The 2006/7 Rutgers Italian Studies Annual Faculty Lecture:

Paul Lioy, "Bernadino Ramazzini and his Legacy in Occupational and
Environmental Medicine"

5 PM THURSDAY
8 MARCH 2007

GEOLOGY HALL
(Next to Old Queen's)
85 SOMERSET STREET
RUTGERS-NEW BRUNSWICK

Free and open to the public; reception to follow.

The Italian physician Bernadino Ramazzini (1633-1714), an early advocate of protective health measures for workers, is considered the founder of occupational medicine.

Paul Lioy is Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Deputy Director of the Rutgers/UMDNJ Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI). In 1999 he was elected as Fellow to the Collegium Ramazzini (based in Carpi, Italy).

Presented by the Rutgers University Italian Studies Program and the NJ Italian and Italian America