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Dr.
Samet is Professor and Chairman of the Department
of Epidemiology of the Johns Hopkins University School
of Hygiene and 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. In
October, 2000, Dr. Samet was installed as the first
Jacob and Ruth Fabrikant Professor of Health, Risk,
and Society at the Johns Hopkins University. |
