Export," International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 14(1):1-10.
• LaDou, Joseph. 2010. "Worker's Compensation in the United States: Cost Shifting and Inequities in a Dysfunctional System," New Solutions 20(3):291-302.
• LaDou, Joseph. 2011. "The European Influence on Workers’ Compensation Reform in the United States", Environmental Health 10(1):103.
• LaDou, Joseph. 2012. "Workers’ Compensation Reform," Int J Occup Environ Health 18(2): 92-5.
• LaDou, Joseph, and Robert J. Harrison, eds. 2014. Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5th ed. McGraw-Hill Medical, New York. ISBN 978-0071808156

Honors

• Ramazzini Award, conferred by the Collegium Ramazzini, Carpi, Italy, for achievements in the field of occupational medicine, 1998
• Harriet Hardy Award, New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2005

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