page_title: Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
hierarchical_section_title: Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
caption_attribution_description: English: Logo for Mount Sinai's Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
context_page_description: The Mount Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health are a set of occupational and environmental health clinics that focus on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of workplace injuries and illnesses. Significant injuries and illnesses that are treated at the clinical centers include occupational lung cancers, manganese/silica/lead exposures, and asbestos-related illness, which was the career-long research of Dr. Irving Selikoff, the centers' inaugural director. The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health's multidisciplinary health care team includes physicians, nurse practitioners, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, social workers, and benefits specialists, who are "leaders in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of workplace
  injuries and illnesses," and provide comprehensive patient-centered services in New York City and Lower Hudson Valley. The clinical centers are located within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai under the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
  The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health also partner with employers and unions to assess and reduce risk factors in all work environments.
context_section_description: The Mount Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health are a set of occupational and environmental health clinics that focus on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of workplace injuries and illnesses. Significant injuries and illnesses that are treated at the clinical centers include (yet are not limited to) occupational lung cancers, manganese/silica/lead exposures, and asbestos-related illness, which was the career-long research of Dr. Irving Selikoff, the centers' inaugural director. The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health's multidisciplinary health care team includes physicians, nurse practitioners, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, social workers, and benefits specialists, who are "leaders in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of workplace 
  injuries and illnesses," and provide comprehensive patient-centered services in New York City and Lower Hudson Valley. The clinical centers are located within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai under the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
  The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health also partner with employers and unions to assess and reduce risk factors in all work environments. Their aim is to establish comprehensive occupational health and safety programs designed to encourage a safe, healthful, and productive workplace. The centers participate in and host events, both for national and international audiences, including the World Trade Health Program Symposium of 2016, an annual Manganese Conference, and the 25th Occupational Health Clinic Network to discuss international workplace health. With a focus on prevention, the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health strive to keep workers healthy and their workplaces safe.
  The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is also home to the New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center. The research center offers programs in Occupational Medicine, Industrial Hygiene, as well as continuing education, referring patients in need of treatment or services, and those of the general population interested in occupational health and safety, to the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health.
caption: Primary Logo for the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
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