Biographical
Sketch
Training:
Fellow (Health Professional), FRCPC Occupational
Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1988
Master
of Health Science Occupational Health, University of Toronto, 1981
Doctor
of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1977
University
Appointments
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Hospital
Appointments
Department Chair/Head, St. Michael's Hospital, Occupational
& Environmental Health
Clinical
Activities
Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine
Dermatology
Occupational Diseases
Current
Grant Support
Silverman FS, Holness DL. Research Program in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Injury. National Sanitarium Association – $150,000.
Holness DL, (PI) Corey P, House R, Liss G, Purdham J, Sass‑Kortsak A, Scott J, Silverman F, Tarlo S, Verma D. Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease, WSIB, $400,000.
Holness DL, Liss G, Tarlo S, Purdham J, Silverman F, Kudla I. Workplace sensitizers: exploration of skin and lung routes of exposure, responses and prevention practices: preliminary studies. AllerGen, $25,000.
To T, Holness DL, Lougheed D, Cicutto L, Haines T. A pilot implementation and evaluation of an occupational asthma surveillance system for Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care – $185,000.
Liss GM, Holness DL, Pratt M, Sasseville D, Tarlo SM. Key exposures and industries causing work-related contact dermatitis. WSIB, $54,500.
Scott JA, Sass-Kortsak AM, Krajden S, McGeer A, Holness DL. Biophysical characteristics of influenza bioaerosols in health care institutions. WSIB, $129,000.
Nichol K, Holness DL. The organizational, environmental and individual fators that influence nurses’ decisions to use facial protection to prevent occupational transmission of infectious respiratory illness in acute care hospitals. Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease. $10,000.
Holness DL. Nichol K, Kudla I. Joint health and safety committees in Ontario acute care hospitals: form and function. Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease. $10,000.
Holness DL, Kudla I, Liss GM, Hoffstein V, Shargall Y. Identifying possible work-related lung cancer in the clinical setting – getting started. Worksafe BC, $29,897.
Selected Recent Publications
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