The Program is funded by Contract No. All individual results of this medical screening program are confidential and will not be shared with the Department of Energy or any other party without the individual participant's written consent. He was International Vice President of the OCAW from 1983 - 91. He also served as staff attorney and assistants to two presidents. He began working in an oil refinery in Kansas in 1970 and was elected local president in 1972.
Wages has a long history of activism in health and safety.
He supervised health and safety policy development, and was responsible for the Atomic Energy Sector of the Union. He is currently a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council where he represents PACE on the health and safety committee. Steven Markowitz, MD, Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director Dr. Markowitz is an epidemiologist and physician specializing in occupational and environmental medicine. He is Professor of Community Health and Social Medicine at the City University of New York Medical School. He is also Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Associate Director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College, City University of New York.